WEEKLY DIGEST
Week in AI: Aug 10 — Aug 14, 2026
The top stories from our coverage this week.
@NVIDIA mobilizes $500B in third-party capital with @BlackRock @Blackstone @GoldmanSachs to finance AI compute.
unite.ai/nvidia-mobilizes-500-billion-in-third-part…
Chinese robot maker targets $9B valuation in IPO, positioning its humanoid robots against @Tesla's Optimus.
news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiggFBVV95cUxPeWRuY0…
Global AI closes $441M in first debt raise to expand sovereign AI data centers.
unite.ai/global-ai-closes-first-debt-raise-to-expan…
Surgical robots learn 10x faster with World-Action Model, needing 90% less data.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.11204v1
@Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning matches @OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index with 3.6B active parameters.
the-decoder.com/nvidias-open-weight-nemotron-3-5-li…
@AnthropicAI sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default, catching 89% of dangerous commands
the-decoder.com/anthropic-sets-claude-code-to-auto-…
Pokee AI's Isaac 28B scores 93.3% on RULER at 10M tokens, customer-boundary deployment. @PokeeAI
marktechpost.com/2026/08/08/pokee-ai-releases-pokee…
HD Hyundai signs $673.8M contract to supply 1,000 MW for U.S. AI data centers.
unite.ai/hd-hyundai-lands-1000-mw-engine-order-to-p…
@OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to answer 98.5% of security queries blocked from defenders.
the-decoder.com/openai-launches-gpt-5-6-cyber-to-he…
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5M seed to scale humanoid robots in industrial supply chains. therobotreport.com/avatar-robotics-raises-6-5-m-see…