The weekly digest on the AI economy and the innovation worth watching.
CoreWeave renewed a 2020-era GPU contract for three years at one-year prices while list rates held, and probation officers in England and Wales summarised 1.6 million meetings with AI.
Sep 21, 2026
Most of Oracle's AI contracts were prepaid or ran on customers' own hardware, Qualcomm paid Amazon in warrants, and AI triage cut radiologist workload 63.6% in a Spanish screening trial.
Sep 14, 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI shipped flagships at the same list price with cache reads four times apart, and a two-year school trial found AI tutoring matched practice without it.
Sep 7, 2026
NVIDIA's custom memory and interconnect are heading into Amazon's own accelerator, and a Hamburg container terminal cut straddle carrier travel 17% by predicting it.
Aug 31, 2026
NVIDIA put up to $105 billion of credit behind an Ohio campus that starts delivering in 2028, and an AI loop lifted South African cell-site energy savings to 13.5%.
Aug 24, 2026
DeepSeek halved its token price outside Chinese office hours, NVIDIA lined up $500 billion of outside capital for AI factories, and a drug-safety team's letters took 23% less time.
Aug 17, 2026
Hut 8 raised $7.5 billion of non-recourse project debt against two leased campuses and AMD agreed to buy an inference-chip startup. A Beijing metro trial moved inspection to the edge.
Aug 10, 2026