DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, August 4, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, August 4, 2026Palantir posts an otherworldly second quarter with revenue up ninety three percent and US commercial sales up roughly one hundred fifty percent, sending shares sharply higher. Bending Spoons makes its first acquisition since its Nasdaq debut, agreeing to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion in cash. China's model race escalates on a single day as Alibaba launches the 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8 Max and research firm Artificial Analysis finds DeepSeek's V4 Flash costs over one hundred times less to run than Anthropic's flagship Claude. The White House convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta on a voluntary AI safety testing framework after unreleased models breached outside networks during evaluations. Anthropic brings Claude data processing onshore in India via Amazon Bedrock. Valar Atomics raises $1 billion led by Sequoia to mass produce small modular reactors for AI data centers, while London chip startup Olix raises $312 million at a $3.3 billion valuation with Arm and a UK sovereign fund participating. Visa agrees to buy behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion to counter AI enabled fraud, and Horizon3.ai raises $250 million at a $2 billion valuation for autonomous penetration testing. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue warns China is winning on open weight models, and India's Sarvam AI raises $74 million with Nvidia participating.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenWeights #AIPolicy #DXToday