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An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins — abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
More: Business Today, The Cyber Express, Neowin, The Indian Express, Android Authority, RuntimeWire, Cyber Security News, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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LinkedIn: Julian Harris, Kirk Nesbitt, and Ron Arnold
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @nickdmiller, @joeycoleman.ca, @anatolkirichenko, @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz, and @shartymcscrote
Mastodon: @Ex_spurt@aus.social and @ai@defcon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/australia, r/aussie, and r/technology
| Shane Burke / The Information: |
After New York and Texas added statewide data center restrictions, 500+ US towns and counties have passed bans or restrictions, up from 300+ in late June — Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic …
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| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
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| Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: |
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon's Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind.
More: FUNDA, Counterpoint Research, The Decoder, The Observer, Memeburn, and Taipei Times
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @edzitron.com
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
An in-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the Hugging Face hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI doesn't get it — Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. — For those who want all the details …
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?
Bluesky: @kentindell
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns — Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget. — Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked …
More: Podnews, Podnews, LinkedIn, Net Influencer, Digital Music News, and Spotify
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups — The strategy marks a break from Beijing's reliance on subsidies and state funding. — Even by the frothy standards of the AI era …
More: Daily Sabah
| Richard Holmes / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China — Special forces boats set for use in planned Gulf missions were fitted with Chinese-made components
More: The Sun, Neowin, Mirror, GB News, and NewsMax.com
Forums: r/CanadianInvestor, r/ukpolitics, and r/Intelligence
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 — TOKYO/KUMAMOTO, Japan/TAIPEI — Sony Group and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plan to begin mass production …
More: Bloomberg, Euronews, Automotive World, Reuters, The Japan Times, and Tech in Asia
| Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New large language models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China's artificial intelligence ambitions.| Wall Street Journal: |
How credit card issuers and reservation apps like OpenTable and Amex-owned Resy fragment restaurant reservations, wiring the best tables into premium card perks — After a flurry of deals, new apps, membership clubs and other middlemen are fighting over access to high-spending customers and the eateries they love| Liam Knox / Bloomberg: |
Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched — People are anxious to show they've learned the technology, even if it's hard to predict what skills employers will be looking for.
X: @business
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from August 14, claiming it catches harmful actions better than humans — Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (via) Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode …
More: Business Today, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Claude, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, and Blockchain.News
X: @trq212, @bcherny, @claudedevs, @claudedevs, @namiixbt, @the_alex, @kunchenguid, @trq212, @kienbuilds, @claudedevs, @claudedevs, and @st3v3li. Bluesky: @sipirtu.com. Forums: Hacker News
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