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Daily Spotlight — Oct 31, 2026: Aidan Gomez
Canada buys into Cohere, Google runs Gemma in orbit, Nvidia weighs backing Nscale and AI labs back one scraping opt-out; plus Aidan Gomez and 3 trending GitHubs.
News
Canada takes a stake in Cohere · Cohere
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa will invest up to C$1.6 billion in Cohere, paid in stages, inside a planned C$7 billion round led by Schwarz Group with Nvidia and Bell. Cohere commits to stay Canadian, add 1,000 technical jobs and spend C$1.7 billion on Canadian compute by 2030.
Google’s first data center satellite answers from orbit · Google
Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype, launched Oct 1, ran Gemma 4 on a TPU in orbit and downlinked a haiku about being in space. The satellite carries four TPUs but has power to run one at a time for about 20 minutes; radiation and heat tests come next, with two more satellites planned for 2027.
Nvidia weighs cosigning Nscale’s Anthropic data center · NVIDIA
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee construction and power debt for the first 460-megawatt building at Nscale’s West Virginia campus, which Anthropic has a $44.6 billion contract to use, The Information reported. The deal isn’t signed yet.
AI giants back one opt-out for scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will adopt a proposed IETF “policy token” in robots.txt, letting publishers set their AI training preferences once for every company instead of one by one. The proposal comes from Anthropic’s standards lead Kevin Kelley.
Person of the day
Aidan Gomez — Co-founder and CEO · Cohere
Co-founder and CEO of Cohere. Why now: on Oct 29 Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will invest up to C$1.6 billion in Cohere, part of a planned roughly C$7 billion round led by Germany’s Schwarz Group that would value the Toronto company at about C$35.7 billion, the largest financing ever by a Canadian startup. In return, Cohere has committed to keep its headquarters and incorporation in Canada, create at least 1,000 technical jobs and spend at least C$1.7 billion on Canadian computing infrastructure by 2030. Before Cohere, Gomez was a co-author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer, with his work on it done at Google Brain.
Top GitHubs
A design vocabulary for coding agents: commands to polish, critique and audit UI work and catch “AI slop” before it ships — about 2,300 stars today, past 97,000 (Apache-2.0).
Open-source AI coworkers that each get their own computer (browser, files and tools), with every action checked before it runs and logged after; bring any AG-UI agent — trending today, nearly 9,000 stars (MIT).
Google DeepMind’s library for its Gemma open-weight models — the family whose Gemma 4 just wrote the first AI response from a data center TPU in orbit (Apache-2.0).
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