Pulse Daily — Monday, August 24, 2026
On Monday, August 24, 2026, the AI world was reshaped by Nvidia's reported $30B+ Perplexity investment talks, XPeng's record $900M humanoid robot raise, Tesla's Nevada robotaxi expansion, the unification of AI agent protocols under the AAIF, Cloudflare's landmark machine-traffic milestone, and August's relentless open-weight model surge — all painting a picture of an intelligence economy accelerating past any prior speed limit. Stories: Nvidia in Talks to Back Perplexity at $30B-Plus Valuation · XPeng's IRON Robot Unit Raises $900M at $6.3B — China's Largest Embodied AI Round · Alibaba Drops…
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