AI & Robotics News — Monday, August 31, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek

SourcesWall Street Journal TechnologyReuters TechnologyTech TimesDIGITIMESPulse 2.0TechPowerUpThe Korea HeraldTechCrunch

02

Trump says U.S. communities opposing AI data centers could end up 'backwards and poor'

SourcesCNBC TechnologyABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting CorporationStartup Fortunetheguardian.comTom's HardwareBusiness Insider

03

Skild AI Unveils S1 flagship robot foundation model

SourcesThe Robot Report

04

Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

SourcesSecurityWeekThe New Stack

05

Proximity3D: Shape from Capacitive Proximity on Sensing Manifold

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

06

Autonomously Acquiring Robot Manipulation Skills with Language-Driven Quality-Diversity

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

07

Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

08

OpenAI's ad business hits $1 billion annualized revenue run rate

SourcesThe InformationReuters TechnologyCNBC TechnologyPYMNTS.comDigidayPulse 2.0The DecoderBusiness Insider

09

Exclusive: AI advocacy group Launches data center push in battleground states

SourcesAxios AI+

10

Bull Selected to Deliver Europe’s €387.8M LUMI-AI Supercomputer in Finland

SourcesHPCwire

11

Anthropic Users Hit by Infostealer Attacks, Session Thefts

SourcesDark Reading

12

Here's where some of the biggest labor unions stand on data centers

SourcesBusiness Insider

13

Elon Musk says SpaceX will build its own gas turbine parts to meet surging AI power demand

SourcesBusiness Insider

14

Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

15

Reframe Systems Raises $40 Million

SourcesThe Robot Report

16

At your service: Hong Kong welcomes first humanoid robot-run convenience stores

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

17

Antiscam AI Chatbot Startup Raises $8.15 Million

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology

18

Nvidia and MediaTek Deepen Long-Standing Partnership to Build AI Edge to Cloud Computing Platforms

SourcesNVIDIA NewsroomUnite.AI

19

Corvus Robotics obtains funding, names new CEO

SourcesAutomated Warehouse

20

Saudi AI firms Humain, DataVolt partner for data center on kingdom's Red Sea coast

SourcesReuters Technology

21

Lumos Robotics Launches MOS2 as 'AI Worker,' Bringing Embodied Intelligence to the Factory Floor

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

22

Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame aims to raise $908 million after setting Shanghai IPO price

SourcesReuters Technology

23

Think Unveils Fabric Platform for High-Density AI Compute

SourcesHPCwire

24

Exclusive: AI startup TrustedRouter Raises $1.25 Million

SourcesAxios AI+

25

U.S. Start-Up Partners With Saudi Arabia for Data Center

SourcesNew York Times Technology