Artificial Inteligence feed for Friday, August 28, 2026

• Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
• An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
• Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
• Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
• Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
• Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
• Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
• Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
• Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
• The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language