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TODAY on top: what the desk filed, each line sourced. The back file below holds the whole sourced arc, Turing to today. The long story lives on the timeline; who's who lives on the labs page.
The desk's 4 most recent items from the wire file. No padding — if the morning was quiet, this list is short.
Aug 17, 2026
deal
NVIDIA / SB Energy / OpenAI. NVIDIA secured land, power, and shell at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus in Pike County, Ohio, to exclusively host NVIDIA AI compute. OpenAI is the tenant; NVIDIA is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy. Read the article →
Aug 13, 2026
release
Google DeepMind. Google introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, its workhorse model for coding and agents, at an introductory $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens through the end of 2026. Read the article →
Aug 11, 2026
release
Cursor / SpaceXAI. Grok Bot launched in beta: AI teammates with their own cloud computers, sold through Cursor Ultra and SuperGrok Heavy. Access widened August 21. Read the article →
Aug 10, 2026
deal
NVIDIA. NVIDIA announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish AI compute financing platforms intended to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital. The memorandums of understanding remain subject to final agreements. Read the article →
The energy reference
This is the cadence TODAY is built for — a recurring briefing, not a once-a-year museum. Real tape: Matt Wolfe.
The sourced archive, Turing to today — 112 items, every one with a link. / search · Esc clear. Embeds are verified YouTube IDs only.