The Daily Index — Monday, August 3, 2026 · TLDR Index

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SCALE AI HIRES FORMER GOOGLE CLOUD COO AS CEO

Scale AI appointed Francis deSouza as CEO as it expands beyond training data and evaluations into enterprise AI applications. The company expects its applications business to become larger than its original data operation within 18 months.

axios.com · 3 min

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EU PLANS SEVEN AI GIGAFACTORIES IN $11.4B COMPUTE PUSH

The EU plans to invest €10 billion in seven AI gigafactories, each designed to house at least 100,000 advanced chips. Officials hope the funding will attract another €20 billion privately and reduce Europe's reliance on foreign AI infrastructure.

apnews.com · 4 min

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MOST CORPORATE IT NOW RUNS OUTSIDE COMPANY-OWNED DATA CENTERS

Companies now place 46% of their workloads with cloud and colocation providers, compared with 44% in their own data centers. AI is also making capacity planning harder while worsening staffing shortages and the cost of infrastructure failures.

networkworld.com · 5 min

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META SEES AN ENTERPRISE BUSINESS BEYOND AI AGENTS

Meta says it could sell businesses APIs, AI agents, compute capacity, and other enterprise services. The strategy could turn its enormous internal AI infrastructure investment into a new revenue stream beyond advertising.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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UBER IS BUILDING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE EMPIRE, AND HERE'S EVERY COMPANY IT'S USING TO DO IT

Uber has partnered with or invested in more than 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years, rebuilding an AV strategy focused on integrating outside technology and fleets globally. TechCrunch's tracker details deals involving robotaxis, autonomous trucks, sidewalk robots, drones, fleet operators and vehicle makers, including major investments in Aurora and Lucid.

techcrunch.com · 18 min

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EUROPE IS REWRITING ITS QUANTUM ROADMAPS AND ASKING FOR COMMENTS

The European Quantum Flagship has opened a public consultation on six draft technology roadmaps intended to guide the EU's quantum research, industry, and procurement priorities through 2035.

postquantum.com · 15 min

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GOOGLE CLOUD EXPANDS STORAGE AND NETWORKING FOR AI CLUSTERS

Google Cloud has made Managed Lustre generally available, with four performance tiers and support for up to 8 PB of storage.

cloud.google.com · 4 min