AI & Robotics News — Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Anthropic agrees $45bn AI data centre deal with UK start-up Nscale

SourcesFinancial Times AITechCrunch

02

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

SourcesTechCrunch

03

Burns & McDonnell and Gritt partner to deploy AI-powered robots on solar construction sites

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

04

Navitas Semiconductor Acquires power management firm Claros for $232.8m

SourcesData Center Dynamics

05

AI data center and sovereign cloud Launched in Papua New Guinea

SourcesData Center Dynamics

06

Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to ‘SaaSpocalypse’ concerns

SourcesCNBC TechnologyBloomberg Technology

07

The risks of investing $7tn in AI data centres

SourcesFinancial Times AI

08

‘It seems crazy’: SpaceX’s orbital data centre bet tests physics and finance

SourcesFinancial Times AI

09

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

SourcesTechCrunch

10

Crypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for mining — jury convicts…

SourcesTom's Hardware

11

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

SourcesTechCrunchBusiness Insider

12

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

SourcesTechCrunch

13

Emerald AI Raises $150 Million

SourcesData Center Dynamics

14

Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO

SourcesThe Decoder

15

AGIBOT Wins 18 Gold Medals on World Humanoid Robot Games Debut, Tops Gold and Overall Medal Tables

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

16

Launch date for London robotaxis slips amid TfL uncertainty

SourcesFinancial Times AI

17

Bill Gates warns AI is more dangerous than the tech industry will admit

SourcesThe Decoder

18

Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’

SourcesThe VergeEngadget

19

CEO Jensen Huang went on an AI deal spree in August. Nvidia plans to invest $18 billion more this fiscal year

SourcesBusiness Insider

20

IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0

SourcesThe Decoder

21

The cow comes home: China’s Internet celebrates Z.ai claiming ownership of Ox Alpha

SourcesBusiness Insider

22

Shopify’s CEO threatened to ban Claude Code. Anthropic had already closed the feature request

SourcesThe New Stack

23

Nearly half of young Britons wrongly think AI financial advice is regulated

SourcesFinancial Times AI

24

AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis

SourcesSecurityWeek

25

Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

SourcesTechCrunch