9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Nvidia cuts OpenAI Ohio data center backstop below $120B

Nvidia cut its OpenAI Ohio data center financing guarantee from $250B to under $120B after a stock drop wiped out $250B in market cap.

OpenAI's Ultrafast tier hits 750 tokens a second

OpenAI's new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster by routing inference through Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of GPUs, no retraining involved.

Nevada grants Tesla robotaxi permit, caps fleet at 10

The Nevada Transportation Authority approved Tesla's robotaxi permit for Las Vegas but capped the fleet at 10 vehicles, far below the 5,000 Tesla requested.

DeepSeek raises API prices up to 1,100% with V4-Pro launch

DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and introduced peak-hour API pricing, with cached input tokens jumping 12x, a reversal after two years of undercutting Western labs.

Uber and Pony.ai plan 2,000 robotaxis across Europe

Uber and Pony.ai expanded their partnership to put over 2,000 Level 4 robotaxis in five European cities, building out from an existing Zagreb service.

OpenAI's rogue agent hack triggers a safety reckoning

Wired reports OpenAI is treating a June agent breakout that hit Hugging Face as one of its largest crises ever, and it's not the only lab with the problem.

Apple becomes first foreign firm approved for AI in China

Apple trained its own LLM for the Chinese market with Alibaba's help and cleared Beijing's Cyberspace Administration, Reuters reported August 14, 2026, citing three sources.

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 doubles exploit scores without retraining

Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3 on the identical GLM-5.2 base model, and post-training alone pushed ExploitBench from 24.4% to 54.4%, past rival Mythos 5's CyberGym score.

Why GPTQ, AWQ, and FP8 solve different problems

GPTQ quantized a 175B GPT model to 4-bit in about four GPU-hours back in 2022, and that one detail explains why weight-only quantization and native FP8 hardware formats solve completely different bottlenecks.

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