InfraAMD agrees to buy Taalas - the company that bakes the model straight into siliconThe agreement was announced on 6 August, but the deal hasn't closed, and no price has been disclosed. Taalas is betting on an extreme idea: the model shouldn't run on a chip - it should be the chip.InfraThe EU opens the call for up to seven AI gigafactoriesOn July 30 the European Commission launched the tender for building up to seven computing power centers. Public money is 10 billion euro, and the expectation is that private capital will add at least double that. There are no deadlines in the announcement itself.InfraRivals on the same team: 40 companies launch an open alliance for AI agent securityOn 27 July NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM, Cloudflare, Hugging Face and over 40 more organizations announced the Open Secure AI Alliance - open technologies and tools for securing software and AI agents. The occasion isn't abstract: the industry still remembers the first major incident with an autonomous agent. The idea is simple - security shouldn't be a trade secret.InfraNVIDIA showed Vera Rubin: AI hardware that keeps learning nonstopNVIDIA announced Vera Rubin - a platform for 'continuous post-training' of agentic models, meaning systems that don't stop learning from their own actions after the initial training. The company claims it does the same job with a quarter of the chips compared to the previous generation. The numbers come from NVIDIA. The direction is real though, and everyone paying the AI bill pays for it.InfraNVIDIA brings its robot chips down to the mass marketOn 15 July NVIDIA launched two new Jetson Thor modules - T3000 and T2000 - on the Blackwell architecture, for robotics and edge AI. The cheaper one lands exactly where earlier robot boards were too expensive for a device made in volume.InfraCloudflare rolled out a code that shows when DNSSEC has been bypassedOn 3 July the Albanian domain .AL stopped opening for resolvers with DNSSEC checking on. The operator AKEP had changed the key. But the record in the root zone still pointed to the old one. Cloudflare's public resolver 1.1.1.1 restored access with a workaround, but for the first time marked the answer with a code that openly says: this check was skipped.InfraGoogle released a sandbox for agent-written code, with the network closed by defaultCloud Run sandboxes entered public preview on July 10. You run code written by an AI agent, and it doesn't touch the rest of your system. What matters is in the default: zero outbound network access, zero visibility into the service's keys.InfraCloudflare stopped guessing where your server is and started askingAs of 10 July you can specify yourself which AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Oracle region your server sits in, instead of the network guessing by response time and getting it wrong. A shorter path for traffic, no extra cost, even on the free plan.
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