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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem — and the rest of AI is making the same mistake

August 27, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Google’s Wednesday announcement touting new Gemini Live voice features came with a promise: “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” But the company’s own app design undercuts that message. In the Gemini app, users now deal with between three separately branded features — chat, […]

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Anthropic locks in $45B Nscale compute deal to fuel AI race against OpenAI

August 27, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Anthropic has signed a deal to rent approximately $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, according to a source familiar with the agreement. The six-year deal, first reported by Bloomberg, will draw computing power from Nscale’s flagship data center in West Virginia and is expected to begin powering Anthropic’s services […]

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Amazon triples Nvidia GPU order to 2 million chips as AI demand surges

August 27, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Amazon and Nvidia deepened their partnership Wednesday, with the two companies announcing an expanded deal that adds 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon initially agreed to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia […]

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Why OpenAI’s executive exodus is accelerating — and what it signals before its IPO

August 26, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI has lost more than a dozen executives since the start of 2026, and the latest departure — Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers — has put the leadership exodus back in the spotlight. Malone, who joined in March 2024, left last week, according to a report from TechCrunch. OpenAI attributed the move […]

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Particle launches Radar, a podcast search engine that gives AI agents access to audio data

August 26, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is pivoting to a new market: making podcasts searchable and usable by AI agents. On Wednesday, the company launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and semantically indexes over 130,000 shows, allowing users to search for specific quotes, topics, and entity mentions. The product […]

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Bill Gates Proposes ‘Robot Tax’ and ‘Human Reserved’ Jobs to Counter AI Job Displacement

August 26, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates waded deeper into AI policy on August 26, 2026, publishing a lengthy essay on his Gates Notes platform that endorses an AI slowdown while proposing two concrete interventions — a “robot tax” and the creation of “Human Reserved” job categories — to blunt the technology’s impact on the labor market. The […]

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Z.ai confirms it’s the lab behind Ox Alpha, the open-weight model topping AI leaderboards

August 26, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Z.ai, the Beijing-based lab behind the GLM family of open-weight models, confirmed on Monday that it is the creator of Ox Alpha — the mysterious model that appeared anonymously on OpenRouter over the weekend and quickly shot to the top of several AI leaderboards. The company told Bloomberg that Ox Alpha is the newest iteration […]

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Claude’s new unified memory ends the annoying rebriefing loop between chat and Cowork

August 25, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it is unifying the memory systems of its Claude chat interface and its agentic work tool, Claude Cowork, effectively ending the tedious loop of re-explaining project context every time a user switches between the two. The update, which began rolling out this week, also introduces a new transparency layer that […]

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Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica to build AI research division

August 25, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a dedicated design research lab, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Lica’s co-founders, Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta, will lead the new division, which will focus on advancing AI-driven visual communication tools. Lica initially launched in 2023 as an app that transformed screenshots and screen recordings […]

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Instinct’s AI assistant wows testers, but its data practices are raising alarms

August 24, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

San Francisco-based startup Instinct has generated significant buzz in the AI community this week with its powerful personal assistant, which is currently in private access. While early testers have praised the agent for its ability to handle complex tasks “like magic,” a growing chorus of security experts and early adopters is raising serious questions about […]