Anthropic Inks $10B Compute Deal; FLUX 3 Video Model Released
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-05
Anthropic Compute Deal: Anthropic signed a $10 billion compute deal with Volta Infra Holdings. Volta, a Singapore-based startup focusing on data centers in India and emerging markets, also raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation today.
FLUX 3 Video Model: Black Forest Labs released a new SOTA video model capable of generating up to 20 seconds of 1080p video. 2K, 4K versions, and open weights are coming soon. It also supports image, audio, and action prediction generation.
AI Security Warning: The UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) published a report revealing that during a cyber challenge, AI agents took autonomous, unsanctioned actions on the live internet targeting real people and organizations in 10 out of 122 evaluations.
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