The wheresthe.ai weekly brief, 31 Aug 2026
4 developments from 24 Aug 2026 to 30 Aug 2026, the Storylines they moved, and the AI deadlines coming up. Free every Monday.
This week in AI
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Korea picks SK Telecom, KT and Kakao consortia to build free ‘AI for all’ services
Korea is paying three telecom and platform groups to give every citizen a free AI assistant built mostly on domestic models, with GPUs supplied by the state.
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Tencent releases Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter open model
Tencent’s second open flagship in four months kept China’s largest internet groups competing in open models.
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Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard for AI agents that operate lab and factory equipment
Labs and factories in the preview can let one agent run several instruments at once, and the safety evaluations for agents handling physical equipment are being written with them.
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NVIDIA reports $96.2bn quarterly revenue, with data centre sales up 117%
The company at the centre of AI compute doubled its sales in a year while assuming nothing from China, the market US export rules restrict.