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August 27, 2026, 10:40 PM
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Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless”  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
Politico:
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies  —  The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place  —  The company is rethinking the program less than two months after announcing it  —  Nvidia paused some deals in a new financing initiative …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank  —  The Emirati ‘spy sheikh’ backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank  —  The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred …
Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms  —  The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
Google:
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more  —  Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …
CNBC:
Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong  —  Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursday after the chip giant's revenue guidance reassured investors that artificial intelligence demand will remain strong.
Google DeepMind:
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP  —  Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments  —  Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam.
Bloomberg:
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio  —  Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group  —  Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules  —  Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps.  That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google”
Madison Mills / Axios:
Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1  —  After burning through its IT budget in the first quarter of the year, Uber has now stabilized its AI bills even as usage surges, the company tells Axios.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks  —  Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
More: GitHub, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Time
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Anthropic:
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers
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