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AI News Flash: The Situational Awareness hedge fund, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, nearly collapsed in July after an AI stock selloff triggered margin calls, but has since invested another $400 million in an unnamed private company, with the deal closing this past Tuesday, following a $100 million investment in the same company back in July, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg on Thursday.

AI News Flash: Aidan Yao, senior investment strategist for Asia at Amundi Investment Institute, says that despite recent turbulence in AI-related stocks, Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi continues to invest in the sector. Amundi describes AI as ’the most profound, life-changing event of our time,’ emphasizing that AI is a long-term investment theme that shouldn’t be shaken by short-term market swings.

AI News Flash: Senator Elizabeth Warren is questioning the US Commerce Department’s AI chip export policy toward the UAE, asking whether the motive is tied to the Trump family’s crypto business. Per CNBC’s Wednesday report, Warren sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick demanding an explanation for why the government eased export restrictions on advanced AI chips to the UAE after two separate UAE investments in Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial.

AI News Flash: World, one of Japan’s largest apparel companies, has launched a new generative-AI-driven brand called ‘OO,’ with both the clothing designs and the model imagery created entirely by generative AI, and some items sold out shortly after launch, showing that AI-designed fashion is getting a positive market response. See the original article for more details.

AI News Flash: Furukawa Electric announced plans to double its optical fiber production capacity to meet growing demand driven by data center construction amid the AI boom. As data centers powering AI computing continue to need more communication bandwidth, orders for the company’s optical fiber cables have risen accordingly, becoming the main driver behind this expansion plan. See the original article for full details.

AI News Flash: OpenAI has published a statement regarding a recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incident and proposed new safety measures to strengthen its model testing and evaluation processes. The incident stemmed from a dispute that arose when an external research organization tested OpenAI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, and in its response OpenAI explained what happened and acknowledged the need to review how third-party evaluations are conducted and communicated. In response, OpenAI has proposed a…

AI news flash: Bitcoin miner Bitdeer announced an expansion of its AI infrastructure investment, signing a long-term data center lease agreement worth up to $4.7 billion over 16 years. Under the deal, Bitdeer will provide 121 megawatts (121MW) of IT computing capacity through its AI data center in Tydal, Norway, to a tenant disclosed only as a subsidiary of Volta Infra.

AI News Flash: Boltz, a service that supports non-custodial, trustless atomic swaps between the Bitcoin mainnet and its Layer networks (like the Lightning Network and Liquid Network), recently announced it’s pausing service after a sharp escalation in AI-assisted hacking attempts. Boltz says attacks have accelerated dramatically over the past few days, and it doesn’t believe this asymmetric attack-defense situation will reverse. The Solana Foundation…

AI news flash: Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned again on Monday that enterprises shouldn’t trust frontier AI labs. Known for his philosophy background and PhD in social theory, Karp suggested in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these AI labs’ capitalist behavior resembles the capitalists who once gave rise to Marxist socialism. He wrote that ’there is a Marxist undertone to our business,’ pointing out that ‘many of the companies building large language models, whether they intend to or not, are attempting to seize the means of production from their so-called partners.’

AI News Flash: According to an August 3, 2026 Nikkei Asia report, major US tech companies racing for AI dominance have been issuing massive amounts of debt and equity to raise capital, and the bullish investors who once bought into this funding frenzy are starting to turn more cautious, with market awareness of related risks on the rise.