20 August 2026

London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others  —  Callosum, a startup that makes software to match specific artificial intelligence tasks with different models and chips …

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A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers  —  Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.

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Virginia's Loudoun County hosts more than 250 data centers generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Virginia's Loudoun County hosts more than 250 data centers generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents  —  Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues.  But some officials and residents worry …

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China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (William Langley/Financial Times)

William Langley / Financial Times:
China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns  —  Companies are selling machines to government-backed centres that then sell training data back to robot makers.

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Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing  —  TAIPEI — China is restricting or delaying exports of key aerospace and optical materials to Taiwan, creating painful supply chain bottlenecks …

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