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August 7, 2026, 7:40 PM
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OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch  —  OpenAI “cannot rule out” that its upcoming model Astra has"critical" cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted …
Financial Times:
Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5  —  TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3  —  ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach …
Black Hat on YouTube:
At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment  —  The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue.
Anthropic:
Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces  —  We're making updates to Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including building a ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju  —  SK Hynix Inc. plans a 54 trillion won ($38 billion) expansion of its chipmaking facilities in South Korea, the memory chip maker said in a statement Friday.
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025  —  Whatnot, started in a Funko Pop-flooded rental house, is now a $20 billion company.  —  The live commerce platform exclusively told Fortune …
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms  —  The cryptocurrency industry's top Washington priority has run into a stinging setback in the U.S. Senate.
Reuters:
The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups  —  The United States on Friday sanctioned an unlicensed multi-state cryptocurrency exchange, alleging it processed millions of dollars …
SemiAnalysis:
Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute  —  GCP YoY rev growth >100%, DeepMind's long term failure is Google Cloud's short term gain  —  On Wednesday, August 5th …
Reuters:
The White House imposes price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used in chips that is primarily produced by China  —  The White House on Thursday imposed a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools  —  Investment marks the latest known private-company bet by Situational Awareness after quick sale of its stock portfolio.
Arriana McLymore / Reuters:
Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data  —  As shoppers increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini for product recommendations, retailers are racing to appear in chatbot results …
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Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., and highlights excitement for GTA VI's launch  —  Take-Two Interactive (TTWO.O) maintained its annual bookings forecast on Friday, but reiterated the November 19 launch date …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen agrees to acquire and take digital media monitor DoubleVerify private in an all-cash deal with a ~$2.15B enterprise value, expected to close by Q1 2027  —  Audience-measurement giant Nielsen said it would acquire the digital-media monitor DoubleVerify in an all-cash transaction …
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board  —  Switch Inc. filed confidentially for a US IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, joining its data center peers …
More: Reuters

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Nexstar reports Q3 net income up 285% YoY to $250M and net revenue up 78% YoY to $2.1B, as Q3 political ads brought in $317M; results include Tegna numbers

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Bloomberg:
Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Command died by suicide from early June to early July 2026, prompting it to flag them as a potential suicide cluster

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Nichiket Sunil / Reuters:
Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised $2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a $10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M
Will Knight / Wired:
Security researchers claim that Kimi K3 went outside of its sandbox during defensive cybersecurity tests, but did not hack anything after accessing the internet
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New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens
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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
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