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OpenAI is growing faster than Anthropic among U.S. businesses so far this quarter, according to new Ramp spending data posted August 20, 2026 by the expense-management company’s lead economist, Ara Kharazian, marking the first signs of a reversal since Anthropic took the lead in corporate AI spending three months ago. The numbers come from the…

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors on August 20, 2026 approved a new wholesale rate class built specifically for data centers, part of a package that also adopted the utility’s 2026 Integrated Resource Plan and a fiscal 2027 budget carrying more than $13 billion in planned generation and transmission spending through FY29. The actions,…

OpenAI has shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, letting the chatbot read and search a Mac’s iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations and prepare or send texts through the Messages app itself. The feature landed August 20, 2026, in the company’s release notes, and it works inside Codex and ChatGPT…

Anthropic opened an incident on August 20, 2026, after elevated errors began hitting requests to what the company described as some Claude models, with the disruption reaching across nearly the entire Claude product line. The incident notice, posted at 19:16 UTC, lists claude.ai, the Claude API at api.anthropic.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as affected….

Agnidipta Sarkar, Chief Evangelist, ColorTokens is a cybersecurity and digital resilience leader with more than three decades of experience spanning cyber defense, risk management, business continuity, privacy, and Zero Trust. At ColorTokens, he works with boards, C-suite executives, and security leaders to strengthen breach readiness and connect cybersecurity programs with business priorities, while also contributing…

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production accounts for up to 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption and…

Liquid AI released speculative-decoding draft checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family on August 20, 2026, reporting throughput gains of up to 3.18x on a single H100 GPU and up to 2.87x on an Apple-silicon MacBook, with no change to model outputs. The LFM2.5-DSpark release covers drafters for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and the mixture-of-experts LFM2.5-8B-A1B,…

Google DeepMind’s Gemma family of open models has passed one billion cumulative downloads, the company said on August 20, 2026, capping two years in which outside developers published more than 100,000 variants built on the models’ open weights. The figures, disclosed in Google’s official announcement by Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and…

Par Chadha, Founder, CEO and CIO of HandsOn Global Management, is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive with decades of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses. Since founding HandsOn Global Management in 2001, he has focused on investments in workflow automation, big data, robotic process automation (RPA), cognitive technologies, and artificial intelligence across financial services,…

Robot.com has signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo to expand autonomous delivery across Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America, a contract the company describes as its largest single enterprise deployment. Announced August 20, 2026, the deal extends a partnership that began in 2021 and broadens it for the first time beyond delivery into robot-carried…