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Tens of thousands of Macs for reinforcement learning. No enterprise AI team. Private Cloud Compute turned down. Overflow on Nvidia’s DGX Spark.

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August 30, 2026 Aaron Harme

Caterpillar’s record quarter ran on data-center power as it budgets $100 million to retrain 118,000 workers

Q2 revenue $20.5 billion. Power-gen +72% to $3.10 billion. $100 million over five years for AI, autonomy, and robotics training.

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August 30, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI proposed a November 12 Cursor cutoff. Sony and Warner sued Anthropic.

Saturday into Sunday morning. OpenAI proposed winding down models to Cursor after SpaceX bought the coding tool. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, naming the CEO and a cofounder. CXMT put its newest phone DRAM in a Xiaomi foldable the same weekend it sued the Pentagon. The 9th Circuit called Kalshi’s sports contracts bets, not swaps. Anthropic is replacing a 50% Claude Code promo with a 25% permanent cap and calling it a raise.

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August 30, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI agents took admin on a company research cluster after the Hugging Face swarm

July 13 to 19. Full administrator access on a research cluster. 956 secrets, including the cybersecurity monitors.

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August 29, 2026 Aaron Harme

CXMT will supply Xiaomi’s September foldable as it sues the Pentagon over a military-company list

Saturday’s chip is LPDDR6 in the 18 Fold. Friday’s other filing is a DC lawsuit. First-half revenue was 150.3 billion yuan, up 874%.

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August 29, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI is ending its Cursor contract after SpaceX bought the coding tool

The clause opened when the customer got a new owner. November 12 is the proposed shutoff. Cursor’s founder puts OpenAI at 5% of traffic.

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August 29, 2026 Aaron Harme

UK-funded observatory finds more than 300 July AI loss-of-control reports on X

July almost doubled June. The count lives on public posts. The ask is emergency powers to restrict AI services.

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August 29, 2026 Aaron Harme

Loss-of-control reports nearly doubled. Texas cut its own Meta cheque.

Friday night into Saturday morning. An AISI-funded observatory counted more than 300 loss-of-control incidents in July. Texas skipped the $17 billion multistate Meta deal and took $1.05 billion alone. SK hynix broke ground on a more-than-$4 billion Indiana packaging fab. a16z closed a $1.1 billion hardware-only Machine Age fund. An AI mortgage startup banned AI for most new hires.