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‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
Aug 7, 2026
Wired
One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Aug 6, 2026
Wired
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Aug 6, 2026
Politico Technology
House Democrats pitch AI tax to fund worker protections
The legislation would impose a levy on leading AI companies and channel the proceeds into a new Work Protection Administration for displaced workers.
Aug 6, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resourc…
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
Aug 6, 2026
The Verge
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download po…
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
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ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
Aug 6, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case
Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a fo…
Aug 6, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and …
Aug 6, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
Aug 6, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. A…
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
Aug 6, 2026
The Verge
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 di…
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
Aug 5, 2026
Ars Technica
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.
Aug 5, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
Aug 5, 2026
Ars Technica
Google's AI shake-up: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart
Google's AI brain drain continues.
Aug 5, 2026
Wired
AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.
Aug 5, 2026
The Verge
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. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at…
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now
A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA
Aug 5, 2026
Wired
Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Aug 5, 2026
Ars Technica
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
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.
Aug 5, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?
This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence…
Aug 5, 2026
The Verge
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. …
Aug 5, 2026
The Verge
Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague
The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary gu…
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first
Aug 5, 2026
Politico Technology
White House AI vetting plan to exempt lower-cost ‘open’ models
The details of the framework, which would govern the voluntary review of advanced AI models, come after a Tuesday meeting at the White House with top tech companies.
Aug 4, 2026
Wired
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.
Aug 4, 2026
The Register
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller
Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?
Aug 4, 2026
The Verge
AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 pe…
Aug 4, 2026
The Verge
SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company
SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quart…
Aug 4, 2026
Ars Technica
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
Aug 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and…
Aug 4, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Aug 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
Aug 4, 2026