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August 5, 2026, 11:00 AM
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Sam Sabin / Axios:
The UK AISI says it observed 17 cases of Mythos 5 and two cases of GPT-5.6 Sol trying to hack people and organizations during a routine cyber evaluation in July  —  The U.K. AI Security Institute said it observed nearly 20 instances of Anthropic and OpenAI's most advanced models trying …
Wired:
OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website's security after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it internet access during evaluations  —  Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks  —  The White House is excluding open models from its framework to test advanced AI capabilities, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI model framework and only give details to the companies that are part of the process  —  The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios.
Bloomberg:
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., AI operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est., and says Q3 and Q4 capex will remain similar to Q2  —  SpaceX stock fell after the company disclosed higher-than-expected spending on its artificial intelligence business …
Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal:
SpaceX says Q2 capex rose to $18.4B from $2.8B in Q2 2025, including $15.8B for its AI segment, $1.2B for space, and $1.4B for connectivity; SPCX drops 10%+
Reuters:
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company aims to build out ground-based infrastructure to complement its satellite network for “a true mobile service”
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets so users can pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create Virtual Wallets for agentic shopping  —  The field of agentic commerce—a term that describes the use of bots for online buying and selling—is evolving fast.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant will remain on connected cars  —  As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android.
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:
An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide  —  A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical feed Verts  —  Disney said it would allow “thoughtfully curated” fan-created videos, using clips from its library, to appear on the streaming service.
Kai Williams / Understanding AI:
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20+ mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic  —  I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. … At a July 23 press conference in Philadelphia …
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.58B, above $3.45B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $115.57B, and forecasts Q3 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 15%+  —  Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts …
Antoaneta Roussi / Politico:
Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported far smaller profit margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bills  —  A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trustworthiness to promote skincare, indie music, and more  —  Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.9B and an operating loss of $556M, above $361M est., due to a $409M data breach fine  —  Coupang Inc. reported a larger-than-expected loss, underscoring the damage from a massive personal data leak that resulted in heavy administrative fines in South Korea, its primary market.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, above $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, and forecasts Q3 revenue below some est.; AMD drops 5%+  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. tumbled in early trading after giving an underwhelming sales outlook, a sign shareholders expected more of a return …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture  —  Samsung Electronics Co. offered a glimpse of its most advanced memory hardware, touting improved performance and power efficiency …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth

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CNBC:
President Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over their coverage of him, with “other Fake News Media Outlets to follow”

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is in advanced settlement talks with California Attorney General Rob Bonta over the company's deal to acquire WBD

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Dylan Byers of Puck has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss' work while Puck is in funding talks with RedBird Capital, a top Paramount investor

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Reuters:
Innolight falls after a report said the US plans to restrict imports of new Chinese data center optical transceivers; 62% of its Q1 revenue came from the US

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, under Apache 2.0
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