A campus gets guaranteed, a tariff ties to the hour, a bar comes down
Today's 3 verified headlines: NVIDIA guaranteed a data center campus in Ohio targeting 8 IT-GW with OpenAI leasing for 20 years; DeepSeek opened its agent software under MIT and tied API pricing to the time of day; and Google markedly lowered the bar for owning your own card in search results. Each story's full analysis, sources and business impact live on its own page.
NVIDIA guarantees the PORTS-Pike campus in Ohio
Per the NVIDIA release dated August 17, 2026, the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus being built in Pike County, Ohio will exclusively host NVIDIA AI compute. An initial 4.25 IT-GW was secured with an option on the remaining 3.75 IT-GW for a total target of 8 IT-GW, fed by 10 GW of new power generation. SB Energy will build, own and operate the facility under a 20 year lease to OpenAI, and NVIDIA is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy. Per reporting based on the SEC 8-K filing the guaranties carry a cumulative cap of $105 billion, a figure absent from the official release.
DeepSeek open sources its agent software and ties API pricing to the hour
Per a report from The Decoder dated August 13, 2026, DeepSeek released an agent platform called Harness v0.1 under the MIT license, where all features are swappable plugins from tools and sandboxes to sessions and the UI. The new model is deepseek-v4-pro-0813 and existing integrations need no changes. Pricing effective August 16 comes in two tiers: off peak $0.66 input and $1.98 output per million tokens, at peak $1.32 and $3.96. Per Artificial Analysis the model rose from 45 to 53 on the Intelligence Index, behind Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3.
Google lowers the Search Profile bar to 35,000 followers
Per a Social Media Today report dated August 16, 2026, Google lowered the eligibility bar for Search Profiles, which give brands and creators a centralized presence in search results. The follower requirement dropped from 100,000 to 35,000 on YouTube, Instagram and X, and from 300,000 to 100,000 on TikTok. Profiles carry a header image plus links to articles, videos and social posts, and users can follow directly from the listing. Google also opened new reports providing search term, ranking and search volume data.
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