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IT Daily Brief — August 18, 2026
Nvidia backs up to $105B in financing for OpenAI’s new Ohio data center, GitLab patches a critical unauthenticated data-deletion flaw, and Groq and Wispr Flow both close nine-figure rounds.
IT Daily Brief — August 17, 2026
Anthropic posts its first quarterly operating profit, Stripe finalizes its $7B+ OpenRouter acquisition, and Clop’s PTC Windchill zero-day campaign keeps widening with Shell, GE, and Philips all investigating.