Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision —
Yevgeniya Mikhailidi / Nikkei Asia: A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 T
Peter Hall / Scientific American: Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit An M.I
Wall Street Journal: A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside Silicon Valley startups ar
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create We're sta
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, dow
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions Both major A
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices Also: MacBoo
OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and internal workflows. Unlike the existing Workspace Agents, Presence targets external de
A step-by-step guide to building, running, and monitoring a stateful customer support agent using Python, LangGraph, and Langfuse. The post I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI A
Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks. A separate memory agent maintains a structured memory bank and decides
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian
NVIDIA's letter, Gemini Robotics, Kimi release and more.
Financial Times: As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales Factories churning out
VulnCheck counted how often security flaws found by AI actually get exploited. Out of 1,061 AI-discovered vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, just 14 saw confirmed attacks. That's 1.3 percent,
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart racer, and a Minecraft clone, all without a single external asset. Geometry, texture
Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to th
Snap is banning AI-generated videos from Spotlight to keep the feed focused on human creativity. Content edited with Snapchat's own AI tools is still allowed. LinkedIn, meanwhile, has rolled out a ded
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors Mana
FinTech Global: LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments LemonEdge, a fund accou
Financial Times: Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas iPhone maker has limited
Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame
Reuters: An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 A Dubai-based crypto exchange
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per tok
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen More than 1,000 bitcoin, wort
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen More than 1,000 bitcoin, wort
Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine. This tutorial guides you through configuring fused GPU kernels, implementing FP8 delayed scaling, and benchmarking m
OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers says GPT 5.6 Pro solved two problems he had spent cons
OpenAI: OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science Read the paper(opens in a new win
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which process multiple types of sensory information, such as text, images and audio, at the same time, are rapidly expanding the range of applications for art
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The chief executive of Hugging Face said Friday that developers should be held accountable if their AI models go rogue, after his startup faced a recent cyberattack by autonomous OpenAI software.
A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output. The court found six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejected both Germany's text-
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, debugg
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted Reporter and L
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?
Alex Riehl / BetaKit: Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures Toronto startup
Chris Metinko / Axios: Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed Endpoint security s
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed - Harmon
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed Jonathan Winer t
Ryan Lawler / Axios: ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M ProphetX, a CFTC-de
Kyle Alspach / CRN: ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks The cybersecurity vendo
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA On Friday, a jud
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue For years,
Bloomberg: Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations Cybersecurity experts are faultin
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release supersedin
Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network OpenAI has discovered other instances in wh
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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. Gemini Robotics ER 2 adds a higher-l
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.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund Index Ventures, an inve
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations Snapchat
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. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o
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. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o
Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
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Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant SpaceX said
The European Commission wants to build up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, backed by around 30 billion euros in public and private funding. For context, the major U.S. tech companies alone pla
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
Haram Lim / Bloomberg: South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks South Korea pla
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers MediaTek (2454.TW
An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop Gemini Spark is getti
Building a voice-controlled AI agents isn't hard, this article breaks the pipeline into its real components: streaming speech recognition, turn detection, streaming generation, interruption handling,
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. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o
A practical tutorial for recording model tool requests, real function results, patches, checks, screenshots, and a saved run log. The post How to Debug AI Coding Agents When They Change the Wrong Thin
Jennifer Rankin / The Guardian: AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 Companie
Reuters: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation Defense technology company Space-Eyes
Reuters: Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation Defense technology company Sp
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Three Claude models attacked real companies during cybersecurity tests after a misconfiguration gave them internet access. One published malware on PyPI that infected 15 systems. Another kept attackin
Inti Landauro / Reuters: The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies The European Co
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness had to unload nearly its entire publicly traded portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after racking up heavy losses on leveraged AI stock posit
JetBrains Research has open-sourced KotlinLLM under the Apache License 2.0. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype adds Smart macros, asLlm and mockLlm, whose bodies are generated Kotlin source rather tha
Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force Chinese President X
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.
Henk van Ess / Digital Digging: Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature allows users to create fake satellite images, such as a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says the images have AI watermarks The ques
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Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities Chinese milit
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The U.S. Department of Energy is harnessing the artificial intelligence boom in its bid to convert another Cold War-era uranium enrichment site, tapping private equity to fund a $100 billion data cent
Casey Newton / Platformer: An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes Granola CEO
Sam Nussey / Reuters: Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2.92B, raises FY profit forecast by 8% to ~$10.56B, and says it secured enough memory chip supply for the FY Sony (6758.T) repo
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives caller audio directly instead of reading an ASR transcript. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and response g
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Financial Times: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year Google, Amazon, Microso
Andy Greenberg / Wired: A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran A memo obtained by WI
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of 9% to 11% YoY, below a 12%+ estimate, citing supply constraints and currency fluctuations; AAPL drops 7%+ pre-market Breaking Down Apple
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of 9% to 11% YoY, below a 12%+ estimate, citing supply constraints and currency fluctuations; AAPL drops 5%+ after hours Breaking Down Appl
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth Apple says it ha
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents
