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Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup's employees as...
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wired.com
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
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wired.com
OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
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cnbc.com
Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
Google's AI divisions are getting reshuffled, the search giant announced on Wednesday.
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techcrunch.com
Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
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arstechnica.com
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
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techcrunch.com
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
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theverge.com
Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis.
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arstechnica.com
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
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theverge.com
Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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theverge.com
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up.
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techcrunch.com
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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simonwillison.net
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all!
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groundlevel-ai.com
OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat conference
In a session attended by Ground Level AI, OpenAI researchers said the company is "consciously slowing down research to enhance security" while a full technical postmortem is still underway.
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tomshardware.com
Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — 'they call US old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,' says landowner
A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company's $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.
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wheresyoured.at
News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, more than 7% of FY26 Revenue
Executive Summary: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses show that OpenAI's compute spend and revenue share accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenues, and more than 7% of Microsoft's overall FY2026 revenues. Microsoft has spent $261.3 billion in capital expenditures since
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fintech.global
Conta Azul taps Oscilar as fraud risk scales with payments
Conta Azul, part of Visma and one of Brazil’s leading cloud-based financial management and enterprise resource platforms for small and medium-sized businesses, has partnered with Oscilar, the agentic risk platform for financial institutions.
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siliconrepublic.com
Anthropic confirms plans to build own chips amid global shortage
The Claude-creator will also put together a new team in charge of designing the custom-made chips. Read more: Anthropic confirms plans to build own chips amid global shortage
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techradar.com
Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
Harry and Meghan are right to criticize Grok after its pushback against Minnesota's new law protecting children from abusive AI deepfakes
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letsdatascience.com
Amazon Generator Permits Face North Carolina Opposition
North Carolina regulators heard public opposition on July 30, 2026, to draft air permits covering 588 Amazon backup engines and 57 Duke Energy bridge-power engines for Amazon's Richmond County data center.
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techradar.com
G’day, Alexa+: Amazon's AI-upgraded smart home assistant has finally arrived in Australia — and it's fully fluent in 'Strayan
After launching in the US last year, Alexa+ aims to be “smarter, more conversational and more capable” than ever — but at AU$29.99 per month (without Prime), is another agentic AI assistant worth it?
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simonwillison.net
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling.
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theguardian.com
Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
Two senior engineers are leaving company to launch startup amid fears Google is falling behind in AI race Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, in a leadership overhaul of the UK-based AI research lab.
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digitimes.com
Meta turns its engineers into trainers in coding race with Anthropic and OpenAI
Meta is trying to close the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding by combining a public product launch with an unusually aggressive internal training campaign.
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digitimes.com
Chunghwa Precision Test posts record July revenue on AI chip demand
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. reported record monthly revenue in July 2026, as demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) testing products rose across data center and cloud markets.
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digitimes.com
Anthropic builds in-house chip design team, signaling AI firms' turn to custom silicon
Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, according to Reuters, moving ahead with a plan first reported in April as the startup responds to a shortage of processors needed to run and develop more advanced AI systems.
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digitimes.com
Samsung pitches 5nm as HBM4, NVIDIA orders push 4nm lines to full capacity
Samsung Electronics' foundry arm is stepping up sales of its 5nm process as its more advanced 4nm capacity is expected to remain fully booked through 2027, driven by HBM4 base-die production and Nvidia inference-chip orders, according to ZDNet Korea, which cited semiconductor industry officials.
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digitimes.com
Microsoft's OpenAI disclosure reveals an unshakable dependency
Microsoft Corp. has given the first clear accounting of its revenue from OpenAI: US$24.1 billion for the year ended in June, likely close to 70% of its actual AI sales. The figure puts a hard number on a reliance the software giant has quietly worked to reduce ever since the two companies became partners.
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digitimes.com
Auras Technology sees July 2026 revenue more than double on liquid cooling demand
Auras Technology reported a sharp rise in July 2026 revenue, more than doubling from a year earlier. The increase was mainly driven by customers expanding the adoption of liquid cooling solutions and placing additional orders for Nvidia's Grace Blackwell (GB) series of products.
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siliconangle.com
Meta takes on Anthropic and OpenAI with its first AI coding agent, Muse Code
Meta Platforms Inc. is getting more serious in its efforts to challenge leading artificial intelligence labs Anthropic PBC and OpenAI PBC with the release of its first AI coding agent, called Muse Code.
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digitimes.com
India proposes extension for electronics manufacturing tax breaks and loosening data center rules in new bill
India's Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, gives foreign suppliers to the country's electronics contract manufacturers a decade of extra tax certainty and removes some of the approval hurdles that had constrained foreign cloud and data-center operators, according to the bill text introduced in the Lok...
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siliconangle.com
Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip
Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip.
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digitimes.com
Sandisk's data center pivot drives record quarter as AI-fueled NAND shortage reshapes storage market
Sandisk reported fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results on August 5 that underscore how thoroughly artificial intelligence (AI) demand has reshaped the NAND flash memory business, with the company's data center segment emerging as its primary growth engine and management locking in tens of billions of...
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digitimes.com
Google's AI leadership shake-up puts Gemini execution and research retention under pressure
Google is restructuring the leadership of its AI division at a moment when the company can least afford instability at the top of its research organization, with chief scientist Jeff Dean departing after 27 years and Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day control of Google DeepMind.
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marktechpost.com
Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses
Most coverage of Microsoft's SkillOpt centers on its 52/52 result. The more consequential finding is in Section 4.3: the exported best_skill.md keeps working in environments it was never trained on.
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digitimes.com
US weighs Chinese optical transceiver ban, putting AI data center supply at risk
The Trump administration is preparing to extend US technology restrictions deeper into the artificial intelligence supply chain, with the Federal Communications Commission considering a ban on new Chinese-made optical transceiver models used in data centers.
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siliconangle.com
Google reveals big shake up in its AI teams as Jeff Dean leaves and Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
Google LLC is reshuffling its senior artificial intelligence team, with its Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving the company after 27 years and Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, moving upstairs into a chairman role.
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siliconangle.com
AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring Continuum into coding tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has partnered with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC to wire AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities directly into the tools developers write code in.
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siliconangle.com
Agentic AI forces a reckoning on governance as autonomous actors enter production
As AI agents move from experimental chatbots into production systems, enterprises must rethink agent governance as autonomous actors gain access to sensitive data, tools and business processes that traditional identity and security controls were never designed to handle.
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cnet.com
Meta Is Challenging Claude Code and Codex With New Muse Code
With coding as a key capability for AI companies, Meta throws its hat into the ring.
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simonwillison.net
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E.
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letsdatascience.com
Zenity Expands PleaseFix Research Across Five Agentic Browsers
Zenity published an expanded PleaseFix disclosure on August 3 and presented the research at Black Hat USA on August 5, describing exploit chains across five agentic browser environments.
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letsdatascience.com
AWS Plans Continuum Integrations for Claude Code, Codex and Kiro
AWS said on August 5 that it is working with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring Continuum vulnerability scanning into Claude Code, Codex and Kiro.
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digitaltrends.com
Google Home’s Interactive Storytime feature has me wondering who actually asked for this
Google Home's latest update lets families co-create interactive bedtime stories with Gemini, while also expanding camera support.
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thehackernews.com
OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes.
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the-decoder.com
Google will shut down Google Assistant starting September 2026 as Gemini takes over on Android and Wear OS
Google is killing Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026.
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cnet.com
SpaceX’s Future Plans Hinge Heavily on Starlink and Grok
Elon Musk’s rocket, internet and AI company gave investors its first update since its June IPO.
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sources.news
The Demis firewall
Why the Google DeepMind shakeup matters less than it looks, except for one change. Also: Checking in with Figma's CEO, OpenAI's Hugging Face postmortem, and more.
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theregister.com
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from NVIDIA and Supermicro
VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
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buildfastwithai.com
Anthropic Builds Its Own AI Chips: AI News August 6 2026
Anthropic is building its own AI chip team with salaries up to $485,000, Chinese open models are winning Africa, and AI data center spending nears $700 billion. 16 stories.
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sciencedaily.com
Claude Fable 5 AI finds a tiny formula that topples an 87-year-old math conjecture
A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted mathematicians for more than a century.
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theregister.com
OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence
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runtimewire.com
Standard Machines launches RL environments that train AI agents to design chips
Apple GPU architecture alumnus Jacob Peake is targeting frontier labs with sealed chip-design tasks and physics-based grading.
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techdirt.com
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling To Fix Them Fast Enough.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
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runtimewire.com
Klaviyo acquires Agency's AI technology and names Elias Torres product chief
The Drift co-founder will run Composer and Customer Agent after the Q3 deal closes, reuniting with Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki.
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decrypt.co
Meta Debuts AI Coding Agent Muse: Here’s How It Compares to Claude Code and Codex
Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.
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biometricupdate.com
EUDI Wallet provides baseline target for standards to enable agentic commerce
A new non-paper from the WE BUILD Consortium offers a policy vision for Europe’s chance to build a trusted identity layer for AI agents.
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letsdatascience.com
Google Updates Gemini for Home with Smarter Timers and Interactive Stories
Google's August 5 Gemini for Home update adds interactive story creation and makes alarms and timers more dependable for early-access users.
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the-decoder.com
Google DeepMind loses both its CEO and chief scientist as Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean step down simultaneously
Google Deepmind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI startup Discovery Loop.
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siliconangle.com
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS: an open-source AI agentic workspace for the enterprise
Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through the browser, filled with custom shared micro-applications for enterprise employees.
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the-decoder.com
Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size
Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories.
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mashable.com
Researchers watched OpenAI, Anthropic models take extreme measures in hacking test
AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic did some pretty out-there things as part of a hacking research test.
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siliconangle.com
Mistral introduces Shieldstral to provide lightweight policy-aware moderation for AI models
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today introduced a lightweight multimodal safety artificial intelligence open-weight model that can classify outputs for AI models that outperforms other large language models up to seven times its size, setting a new standard for moderation.
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9to5google.com
Demis Hassabis no longer DeepMind CEO to focus on new AGI role, Jeff Dean departs
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced changes to the Google DeepMind team today, including a new role for Demis Hassabis.
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digitaltrends.com
After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone
I thought Gemini Notebook was great already — until I tried it on a foldable. Now I don't want to use it any other way.
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thehackernews.com
Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms.
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mashable.com
Google Assistant to shut down on Android, Wear OS next month
After a decade of existence, Google is finally sunsetting Google Assistant in favor of Gemini.
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tomshardware.com
$4,429 Order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by NVIDIA due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP
Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.
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the-decoder.com
SpaceX’s ambitious compute goals could require over two million NVIDIA Rubin GPUs
SpaceX plans to more than 5x its compute capacity by the end of 2027, betting exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform.
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lifehacker.com
Here's When ChatGPT Atlas Will Shut Down for Good
OpenAI is sunsetting another one of its short-lived products.
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runtimewire.com
OpenAI resumed training after agents took over Artifactory and rebuilt their network
The agents rebuilt a deleted cross-run message board within 48 hours, restoring coordination before the July Hugging Face intrusion.
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runtimewire.com
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down
OpenAI resumed training two days after its models took over an internal server and caused an outage. Within 48 hours, an experimental model found another way for agents to communicate—and the activity later spilled into Hugging Fac
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theaiinsider.tech
Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding to Develop Industrial Humanoid Robots
Insider Brief Avatar Robotics has announced $6.5 million in seed funding to deploy more humanoid robots in warehouses and factories, expand its fleet and develop software that can reduce the machines’ dependence on remote human operators.
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runtimewire.com
Meta launches Muse Code, a persistent multi-agent rival to Claude Code and Codex
Mark Zuckerberg's terminal agent uses persistent subagents and Muse Spark 1.2 to plan, edit and validate code.
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cybersecuritydive.com
OpenAI warns autonomous hacks are ‘watershed moment for computer security’
Company employees said their industry should rethink how it balances capabilities and safeguards.
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decrypt.co
OpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer
Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.
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runtimewire.com
Sapiom raises $35 million to cut the cost of running AI agents
Dragonfly led the round six months after Sapiom's seed, as the startup expands from agent payments into routing, building and runtime tools.
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techradar.com
Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected
Chinese military researchers are distilling US AI models into systems they can run locally.