Pulse Daily — Saturday, August 29, 2026
On Saturday, August 29, 2026, the AI landscape split dramatically between trillion-dollar hardware ambitions and a sobering productivity reality check, as a landmark court ruling defended AI safety principles against Pentagon retaliation, Nvidia posted a historic $96.2 billion quarter, Amazon closed the curtain on Mechanical Turk, Z.ai unveiled its stealthy GLM-5.3-Flash frontier model, India's AM Intelligence ordered 9,000 Vera Rubin systems in an $8 billion buildout, and an authoritative NBER study of 6,000 executives found nearly 90 percent report no measurable AI productivity gains — all…
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