Everything that mattered in tech over the last 24 hours, in about two minutes.

🤖 AI / ML

Nvidia backs up to $105B in financing for OpenAI’s Ohio data center

Nvidia will guarantee more than $105 billion in financing to build out a 4.25-gigawatt (expandable to 8GW) OpenAI campus in Pike County, Ohio, developed and managed by SB Energy; in return OpenAI commits to using Nvidia chips onsite. It’s the clearest sign yet that AI compute financing is shifting from cash to chipmaker-backed credit. — CNBC, Bloomberg

DeepSeek launches V4 Pro at a steep price premium

V4-Pro-0813 is priced at $1.32/$3.96 per million input/output tokens — roughly 9x and 14x V4 Flash’s rates — while scoring 53 versus 40 on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. DeepSeek is betting flagship-grade reasoning can finally command flagship-grade pricing, a break from its low-cost positioning. — Business Standard

Microsoft retires free-tier Copilot Deep Research, unifies its Copilot apps

Starting today, Microsoft is merging its consumer and business Copilot apps under a single copilot.cloud.microsoft identity and sunsetting Deep Research, Group Chat, and Copilot Podcasts from the free tier — Deep Research’s replacement, Researcher, moves behind a $19.99/month paywall. — Tech Times, GeekWire

🛠 Development

Atlassian’s new AI data-contribution policy takes effect

As of today, Jira, Confluence, and JSM data — issue text, page content, and usage metadata — feeds Atlassian’s AI training by default on an opt-out basis for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers; only Enterprise customers keep full opt-out control. It’s a significant default-on shift for the roughly 300,000 companies running on Atlassian’s stack. — The Register, Rezolve.ai

Gemini 3.7 Flash rolls out in GitHub Copilot

Google’s latest Flash model is now available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, with early testing showing gains in code quality, codebase research, and agentic coding workflows over Gemini 3.6 Flash. Enterprise and Business admins must explicitly enable it via a Copilot policy before it appears for their org. — GitHub Changelog

🏢 Big Tech & Startups

Groq raises $350M Series A at a $3.5B valuation, with Nvidia joining the round

The AI inference-chip company will use the round — led by Disruptive with Nvidia, BlackRock, and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners participating — to grow its compute footprint from 54MW to over 200MW in 2027, on top of $650M raised in June. — Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE

Wispr Flow raises $280M Series B at a $2B valuation

Menlo Ventures led the round for the voice-dictation startup, which says revenue has grown more than 150% for four straight quarters across 125,000+ companies. Wispr also shipped a new in-house speech model, Canto, after users flagged accuracy issues with its dictation output. — TechCrunch, Fortune

🔐 Security & Cloud

GitLab patches critical unauthenticated data-deletion flaw

CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4) let unauthenticated attackers modify or delete public projects and user data via a GraphQL directive on self-managed GitLab CE/EE. Fixed in 19.2.4, 19.1.6, 19.0.8, and 18.11.11 — GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated were already patched. No in-the-wild exploitation has been confirmed yet, but self-managed instances should upgrade immediately. — GitLab, The Hacker News

SafePal breach exposes order data on nearly 40,000 customers

The crypto wallet maker traced the exposure to an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in that let one customer view another’s order details — names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers for orders placed between March 2025 and April 2026. Wallet seed phrases, private keys, and payment credentials weren’t affected, but stolen data is already being advertised for sale, raising phishing risk for those customers. — BleepingComputer, Help Net Security

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