Your Monday roundup of the technology and security stories that mattered to Australian businesses in the week of 10-16 August 2026.

Nvidia's $500bn financing platforms (10 Aug). MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilise third-party capital for AI compute. Why an MOU is not a contract, and the reported - but not company-confirmed - 25% loan backstop.

The AI price war (11-14 Aug). Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 at half the price; GPT-5.6 Luna cut ~80%; Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 with the Sonnet 5 price rise cancelled; DeepSeek raising prices sharply. What to do about your existing vendor agreement - and why introductory pricing that expires at end-2026 isn't a 2027 budget line.

The near-autonomous AI agent attack on Taiwan (12 Aug). Open-source agent frameworks ...