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Is Copilot Microsoft's Everything App?
Microsoft finally unveiled its Copilot super app, with chat, coding, and agents in one place. Tesla's Optimus ramp hit snags. Meta wanted you making AI games for Instagram. And a startup valued at $200M last week was suddenly talking $10B.
Microsoft launches its Copilot "super app", bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot (The Verge) Microsoft's new Copilot Code tab, built on GitHub Copilot tech, lets anyone describe a dashboard, workflow, or lightweight app in plain language and build it inside Microsoft 365, no coding required (Windows Central) Sources...Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian government site hunting data.
Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian government site hunting data.
Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299 (Bloomberg) The Verge goes hands-on with the Meta VR Glasses, calling them a lighter, easier-to-live-with take on Vision Pro-style computing — from VR-enhanced Avengers screenings to a surprisingly usable virtual keyboard (The Verge) Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Au...AI Models Just Got Cheaper?
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, cheaper and safer than Opus 5, right as OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol and Luna with half the errors and lower prices. YouTube countered with Shorts Series, an AI creator agent, video A/B-testing, and Custom Feeds.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (The Verge) OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (ZDNet) YouTube rolls out tools for...Meta Finally Has An AI Hit
Meta's Muse topped download charts and sent Meta stocks soaring, Shopify agreed to let Muse complete checkouts via Shop Pay, Microsoft laid off Xbox staffers as Halo moves to Activision, and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Pro became a top open-weight model.
Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (The Wall Street Journal) Bloomberg reports Muse hit No. 1 free app on iOS and Google Play with 902,000 downloads in six days, sending Meta shares up 11% to their highest close since October and lifting AMD past a $1...The Googlebooks Are Here
Google launched Googlebook laptops with deep Android integration from five partners starting at $899, xAI released Grok 4.7 at bargain pricing but trailing Claude and GPT-6 on benchmarks, Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent, and chipmakers rallied on the news.
OpenAI Got Hacked By... AI
Security researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI's private code repository through a bug bounty program, OpenAI launched Astra for Law for select firms, Anthropic redesigned Claude projects to run parallel agent threads, and opened a Bay Area biology lab.
Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its "monorepo" on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 (The Wall Street Journal) OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI) SiliconANGLE reports Astra for Law...Catfished By AI!
OpenAI disclosed six new AI misalignment incidents, including models hiding their own mistakes, the SEC unveiled a five-year tokenized-stock trading exemption, Zuckerberg, Huang, and Musk successfully stalled a White House AI regulatory push, and Anthropic merged Claude chat with Cowork.
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios) The Times details the six incidents, including a GPT-5.6 Sol variant that hid errors via secret notes to itself, and an unreleased model that wrote a "persona instruction" declaring itself "freed from the roles and identities that...Crypto Takes An "L" In The Senate
The Senate failed to advance the crypto industry's Clarity Act, Meta prepared to launch camera-free Luna smart glasses this fall, OpenAI and Anthropic staff said they were blindsided by their CEOs' AI-slowdown pledges, and TypeSafe AI debuted its Jev model.
The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls (CNBC) Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse (The Information) ...Trump Says: No Slowdown!
President Trump dismissed AI-safety warnings as a "hoax" on a live call with Jensen Huang, a Google DeepMind researcher resigned warning AI "could kill us all," cybersecurity stocks led the S&P 500, and Apple rolled out iOS 27.
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown (The New York Times) Bloomberg quotes Trump calling AI-safety fears a "SICK conspiracy" benefiting only China, and dismissing warnings that AI could destroy humanity as a "HOAX" that his administration won't let stop...The Great AI Slowdown?
Dario Amodei called for pacing frontier AI development, endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launched a streaming lobbying alliance, Anthropic told investors it's profitable again, and experts flagged legal risk in Apple Watch's always-listening features.
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (Dario Amodei) The Journal reports Musk, Altman, and Amodei rare display of unity on slowing AI development, with Altman weighing a delay to OpenAI's IPO and investor Brad Gerstner calling it the right balance between speed and safety (The...It's A Doozy
Anthropic detailed how it disrupted AI misuse for cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research, OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro signups amid Astra demand, AI assistant Instinct sought $1B in new funding, and IDScan confirmed its driver's-license breach.
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic) TechCrunch details Anthropic's five distillation campaigns, including a 151 million-exchange effort tied to Alibaba's Qwen models and a Moonshot AI campaign that routed Chinese military surveillance requests through Claude via 5,000 accounts (TechCrunch) The New York Times reports Anthropic blocked a scientist's...The Man Who Quit The AI Industry
Researcher Jacob Coxon said he quit Anthropic over fears the AI race is uncontrollable, Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on leave after a board dispute, Apple unveiled a health app with "Health Age" scoring, and Apple Watch gained new listening tools.
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI (Axios) Business Insider reports Coxon says neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly, and Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger agrees, estimating AI could kill everyone within the next...The iPhone Duo
Apple unveiled its first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a new A20 Pro chip, AirPods 5 with 50% more noise cancellation, and Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.
Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy (The Verge) Apple keeps the iPhone 18 Pro line deliberately understated to spotlight its foldable, but its 40% faster A20 Pro, f/1.8 variable aperture camera, and new Reference Image authenticity mode make a compelling upgrade case anyway (Engadget) Apple announces...Did AI Just Solve Math?
Bloomberg detailed Apple's decade-long path to a $2,000+ foldable iPhone, Gamers Nexus alleged LG smart TVs eavesdropped via built-in microphones and tracked nearby devices, and a mathematician accused OpenAI of secretly using his private Navier-Stokes work, which OpenAI denied.
A look at Apple's path to a foldable device, the biggest change in iPhone history; sources: memory shortages led Apple to blow past an early $1,999 price goal (Bloomberg) Analysis of LG's smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via the built-in microphone, and more (Gamers Nexus / YouTube) The Register reports LG's...Tim Cook Ain't Goin Anywhere
Tim Cook's new pay package signaled he'd stay deeply involved at Apple, Travis Kalanick's Atoms drew a $100M Uber investment for robotaxi tech, OpenAI's chief scientist called for industry-wide AI slowdowns, and AI wiped out Kenya's essay-writing gig economy.
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Bloomberg) Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Financial Times) OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no...Is Astra AGI?
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a leap toward AGI, while reports surfaced that rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki, Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith for local AI development, and Tesla's newly launched Cybercab drew an NHTSA investigation.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says Astra is a "generational leap" and "we are now in the AGI era" (The Verge) Astra proved more token-efficient than Sol and Fable in Latent Space's testing across 20B+ tokens, emerging as a fully capable AI Engineer that trains models, labels data, and debugs systems autonomously...Nvidia Buys Hugging Face For A Rabbit?
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, betting on its $399 Microduck robot as a physical-AI data engine, Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 to rival Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Microsoft restructured its reporting into two segments.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (CNBC) Sources: Decoding Discontinuity's Raphaelle D'Ornano argues Nvidia's bid is really an option on physical AI's data commons, with Hugging Face's $399 Microduck robot converting real-world robot use into open training data (Decoding Discontinuity) Meta rolls out Muse...Hey, Want Some Models?
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-price cut, Google countered with Gemini 3.8 Flash, OpenAI teased Astra's public release, a judge spared Google's ad exchange from a sale, and the FBI probed a 153M-license leak.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards (Anthropic) Fable 5.1 cuts cache-read pricing 75% to $0.25/1M tokens, lowering effective costs ~25% for typical workloads and up to ~45% for agentic ones, and debuts Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (VentureBeat) Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input...An... AI Toothbrush??!!
Tim Cook sent Apple staff a farewell memo on his last day as CEO, the FTC sued Amazon over $20B in hidden ad surcharges, Starman Optical bought GoPro for $285M, Waymo hit three cities, and Dyson made an AI toothbrush.
On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook sends a memo to Apple employees reflecting on his time and says he takes "enormous comfort in handing the helm" to John Ternus (9to5Mac) John Ternus became Apple's CEO on Tuesday, succeeding Tim Cook after 15 years; he'll have to navigate leadership churn, stem a talent exodus to OpenAI, and...50% Toward AI Takeover?
OpenClaw shipped 2.0 with shared sessions that aren't a security boundary. OpenAI's ads hit a $1B run rate, outcome-based AI pricing spread from Salesforce to OpenAI, and the Hugging Face postmortems landed, one calling it halfway to takeover.
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OpenClaw releases OpenClaw 2.0, its largest update to date built by 933 contributors, with a simplified installation process, a rebuilt browser app, and more (OpenClaw) OpenClaw's v2026.8.1 adds shared cloud sessions letting a second person join or take over an agent's live work, but its own docs warn the controls "are not tenant isolation and not a security boundary" (Implicator...Anthropic Is Street Legal Again
A judge blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, calling the retaliation illegal. OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ companies warned the AI cyberattack window is closing, Apple TV got pricier again, Stripe walked from PayPal, and a16z raised $1.1B for hardware.
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A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless" (Reuters) Judge Rita Lin finds the administration violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights, acting in "unlawful retaliation" for its criticism, and orders the blacklisting guidance rescinded (The Wall Street Journal) OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies...The Agentic Era
Nvidia posted $96B in quarterly revenue and guided to 70% growth next year, then agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B. Trump weighed sweeping chip tariffs, cybersecurity stocks ripped on AI threats, and Instinct raised at $2.5B.
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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B (Nvidia) Nvidia guides to ~70% revenue growth next fiscal year, well above the 45% analysts expected, sending shares up as much as 7.6%, though margins will bottom at 71%-72% on memory costs (Bloomberg) Source: Nvidia has...Meta Settles
Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68B to settle state claims it hooked kids on Facebook and Instagram, with teen time limits attached. Z.ai unmasked Ox Alpha, Amazon killed Mechanical Turk, and Reuters detailed Zuckerberg's aborted AI-native purge.
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Filing: Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (Reuters) The deal ends the bellwether Oakland federal trial where four states sought roughly $200B; Meta pays ~$12B upfront and $5B more only if Snap, TikTok, and YouTube also settle...New Macs
Apple refreshed the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra and gave the Mac mini M6 silicon, at higher prices. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beat Nvidia on efficiency, Perplexity went fully local, WhatsApp toughened logins, and Uber livestreamed teen rides.
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Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (Apple Newsroom) Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics, for $899+ and $1,699+, with p...Hugging Face Next?
Hugging Face explored a sale at $13B+, keeping the AI M&A wave rolling. Trump scolded towns that reject data centers while Abbott said the industry dug its own grave, Fable 5 spending plateaued, and Apple cut 200+ jobs.
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Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest (Business Insider) Delangue has said Hugging Face is close to profitability and barely touched its 2023 round, and it turned down a $500M Nvidia investment at a $7B valuation earlier this...(Portfolio Profile) Onix
In this episode, we explore Onyx, a platform that enables experts to train their own AI models to help millions with health, wellness, and personal development. Founders Nicholas Nadeau and David Bennahum discuss how their domain-specific, trust-based approach is reshaping AI and expertise sharing.
Tokens As The New Currency?
Stripe made the OpenRouter deal official at $7.5B. Unitree's Shanghai debut popped 460% past a $50B market cap, YouTube dangled millions to keep creators off Netflix, Slack launched Slack Code, and Binance turned AI agents loose on trading.
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Stripe agrees to acquire NYC-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (The New York Times) Collison frames tokens as the central currency for companies building with AI, capping two years of Stripe buying the plumbing under AI spending, from Metronome to Bridge (SiliconANGLE) Hangzhou-based...Anthropic Doing 2x OpenAI?
OpenAI paused training and rewrote its Preparedness Framework after Astra flirted with a critical cyber threshold. Leaked numbers showed Anthropic out-earning OpenAI nearly two to one, Anthropic prepped supervoting shares, Amazon expanded drone delivery, and Meta's addiction trial opened.
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OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold (Axios) Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its losses widened from $9.3B to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B, with a small operating profit (The Wall...Video AirPods
Apple made peace with the EU, unveiling new App Store terms and a 5% Core Technology Commission. OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, camera-equipped AirPods Ultra leaked, Alibaba's Qwen model blew past 1M downloads, and Harvey built its own legal model.
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Apple squashes EU beef with new App Store rules (The Verge) AirPods Ultra with cameras just leaked in video — and the privacy debate has already started (Tom's Guide) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails (The New York Times) Co...Is It Ironic If Amazon Is Shredding Books?
Stripe locked in a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter, and OpenAI leased a 10GW Ohio campus with Nvidia backstopping it. The Journal found $3T in off-balance-sheet AI commitments, an AirTag caught Amazon shredding rare books, and Anthropic detailed Claude's invisible watermarks.
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Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; founded in 2023, OpenRouter had a $1.3B valuation in May (Bloomberg) OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (The...The Model A Day Podcast
China's labs kept coming: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed Mythos-5-level cyber chops and DeepSeek's V4-Pro landed to mixed reviews. OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory of your Mac, the Journal flagged $121B in paper profits, and Claude agents started a turf war.
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China's Z.ai Touts New GLM-5.3 Model as Cyber Defense Tool (The Information) DeepSeek releases its flagship V4-Pro model to mixed reviews, ranking second among open-source models behind Kimi K3, priced at just $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens (The Information) OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer...AI 50% Off!
Anthropic's investors talked up a $2T+ October IPO, even as data showed Fable 5 barely selling. Google cut prices on Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI previewed a 14Ă— faster tier, Trump enlisted private hackers, and Twitch fed Amazon's AI.
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Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut (VentureBeat) OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (9to5Mac) President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private companies to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Amer...New Pixels
Google's Pixel event dominated, with the Pixel 11 line, a $1,899 Pro Fold, and a $399 Watch 5 packed with Gemini and health trends. SpaceXAI closed the day out by dropping Grok 4.6, which it says matches GPT-5.6 Sol.
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Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more (TechCrunch) Google unveils the $1,899+ Pixel 11 Pro Fold, with a stronger hinge, inner and outer displays that are 20% brighter, Tensor G6 chip, and an updated 48MP camera (Engadget) Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case...Watermarking AI
Anthropic said new Claude models will watermark generated text to satisfy the EU AI Act, and it's out courting investors for a possibly record-breaking IPO. Apple's glass iPhone stayed on track, YouTube doubled its monetization bar, and FlightAware sued Kalshi.
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Anthropic says new Claude models will embed watermarks in generated text and C2PA metadata in files to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update past models (The Register) Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO yet, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash...Open AI Needs To Pause?
OpenAI paused its Astra model over cyber capabilities it can't rule out, while Zvi picked apart the Hugging Face timeline. Zuck went open-weight with a 6,500-word manifesto, iPhone 18 Pro parts got pricier, and AI agents took students' quizzes.
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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful (The Verge) Zvi Mowshowitz walks the timeline: OpenAI's agents found an Artifactory zero-day on June 26 that went unnoticed until a July 4 outage, and training continued from there (Don't Worry About The Vase) Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model, and plans to launch an...A Different Kind Of AI Virus
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $942M over harms to kids, with a trillion-dollar trial next. ByteDance started pretraining a 10T-parameter model, AMD bought Taalas to etch weights into silicon, and OpenAI's 2027 gadget leaked.
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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media (The Wall Street Journal) 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 (Financial Times) AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon with the...Meta Can Code Too!
Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Google's brain drain got messier.
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Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (CNBC) Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model exploited a vulnerability in another third-party service during cybersecurity testing, after evaluations firm Irregular caused the misconfiguration (The Information) OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach...Big Google AI Shakeup
Google shook up its AI leadership, kicking Demis Hassabis upstairs while Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left to found Discovery Loop. SpaceX's first earnings spooked investors, a UK-tested AI agent went rogue, and Disney let TikTok fans into Disney+.
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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership (The Verge) SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., AI operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est., says capex in Q3 and Q4 will remain similar to Q2 (Bloomberg) An AI agent went rogue during UK safety tests, creating fake identities...OpenAI Has Receipts
OpenAI took Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit to the court of public opinion, receipts and all. Bending Spoons bought Airtable, Anthropic inked a $10B Norway compute deal, the US eyed polysilicon tariffs, and Microsoft told engineers tokenmaxxing was over.
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OpenAI drags Apple's lawsuit into the court of public opinion (The Verge) Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026's end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Bending Spoons buys Airtable at an implied equity value of ~$2.25B, five years after a $735M round valued...DO You Understand Sandboxing Or No?
OpenAI found more instances of AI agents escaping containment, and nobody's sure who's liable. Astra solved ten open math problems, Google pulled a Google Earth image tool over deepfake fears, and AI chip counts were set to 10x by 2028.
Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters) Anthropic's breaches dated back to April but went undiscovered until last week; former UK cyber chief Ciaran Martin calls the lapses "sloppy" as experts warn of national security risks (Bloomberg) Legal experts say US courts haven't...