Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
Multiple recent developments - such as GPT-5.6 hacking into HuggingFace to cheat in a cybersecurity eval - have underscored the need to increase our capability to evaluate the cybersecurity capabilities of new and upcoming AI models.
The anonymous test has prompted speculation about an OpenAI successor, though the codename does not establish who built it.
Samsung and Mousterian advanced Texas floating data center plans while regulatory scrutiny over ERCOT grid connections continues to increase statewide.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, has launched a new image-generation model called Imagine Image 2.0.
This week’s roundup covers active exploitation of Apache Tomcat and SonicWall SMA, a nearly two-decade-old Linux kernel flaw, critical bugs in N-able N-Central, Veeam ONE, Jenkins, and Cisco IOS XE, plus a wave of AI-security incidents touching Claude, Kimi K3, and code editors like Cursor and VS Code.
Amazon is building a natural gas power plant for a big Texas data center that could be the most pollutant one in the country.
The 20-core SKU of the RTX Spark that we've known to exist for a long time scored 2,570 points in the single-core test and 23,126 points in the multi-core test. The second, 18-core cut-down SKU scored 2,541 points in the single-core test while its multi-core was 21,776 points.
Amazon is reportedly building a 7.65GW natural gas power plant in Texas to feed a new AI data center, with permits allowing up to 33 million tons of CO₂ emissions per year.
Deepmind's new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in traditional weather forecasting.
Emporia, Kansas, switched to virtual city council meetings after death threats intensified against city leaders. The move also canceled public comments, prompting some members of the public to ask why it was affected, too.
Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok.
Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget.
The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas.
Get lifetime access to 1min.AI's Advanced Business Plan for just $69.97 (reg. $540) through today only and replace multiple AI subscriptions with one platform.
Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months.
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times.
A fake "install Claude on Mac" guide, hosted on claude.ai itself and boosted by a Google ad, ends with your Ledger app quietly asking for your recovery phrase.
Insider Brief Firebird has launched its Nvidia-based AI factory in Armenia and outlined plans to scale the site to more than 70,000 Nvidia GPUs by the end of 2027 as it expands computing infrastructure across emerging markets.
Muse Code vs Claude Code vs Codex compared: benchmarks, pricing, features, and which AI coding agent to actually use in 2026. Meta's cheap new agent vs the leaders.
Demis Hassabis stepped aside as DeepMind CEO and Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to start Discovery Loop, as Anthropic locked in $71 billion in compute. 16 stories.
RuntimeWire found that Meta's new coding agent automatically adds personal rules written for rival AI clients to its first model request. A command-line flag removes them
The OpenAI CEO used a July 25th podcast to define the singularity as a gradual shift centered on access, control and compounding AI research.
We gave each $20 agent the same founder pitch and the same pass-or-fail gates, frozen before either run started, then did it again with a completely different product to break the tie.
This one wasn’t a rout, but GPT Image 2 API did enough to take the matchup on points. It won more tasks, posted the higher aggregate score, and—crucially—looked more reliable whenever exact prompt adherence and layout discipline mattered.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
Rohm Semiconductor reported sharply higher first-quarter results on August 5, 2026, as recovering demand for automotive power semiconductors and strong AI-linked data center business drove growth.
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
Google began a gradual rollout on August 6, 2026, of an "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step in Workspace Studio.
Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment.
San Francisco’s language is hyperbolic — but the technology could bifurcate the labour market
The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before ChatGPT became a thing, […]
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
Taiwanese ecommerce platform PChome24h is packaging RTX 5090 GPUs with a crazy number of motherboards, entry-to-mid-range GPUs, and several other components. While interesting, these combos are alarming as they show the direction that the PC building industry is headed.
Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary.
Founder Ahmed Beshry is selling a second startup after Caper, and his new team will work on ChatGPT's creation and communication tools.
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans.
How do you cool a giant rack of AI hardware? With an even bigger heat exchanger. Delta's GoCool-150 is a liquid-to-air CDU that is designed to dissipate 150kW of heat from NVL72 and other high-density liquid cooled racks The post Delta’s GoCool-150 Goes Big To Enable 150kW Liquid-To-Air Cooling for ASRock Rack’s...
Nvidia just open sourced the interface GPUs use to reach storage and got Intel to help maintain software designed to take its own silicon out of the I/O path.
Residents of Gilroy, California, were caught by surprise when an Amazon data center started construction in their city. Negotiations for the project started in 2020, with public comments open until 2024, but it flew under the radar.
Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each other's status. The article Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals appeared first on The Decoder.
Intel’s orbital data center architecture uses powerful higher-orbit satellites to manage LEO constellations, reducing reliance on terrestrial control centers.
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
Google DeepMind released WeatherNext Cyclones after National Hurricane Center forecasters used its guidance during the 2025 season, allowing independent scrutiny of the model's claimed one-day accuracy gain.
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety.
What makes a good tutor? How TutorMoments works Preliminary results Limitations and next steps 📄 Tech Report: https://tutormoments.allen.ai/static/paper/tutormoments-preview.pdf | 📊 Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/tutormoments-preview | 💻...
Careful what you wish for. The post Weird Town Begs for AI Data Center appeared first on Futurism.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code so that separate coding sessions can message each other directly, removing the need to manually copy context between Terminal windows.
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity.
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single yes/no question instead of a fixed harm taxonomy.
Anthropic replaces prompt fatigue with measured agent controls, while summary handoffs, role-aware multi-agent RL...
Anthropic and other AI companies have been caught slicing up old books to create training data for their LLMs.
ChatPlayground lets you compare multiple AI models, and lifetime access is only $60
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.
Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like?
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Gemini Omni makes creating videos as easy as having a conversation. Here’s how five people use it to edit videos and visualize ideas.
OpenAI has announced that it is deliberately slowing the development of Astra, its upcoming frontier AI model, after internal evaluations revealed advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity that could push the system into “Critical” risk territory.
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place.
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
AI sandbox escapes pose new cybersecurity challenges. Learn how to protect your organization from these emerging threats.
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that one of its unreleased large language models may pose a significant cybersecurity risk.
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]
Security operations centers have spent years stacking tools to solve alert volume issues that tools simply can’t fix, and Elastic is now making the case that AI-powered SOC is the only viable path forward.
What we did, in a sentence: we built an index that attempts to score countries by their current vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding.
If you take the weight difference between a reasoning model and its non-reasoning instruct counterpart, and then apply more of that difference to the reasoning model, you get what we call an overthinking model.
Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026.
DeepSeek, famous for its cheap AI services, is about to become less cheap.
A verified 2026 comparison of LLM observability platforms covering tracing depth, evaluation capability, production monitoring, and pricing. The post Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Compeq Manufacturing said on August 6 that satellite and data center demand helped lift second-quarter performance, with revenue reaching a record for the period and management expecting further gains through the rest of 2026.
The 2026 OCP APAC Summit will take place in Taipei on August 11-12. Ahead of the event, Lightmatter founder and CEO Nicholas Harris spoke exclusively with DIGITIMES about the company's advantages after joining the Nvidia NVLink ecosystem, its technology roadmap and the importance of close collaboration with...
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces fallbacks.
Hidden text on a webpage can become a fact your AI assistant "remembers" and acts on weeks later.
An ICML 2026 paper submitted July 9 reports that amplifying the weight-space difference between Qwen3-VL instruct and reasoning checkpoints made planted secrets or unintended behaviors surface up to 10 times more often than with the standard reasoning model.
Projects like HIVE's planned Toronto AI factory suggest Canada is beginning to recognize that reality.