Pulse Daily — Sunday, August 30, 2026
On Sunday, August 30, 2026, the AI landscape marked a symbolic and substantive convergence: OpenAI retired the DALL-E GPT interface today, Amazon confirmed Mechanical Turk closes September 30 — ending the era of 'artificial artificial intelligence' — while Nvidia moved to deepen its stake in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation, SoftBank readied a $6.3B bond to fund AI deals, OpenAI's unreleased Astra model continued to reverberate after solving ten decades-old math problems, a Pew survey revealed one-third of Americans now use AI chatbots for health tasks, South Korea's Wrtn Technologies closed a…
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