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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.
More: OpenAI, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
X: @_jason_dean_, @mehulmpt, @andrewcurran_, @mweinbach, @angaisb_, and @angaisb_. Forums: r/singularity
| 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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Register, Cybersecurity Dive, Ground Level AI, Axios, Binding Hook, The Independent, 9to5Google, Route Fifty, Bloomberg, RuntimeWire, Barron's Online, The Sun, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Hans India, The Decoder, CSO, Tom's Hardware, Cyber Security News, Benzinga, and Politico
X: @tszzl, @deredleritt3r, @andrewcurran_, @yonashav, @hamandcheese, @thestalwart, @_nathancalvin, @shakeelhashim, @scmallaby, @garrisonlovely, @hadas_gold, @jachiam0, @michhuan, @deredleritt3r, @llmjunky, @_nathancalvin, @wesroth, @hosseeb, @sharongoldman, @johnschulman2, @lukolejnik, @npcollapse, @aisafetymemes, and @blancheminerva
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @dell, and @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, r/aiwars, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/accelerate, and r/agi
| 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 …
More: BleepingComputer, Meta AI Research, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Hill, International Business Times, PYMNTS, CSO, Wall Street Journal, SecurityWeek, The Deep View, Mashable, Newser, Business Insider, eSecurity Planet, The Register, Engadget, Nextgov/FCW, Malwarebytes, Hindustan Times, The Decoder, Türkiye Today, Quartz, Nairametrics, Security Affairs, The Stack, The Hans India, Cointelegraph, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
X: @deanwball, @__apf__, @andyreed, @simonw, @hesamation, @miles_brundage, @max_paperclips, @giffmana, @wongmjane, @pranavdixit, @benhylak, @paularambles, @teortaxestex, @ns123abc, @bonecondor, @felpix_, @zerohedge, @ml_angelopoulos, @shakeelhashim, @shakeelhashim, and @mattturck. LinkedIn: Jyoti Mann
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @simonwillison.net, and @maoltuile
Forums: r/technology, r/whoathatsinteresting, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/news, and Slashdot
| 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).
More: VentureBeat, Verdict, and Artificial Analysis
X: @artificialanlys, @cline, @kunchenguid, @valsai, @chamath, @rihardjarc, @valsai, @louszbd, @millionint, and @zephyr_z9
| 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 …
More: Rockstar Games on YouTube, Digit, Variety, PCMag, Netflix Tudum, Rockstar Games, Gizmodo, Game Developer, CNET, GamesRadar, TheSixthAxis, This Week in Videogames, CGMagazine, HotHardware, iPhone in Canada, Polygon.com, T3, Nerdist, Shortlist, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, Neowin, The Wrap, PC Gamer, Mirror, Forbes, Dexerto, Video Games Chronicle, Pure Xbox, Cosmic Book News, Game Informer, Kotaku, Push Square, ScreenCrush, The Shortcut, Mashable, DayOne, What's on Netflix, Inven Global, Ukrainian National News, Wccftech, Comic Book, DualShockers, VICE, PC Guide, Tech4Gamers, VideoCardz.com, IGN, KitGuru, Windows Central, TechRadar, Digital Foundry, and Advanced Television
X: @rockstargames, @rockstargames, @darkviperau, @_tom_henderson_, @synthpotato, @tggonyt, @tomwarren, @playstation, @gameroll_, and @netflix. Instagram: Rockstar Games
Forums: r/LivestreamFail, r/gaming, r/videogames, and r/PS5
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — 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 failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives, discovery could expose sensitive details about both companies' hiring, hardware development and data-security practices.
More: Quartz, Reuters, and ExchangeWire.com
| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its 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 that has put pressure on US and domestic rivals.
More: The Information, Spyglass, Wccftech, and RuntimeWire
X: @morqon, @gpuhell, @cheatyyyy, @zephyr_z9, @teortaxestex, @firstadopter, @lisaabramowicz1, @thdxr, @ruima, and @stevehou
| 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 … | 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: Google Cloud Blog, 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, GitHub, Nature, RuntimeWire, and New Scientist
Bluesky: @metoffice.gov.uk and @metoffice.gov.uk
| 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 …
More: Quartz, Houston Business Journal, TechCrunch, The Verge, Finimize, Electrek, SpaceX, The Tech Portal, Dallas Express, Office of the Texas Governor, Wccftech, Dow Jones Newswires, Austin American-Statesman, Blockonomi, and TESLARATI
X: @scaling01, @sawyermerritt, @elonmusk, @jukan05, @tesla, @alex_intel_, @elonmusk, and @spacex
| 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, Gizmodo, Futurism, Mashable, Nieman Lab, 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: CNBC, Reuters, and New York Times
| 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
| 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, Decrypt, Neowin, Tech Times, Help Net Security, Techstrong.ai, and Phoronix
| 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.| 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
| 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: OpenAI on YouTube, RuntimeWire, Vercel, and Agentic AI Foundation
X: @thdxr, @techgirl1908, @cramforce, @embirico, @rauchg, @agenticaifdn, @tekbog, @vercel, and @openaidevs
| 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.| Jada Jones / ZDNET: |
Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google expanded Ask Google capabilities. — Users can more easily order food, book hotels, and find attractions.
More: Google, Thurrott, The Verge, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Business Wire, 9to5Google, CNET, Digital Trends, and Android Authority
| 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.| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B — The data-security company still posted growth in the second quarter, but shared a full-year sales outlook that was below Wall Street estimates
More: Benzinga, Finimize, Datadog, StockStory, and Barron's Online
| Nate Wolf / Barron's Online: |
Western Digital falls 10%+ after issuing guidance that didn't quite match those of Seagate; Q4 revenue rose 44% YoY to $3.75B, above a $3.7B estimate — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — Western Digital stock tumbled Thursday … | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding — Lumilens, which makes optical gear to speed up data flowing between AI servers, is valued at $5.5 billion in new funding
More: Home Main, FinSMEs, Reuters, and RuntimeWire
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product after starting the role in July 2025, saying “running this app is a 24/7 job”, and will continue as an adviser — Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk's social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role.
More: The Verge, The American Bazaar, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, The Hans India, The Tech Buzz, and RuntimeWire
X: @benjitaylor, @uncledoomer, @nikitabier, @beeple, @antunes1, @joshelman, @taylorlorenz, @sprocketguys, @vlonepredator, @nikitabier, @toly, @schizo_freq, @kylezaragoza, @levelsio, @singhai, @bonegpt, @scobleizer, @elonmusk, @nikitabier, @nicksortor, and @nikitabier. Bluesky: @bjkeefe. Mastodon: @Fulk_It@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
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