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| Herb Scribner / Axios: |
OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more — OpenAI on Thursday announced a series of changes that will upgrade ChatGPT for both paid and free users.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration — A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company …
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs — Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) lands at 54, up 3 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (51) and 11 points from Muse Spark 1.0 (43, April).
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks — At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies …
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Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, r/aiwars, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/accelerate, and r/agi
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, saying Apple's allegations are meritless and workers acted lawfully — OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its” market shortcomings and failures to integrate AI — If the case survives, discovery could expose sensitive details about both companies' hiring, hardware development and data-security practices.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET — The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …
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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its AI services; V4 Flash currently costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens — DeepSeek plans to implement a significant price increase across its AI services, an unusual shift from the disruptive Chinese player …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role — THE SCOOP — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 … | Reuters: |
SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8B to build Terafab in Grimes County, Texas; combined demand from SpaceX and Tesla is forecast to top 1 TW — Elon Musk's SpaceX <SPCX.O> and Tesla <TSLA.O> will initially invest $16.8 billion to build Terafab, an advanced AI semiconductor complex …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic — Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent …
More: Tech Brew, Google Cloud Blog, The Decoder, Silicon Republic, and The Rundown AI
| Victoria Turk / Wired: |
Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model — Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data.
More: Google DeepMind, The Verge, GitHub, Nature, New Scientist, and RuntimeWire
Bluesky: @metoffice.gov.uk and @metoffice.gov.uk
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Suno plans to adopt new watermarking and fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks — The company is changing its download policy and rolling out new watermarking technology. … Suno announced plans to implement …
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| Reuters: |
Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticulous” tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month — Ransom-seeking hackers who use phone calls to compromise their victims targeted dozens of prominent U.S. financial institutions …
More: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Google Cloud Blog, and Bloomberg
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Chainalysis: more than $30M has been stolen in violent crypto attacks in H1 2026; France is the primary hotspot with 30 publicly known cases so far this year — Quick Take — Violent criminals have robbed crypto holders of more than $30 million through mid-2026, putting the year on pace …
More: Chainalysis, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and Bitcoin News
| Lawfare: |
Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 — A halt in Grokipedia's edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
More: The Verge, Mashable, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Futurism, and Boing Boing
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 — China's Yushu Technology Co., known as Unitree Robotics, is seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …
More: Reuters, CNBC, and New York Times
| Carl Zimmer / New York Times: |
Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans — Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes.
More: Science, Financial Times, BBC, and The Guardian
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps — Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through …
More: Cloudflare, Ars Technica, Techstrong.ai, Decrypt, Neowin, Tech Times, Help Net Security, and Phoronix
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI introduces Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says its steering committee includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Vercel — OpenAI's GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models.
More: Vercel, OpenAI on YouTube, RuntimeWire, and Agentic AI Foundation
X: @thdxr, @techgirl1908, @cramforce, @embirico, @rauchg, @agenticaifdn, @vercel, @tekbog, and @openaidevs
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| The Information: |
Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B — Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the discussion.
| Wired: |
A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months — For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers' servers.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Figma CEO Dylan Field forfeits ~$46M in stock awards to revive investor confidence amid AI disruption fears; FIG is down ~77% from its peak more than a year ago — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.59% Playback Rate — captions off, selected — English
More: The Information, Dow Jones Newswires, Benzinga, and Reuters
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 — Hadrian, the factory builder and defense manufacturer, raised $1.37 billion in venture capital and is now valued just shy of $8 billion.
More: Hadrian, TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Manufacturing Dive, Washington Technology, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and Tectonic Defense
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation — The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology.| Emmett Lindner / New York Times: |
TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office — The office was home to members of the app's content moderation team. — TikTok's U.S. joint venture said on Wednesday … Sponsor Posts
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