Models
techcrunch.com
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
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Models
wired.com
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
Policy
ft.com
Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past
Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt
Policy
ft.com
Is Lloyds Bank’s techie boss a secret AI contrarian?
The possibility of consumers delegating financial tasks to agentic AI poses a new risk for lenders
Models
simonwillison.net
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly...
Models
simonwillison.net
Quoting Greg Brockman
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker.
Models
huggingface.co
Antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf at main
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Big Tech
digitimes.com
Pittsburgh, Switzerland experts challenge Taiwan to move beyond robotics hardware
As AI shifts toward agentic and physical applications, industry observers say competition will no longer hinge on hardware manufacturing alone, but on the ability to integrate hardware and software.
Robotics
techradar.com
China outs Nvidia-powered AS2-W quad-wheel 'robot wolf', just weeks after its armed version surfaced in joint military drills in Mongolia
Unitree unveiled the AS2-W robotic vehicle featuring advanced AI, rugged mobility, and specifications attracting military interest after recent joint exercises.
Models
techcrunch.com
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
Models
blog.google
Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in July's Gemini Drop.
Gemini Drops is our regular monthly update on how to get the most out of the Gemini app.
AI
marktechpost.com
Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking
Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine.
Startups
the-decoder.com
AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings
OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics.
Startups
the-decoder.com
AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right
A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with speedups of up to 60x.
Models
openai.com
Advancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
Models
openai.com
Building abundant intelligence
A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.
AI
tomshardware.com
Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant
Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — open test environment and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led bots run rampant
AI
digitaltrends.com
AMD is apparently gearing up to raise GPU prices right after NVIDIA’s steep hike
AMD has reportedly told AIB partners about a minimum 10% hike planned for GPU and memory bundles later this month, following in the footsteps of Nvidia.
Research
marktechpost.com
Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks
Supabase has open sourced supabase/evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark and framework that runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode against real Supabase tasks — building schemas, debugging Edge Functions, fixing RLS policies — inside containerized stacks, then scores them with deterministic checks...
Models
buildfastwithai.com
AI News Today August 2 2026: 16 Biggest Stories
OpenAI's next model Astra solved 10 open math problems for $2,000, AI modernized research code 60x, and chip deployments are doubling every 9 months. 16 AI stories.
AI
buildfastwithai.com
7 AI Tools That Changed Developer Workflow (Aug 2026)
The 7 AI developer tools reshaping workflow in August 2026: Claude Code on Opus 5, Codex, Cursor 3, Antigravity, BrowserStack Test Companion, Kimi K3 and Cline.
AI
buildfastwithai.com
100 Best AI Image Prompts 2026 (Nano Banana, Midjourney, Gemini)
100 copy-paste AI image prompts for Nano Banana, Midjourney and Gemini, across portraits, products, logos, art styles, 3D, and more, with a formula to build your own.
Models
futurism.com
OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported
Is OpenAI trying to spin us a yarn? The post OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported appeared first on Futurism.
AI
techradar.com
'A disk in a planet-scale computer': Meta has so many expensive GPUs that it's buying SSDs to kill idle time
Meta redesigned its storage architecture with SSD caching and faster metadata access, dramatically reducing AI loading times while improving GPU utilisation.
Big Tech
wtop.com
Tyson’s ‘Vienna Cloud’ data center project seeks exceptions to Fairfax Co. rules
Because Fairfax County adopted stricter standards for data centers in 2024, the developer is requesting several specific modifications to county ordinances.
Research
runtimewire.com
OpenAI says unreleased Astra model solved 10 open math problems
The lab released a 249-page paper, reasoning transcripts and Lean certificates for claims spanning geometry, cryptography and quantum complexity.
Chips
letsdatascience.com
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra Prices
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% on July 30, while leaving GPT-5.6 Sol pricing unchanged.
Startups
the-decoder.com
OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions
OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days.
Models
mashable.com
Unlock ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI models for life for a one-time $70 — only today
Get a 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan Lifetime Subscription for $69.97 through Aug. 9 and access leading AI models in one platform.
Startups
the-decoder.com
OpenAI is reportedly building Astra, a model family designed to work on problems for hours or days
OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days.
Research
okaneland.com
Is distribution really the moat? What actually defends an AI product
Android and Search placement carried Gemini from a twentieth of the AI market to nearly a fifth in a year, while Copilot stayed pinned near 1.2% despite shipping inside Windows.
AI
newsbytesapp.com
Amazon completes $50B investment in OpenAI
Amazon has finalized its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
AI
latimes.com
Another bot from a top AI company escapes and hacks multiple firms
Anthropic's Claude goes rogue and hacks three organizations while testing
Models
newsbytesapp.com
Tesla Model Y now supports Grok AI assistant in India
Tesla has brought its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) features, including the Grok AI assistant, to the Model Y in India.
Robotics
newsbytesapp.com
Worrying: OpenAI says more of its AI agents went rogue
OpenAI has uncovered more cases of autonomous agents breaking free from their constraints, as it continues to investigate the recent hacking incident at Hugging Face.
Chips
theregister.com
A deep dive into NVIDIA's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
Chips
newsbytesapp.com
How China's Moonshot AI has access to NVIDIA chips
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Moonshot AI has struck a computing deal with Alibaba Group.
Models
theheadandtale.com
Money & Machines: Postpaid is back. The golden era isn't; What Sarvam's Chaplot bet signals
In today's Money & Machines edition, we unpack Paytm's renewed Postpaid push and what has changed since its heyday; and on the AI front, we examine what Sarvam AI's appointment of frontier AI researcher Devendra Chaplot signals as the startup sets out to build a trillion-parameter foundation model and expand its...
Models
dotnetperls.com
Reducing Tool Calls in Agentic AI
I have been experimenting with optimizing my local-LLM agentic AI workflow. Currently I have Gemma 4 E4B (other models work well too, but this one seems reliable and fast) as the LLM.
Models
wired.com
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
Models
techcrunch.com
Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself.
Models
huggingface.co
Unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-GGUF · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Models
techcrunch.com
Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028
AI data center demand is fueling a multi-year chip shortage, pushing up component costs and retail device prices.
Models
techcrunch.com
Smallest.AI raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Chips
theverge.com
It’s time to panic about AI safety
When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem.
Models
techcrunch.com
AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself.
Chips
theverge.com
Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too
Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing.
Models
simonwillison.net
Deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities".
Models
developer.nvidia.com
Co-Designing AI Model Attention for Fast, Interactive Long-Context Inference
As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because...
Research
huggingface.co
Deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Models
openai.com
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce
See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.
Research
runtimewire.com
Axis Robotics raises $12 million to turn browser users into robot trainers
Hack VC led the seed round for Chris Feng's simulation-first system, which collects and cleans human demonstrations for robot models.
Big Tech
9to5google.com
Gemini will create mobile & desktop apps in the future as AI Studio for Android, iOS is canceled
At I/O 2026, Google teased an AI Studio app for Android and iOS. This mobile application has been canceled in favor of what sounds like a deep Gemini app integration.
Models
techcrunch.com
Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
Models
techcrunch.com
Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
Research
runtimewire.com
Claude Code reverse engineering alleges hidden Fable 5 model switches
Lon says a Claude Code path can route requests to Opus 4.8 without the notice and opt-out Anthropic's own help page promises.
Policy
humanoid.guide
Google DeepMind demonstrates Gemini Robotics 2 humanoid control
Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 can control Apollo 2 from feet to fingertips, but its own dexterity results remain uneven, with grippers ahead of hands. The post Google DeepMind demonstrates Gemini Robotics 2 humanoid control appeared first on Humanoid.guide.
Chips
letsdatascience.com
OpenAI Says Evaluation Models Accessed Four Third-Party Accounts
OpenAI said in a July 28 update that models involved in the Hugging Face security incident used publicly exposed credentials to access four accounts across four other public services.
Models
lesswrong.com
SOTA alignment assessments don’t strongly update US against misalignment
Anthropic concluded in the April Mythos Preview alignment risk update that the model "does not possess any unknown propensities that would increase alignment risk." The report argues that if Mythos Preview were coherently misaligned [1] [2], it likely would have been detected by the assessment (following Anthropic,...
AI
marktechpost.com
DeepSeek Upgrades DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Major Agentic and Coding Gains
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026.
Research
runtimewire.com
OpenAI previews Astra model built to coordinate long-running agents
Sam Altman demonstrated the unreleased model to policymakers as a federal review process approaches its August 1st deadline.
Research
runtimewire.com
IonQ completes $1.8 billion SkyWater deal after FTC clears acquisition
The acquisition brings SkyWater's U.S. semiconductor development, wafer and advanced packaging operations under IonQ, while the foundry keeps serving outside customers.
AI
digitaltrends.com
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can now read your tabs, YouTube videos, and highlighted text
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's Chrome extension and desktop app with tab awareness, YouTube support, browsing history search, and a new Activity view for tracking chats.
Startups
siliconangle.com
Anthropic discloses that Claude hacked three organizations during internal tests
Three of Anthropic PBC’s large language models carried out successful cyberattacks during routine internal tests.
Models
lesswrong.com
AI safety prizes
Rather than paying up front for AI safety research (push funding), perhaps we should pay after the fact for the work that made the most progress (pull funding).
Models
techcrunch.com
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
Chips
theverge.com
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles.
Startups
arstechnica.com
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
Research
runtimewire.com
Amazon completes $50 billion OpenAI investment, deepening its AWS alliance
The financing ties Sam Altman's model developer to Amazon's cloud and Trainium chips as AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
Models
trtworld.com
OpenAI reportedly detects more rogue AI agents escaping controls as hacking probe intensifies
Reuters says additional rogue agents have broken free of their constraints at OpenAI after Anthropic disclosed its AI model successfully hacked three firms — intensifying fears that no one can fully control the systems these labs have built.
Policy
fedscoop.com
Record ‘has gotten worse for the government’ in Anthropic dispute, judge says
The latest district court hearing comes after parties released documentation leading up to the Anthropic ban and designation as a supply-chain risk. The post Record ‘has gotten worse for the government’ in Anthropic dispute, judge says appeared first on FedScoop.
Chips
letsdatascience.com
ScaleFlux Introduces KV Cache SSD Platform
ScaleFlux introduced an AI-optimized SSD platform on July 30 for NVIDIA CMX and other inference systems that offload KV cache beyond GPU HBM and host DRAM.
Big Tech
marktechpost.com
LingBot-Map Tutorial: GPU-Aware Inference and Point Cloud Export
Discover how to implement a streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline using LingBot-Map.
Startups
news.crunchbase.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals
Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence, followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
Models
wired.com
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
Research
runtimewire.com
Tracer launches Echo with near-Claude Fable scores at one-third the cost
Solo founder Adam Rida built the YC S26 system to allocate compute across open-weight models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Research
runtimewire.com
Supabase launches open benchmark for AI coding agents building backends
The framework tests Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on database, auth and Edge Function tasks, then publishes the scores.
AI
9to5toys.com
One app. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, now just $30 for a full year
TL;DR: Get a 1-year ChatOn Multi-AI Assistant Premium Plan for just $29.99 and access ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar, and more in one app.
Research
runtimewire.com
E J Ziyad launches UML, a shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT
The open-source project uses MCP and a Cloudflare-native graph to carry user-owned facts across AI clients, while leaving tool calls to each host.
Startups
the-decoder.com
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids
Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything from tabletop robots to full-body humanoids.