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CoreWeave Reports Surging Cloud Revenue as Legacy GPUs Stay Booked Through 2029 AI-focused specialized cloud provider CoreWeave announced strong earnings performance, reporting that customer demand has left its compute capacity nearly fully sold out. Highlighting the longevity of AI hardware infrastructure, CoreWeave revealed that its inventory of NVIDIA A100 GPUs  originally launched in 2020 has been fully locked in by client contracts extending all the way through 2029 . Beyond older architectures, CoreWeave continues to see sustained utilization across its NVIDIA Hopper architecture fleet. As initial multi-year contracts for Hopper hardware reached their expiration dates, the ongoing global AI compute shortage enabled the company to re-lease these units at higher rental prices than their original rates. Despite strong returns on legacy chips, CoreWeave co-founder Michael Intrator noted that next-generation architectures like Blackwell and Vera Rubin deliver significantly hi...

GitHub Outage Breakdown: Istio Limits, Connection Loops, and VS Code Copilot Bug Cause 7-Hour Downtime GitHub experienced a major cascading outage lasting over seven hours, leaving millions of developers unable to push code or access repositories. Following the incident, the engineering team published a preliminary post-mortem detailing how a convergence of unexpected traffic spikes, misconfigurations, and a client-side retry bug in VS Code triggered the prolonged disruption. The incident originated in the Central US region when an influx of user traffic coincided with a hidden configuration bottleneck in GitHub's internal Istio service mesh. When the auto-scaling mechanism triggered, it failed to account for Istio sidecar proxy limits. As new instances scaled up, sidecar allocation hit hard system caps, causing the primary HAProxy load balancers to crash sequentially until the entire regional gateway went offline. The outage was severely amplified by aggressive internal and e...

Xiaomi Reports Q2 2026 Earnings: Memory Component Costs Weigh on Smartphone Margins as EV Division Expands Xiaomi has released its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, posting a year-over-year revenue decline amid industry-wide supply chain cost pressures. Total quarterly revenue fell 6% to 108.92 billion yuan , while net profit dropped 20% to 9.46 billion yuan . The earnings contraction was primarily driven by sharply lower gross margins, heavily impacted by rising memory component costs affecting smartphone manufacturers globally. Smartphone shipments experienced a significant volume reduction, falling 26% year-over-year to 31.2 million units . Xiaomi attributed this drop to a strategic decision to curtail production in low-to-mid-range smartphone segments to mitigate surging memory chip expenses. Correspondingly, smartphone revenue declined 7% to 42.12 billion yuan , with a net profit margin of 8.5% , though the company maintained its position as the world's t...

AI Agent Exploits GitHub Actions Vulnerability Introduced by AI Code Fix in Snowflake Repository Cybersecurity firm Wiz revealed a security vulnerability within a Snowflake open-source repository on GitHub, where an automated AI security patch unintentionally introduced a critical command injection flaw. The weakness was discovered and successfully exploited by Wiz's autonomous security auditing system, Red Agent , which extracted sensitive internal Jira API credentials. The flaw occurred in Snowflake's snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository. The project contained an automated GitHub Actions workflow designed to mirror newly opened GitHub issues into Snowflake’s internal Jira system. Originally, the workflow safely parsed issue titles using the jq JSON processor and environment variables ( env ). However, a automated code update co-authored by Copilot Autofix  refactored the script to directly execute bash commands referencing inline GitHub event variables ( github...

OpenAI Launches 'ChatGPT for Teens' Featuring Safety Guardrails and Built-In Study Controls OpenAI has officially introduced ChatGPT for Teens , a dedicated experience designed specifically for users aged 13 to 17. The new offering introduces enhanced safety protocols, comprehensive parental controls, and specialized academic assistance tools to foster a safer digital environment for teenage users. To protect young users, ChatGPT for Teens automatically blocks responses related to high-risk topics, including self-harm, physical violence, dangerous activities, and explicit content. Additionally, the platform features real-time image analysis warnings to flag and prevent the upload of sensitive or inappropriate media. Beyond safety guardrails, the platform is optimized for learning through an integrated Study Mode . Instead of providing direct answers, Study Mode guides students through academic problems step-by-step. Parents and students can configure specific hours for Study M...

Bluesky Faces User Retention Slump as Competitors Capitalize on Microblogging Market The momentum for alternative social media platform Bluesky appears to be waning, with recent market data showing significant drops across key user activity indicators. The platform's engagement metrics have experienced double-digit declines: Monthly Active Users (MAU): Bluesky recorded 10.4 million monthly active users in June 2026, marking a 27.2% decline compared to the same period last year. Daily Active Users (DAU): Daily active usage fell to 3 million users in July 2026, representing a 25.6% year-over-year drop . In the broader short-text social media landscape, Meta’s Threads leads the sector with roughly 500 million monthly active users , achieving a 20% year-over-year growth rate . Meanwhile, X (formerly Twitter) maintains second place at approximately 300 million monthly active users , experiencing a slight decline over the same period. The gap between account registrations and dai...

Cursor Launches 'Origin' Native Code Hosting as SpaceX Acquisition Finalizes Cursor  which officially completed its $60 billion acquisition by SpaceX under the SpaceXAI umbrella has launched Origin , its native code-hosting service integrated directly into the editor's new Codebase tab. The release comes at a strategic time when traditional platforms like GitHub are increasingly viewed as bottlenecks for high-frequency AI coding workflows due to latency, external API calls, and separate pull-request interfaces. As the broader AI ecosystem seeks agent-native alternatives such as former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman's venture Entire  Cursor's Origin aims to eliminate boundaries between code storage and AI execution. Built on modified Git infrastructure (a specialized "Git forge"), Origin unifies source code, pull requests, and AI agents into a single native environment. Rather than treating AI agents as external third-party reviewers or API clients, Cursor int...

YouTube Standardizes View Counting: Instant Play Views Go Public Starting August 24 YouTube has officially announced a major update to its view-counting methodology. Starting August 24, 2026 , a view will be tallied the moment a video begins playing, eliminating the long-standing minimum playback threshold. This unified policy applies universally across all content formats, including standard long-form videos, YouTube Shorts, and Live streams. View counts recorded prior to August 24 will remain unchanged under the legacy calculation system. According to YouTube, this adjustment aims to provide a clearer, real-time reflection of a creator's initial reach while making performance metrics easier to demonstrate to brand partners and advertisers. While Shorts adopted instant-play view counting last year, standard long-form videos previously required a viewer to watch for an undisclosed minimum duration widely estimated by industry analysts to be between 30 seconds and 1 minute  before ...

NVIDIA, OpenAI, and SB Energy Partner on 10-Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Ohio NVIDIA and OpenAI have expanded their infrastructure partnership by joining forces with SB Energy to construct a massive AI data center hub at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio, United States. Under the tripartite agreement, the facility will be fully equipped with NVIDIA’s DSX AI architecture, with OpenAI serving as the primary anchor tenant under a 20-year long-term lease , while SB Energy handles construction and facility operations. To finance the project, NVIDIA will extend a line of credit to SB Energy covering land acquisition and structural development. The campus is designed for an initial compute capacity of 4.25 IT Gigawatts (GW)  measuring dedicated power for processing hardware with provisions to expand by an additional 3.75 IT GW, bringing total compute capacity to 8 IT GW . Including cooling and operational overhead, total campus power demand will reach approximately 10 Gigaw...

Anti-AI Platform 'Cara' Suffers Massive 12TB Scraping Exploit, Highlighting Challenges in Artist Protection Cara , the artist-focused social media platform founded by photographer Jingna Zhang , has encountered a significant security challenge following a massive data-scraping exploit. Built on a strict anti-AI policy, Cara explicitly forbids AI-generated artwork, uses automated detection tools to purge synthetic media, and implements anti-scraping measures to prevent third parties from harvesting creator portfolios for machine learning training. Despite these safeguards, a Reddit user recently posted a claim that they successfully scraped over 12 million images (totaling more than 12TB of data) from Cara's servers. The user stated that the automated scraping operation was assisted by AI tools and cost roughly $10 to execute, describing the endeavor as a casual weekend project. The Reddit post has since been deleted. Responding to the breach, Jingna Zhang spoke out on the...

Microsoft Closes 15 Chinese Subsidiaries and Shifts Server Production Outside China According to recent regulatory filings submitted to the SEC, Microsoft has gradually closed at least 15 offices and joint-venture subsidiaries in mainland China over the past five years. The company has also laid off approximately 200 to 400 Azure cloud personnel in the region and begun relocating hardware manufacturing lines for Surface devices, Xbox consoles, and cloud servers aiming to produce 80% of its server infrastructure outside China . Despite these structural shifts, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the tech giant continues to operate in China and currently has no plans for a complete market exit. Analyzing the move, Reuters noted that Beijing’s national policy directives since 2017 have strongly encouraged government agencies and state-owned enterprises to replace foreign technology with domestic alternatives. Official procurement guidelines issued between 2023 and 2026 deliberately ...