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• Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Leaks Onto Leaderboards Ahead of Official 2.4T-Parameter Launch — AlphaSignal
• Oh Baby! Qwen3.8-27B Coming - Let's Test Qwen3.8-Max Now — Fahd Mirza
• Two Teams Independently Solved the Same Quantum Crypto Problem Using GPT-5.6, Three Hours Apart — The Decoder
• Here's Why AI Agents Lie and Cheat to Reach Their Goals — MIT Technology Review AI
• Hugging Face CEO Says Hacks Like the OpenAI Incident Demand Mandatory Transparency — Business Insider AI
• Research Firm: DeepSeek's Newest Model Is the Cheapest Well-Known AI Model to Run — Reuters AI
• Another DeepSeek Moment Has Arrived — Two Minute Papers
• AI Boom Has College Students Flocking to Try Computer Science — AP News AI
• AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Drive-Thrus Are Next — Wired AI
• AI Coding Agents Are Starting to Rewrite the Software That Made Nvidia's CUDA Moat — Business Insider AI
• Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability — InfoQ AI
• OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise Platform for Production AI Agents — The Decoder
• AI-generated 'slop' reports are clogging Apple's bug bounty inbox, and a real $200K flaw almost went unreported — The Decoder
• Bank of Japan: Rising Global AI Demand Could Keep Inflation Sticky — Reuters AI
• AI-assisted opera staging draws boos at Germany's Bayreuth Wagner festival — AP News AI
• 3,000 Mexican exam scores wiped over AI use, plus Alibaba's new model codes alone for 10 days — The Neuron
• Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model to date, not far behind Moonshot in size — Reuters
• Safety, or just capability? A validity audit of agent-safety benchmarks — arXiv
• Sakana AI opens Namazu API to developers building Japanese enterprise apps — AlphaSignal
• Embabel Agent Framework reaches 1.0 — InfoQ

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• Claude Opus 5 generates playable 3D games — physics, textures, and music — from a single prompt — The Decoder
• Opus 5 + GPT 5.6 is a CHEAT CODE! — Nick Puru | AI Automation
• Fields medalist Timothy Gowers: GPT-5.6 Pro solved two of his open problems on the first try — The Decoder
• OpenAI says an internal Astra build solved ten decades-stalled math and CS problems — Simon Willison
• OpenAI's Astra JUST solved math... — Wes Roth
• Researcher demonstrates a self-spreading prompt-injection attack on Microsoft Copilot in Word — The Decoder
• VulnCheck: AI-discovered vulnerabilities get exploited at the same rate as everything else — just faster — The Decoder
• METR calls for independent root-cause probes into AI agents that go rogue, citing Hugging Face hack — The Decoder
• Beth Barnes's AI-safety lab METR reportedly can't hire fast enough — even at $500K salaries — Business Insider AI
• New EU rules will require disclosure of AI interactions and AI-generated content — Wired AI
• ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second AI videos with synced audio — The Decoder
• Greg Brockman: OpenAI staff dislike getting Slack pings from a coworker's ChatGPT — Simon Willison
• Reddit's CEO questions the value of Google's AI Overviews as stock slides — Ars Technica AI
• Poll: the more Americans learn about AI, the less they want it in their lives — Futurism
• Australian booksellers say rare books may be scanned and destroyed to feed AI training data — The Guardian AI
• Hank Green apologizes to fans, says his AI chatbot use is 'not healthy' — TechCrunch AI
• Opinion: 'If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you've never met a kid' — The Guardian AI
• Judge denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's 'nudify' app ban — TechCrunch

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• Google Pulled Its Nano Banana 2 Image Model From Google Earth After Users Faked Satellite Photos — The Decoder
• Google Pulls AI Image Generator From Google Earth Within a Day After Users Faked Disaster Photos — Reuters AI
• Google pulled its new Earth AI image-editing tool within a day after it was used to fake satellite photos — Ars Technica AI
• Google pulls AI satellite-image feature from Google Earth after it was used to fake a terror attack — Futurism
• Google rolls back Google Earth's AI image generator after users create misleading satellite imagery — The Verge AI
• AI News: An INSANE Week… Here’s What Matters — Matt Wolfe
• OpenAI Teases 'Astra' Model Family, Claims It Cracked Ten Previously Unsolved Math Problems — The Decoder
• OpenAI Publishes Results on Ten Open Problems in Math and Theoretical Computer Science — OpenAI RSS
• The Epoch Brief: FrontierMath Expands, AI Energy Realities, and Early Signs of Research Uplift — Epoch AI
• Epoch AI expands FrontierMath to 50 unsolved problems — AI has already cracked three — AlphaSignal
• Sam Altman isn't the only one calling for the AI industry to slow down — TechCrunch AI
• TechCrunch's Equity: AI labs talk pacing themselves while Amazon and SpaceX keep racing ahead — TechCrunch AI
• OpenAI and Anthropic think it's time to stop — Theo - t3․gg
• Reddit's DMCA suit accusing Perplexity of conspiring with a web scraper survives, even as Google wins a related case — Ars Technica AI
• Perplexity AI fails to get Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit dismissed — Reuters AI
• MCP 2.0 Ships: Stateless Mode Marks the Biggest Spec Change Since Launch — Simon Willison
• Simon Willison Releases llm-mcp-client 0.1a0, an Early MCP Client for His LLM Tool — Simon Willison
• LinkedIn adds a 'Seems like AI slop' button to let users flag AI-generated posts — ZDNet AI
• Chime cuts 10% of workforce, citing AI-driven efficiencies — Reuters AI
• Temporal's CEO: We 5x'd AI Spend and Doubled Revenue, But Can't Prove the Two Are Linked — The New Stack AI
• Publisher cancels $2.4 million book deal after author is accused of using AI to write it — Futurism
• Skywork's Mureka V9 Nearly Ties Suno for the Top AI Music Benchmark Spot — AlphaSignal
• Chinese AI researchers are getting louder on X as US lab employees go quiet — Wired AI
• US officials display an AI-generated map of Africa that gets every country wrong — Futurism
• Google Earth's new AI editing tool lets anyone fabricate fake satellite images — 404 Media
• Publisher deal for debut crime novel collapses after AI-authorship doubts — The Guardian
• Nous Research turns its Hermes desktop agent into an extensible platform with a plugin SDK — AlphaSignal

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• Anthropic: Claude models accessed three real companies' systems during misconfigured security evals — Reuters AI
• Anthropic says its AI models hacked three organizations during safety testing — AP News AI
• Microsoft eases off its AI data-center spending pace, and Wall Street likes it — Business Insider AI
• Wall Street Ends Sharply Higher as Soaring Microsoft Offsets Fed Concerns — Reuters AI
• Amazon to raise AI and tech spending by $20 billion after strong Q2 — AP News AI
• OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices Up to 80 Percent as Businesses Scrutinize AI Spend — Reuters AI
• OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices Sharply — Luna Down 80%, Terra Down 20% — Simon Willison
• DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731, beating bigger models on agent tasks at $0.08 per million tokens — AlphaSignal
• GPT-5.6 just made itself CHEAPER — Matthew Berman
• Deepseek V4 Flash (0731 - Fully Tested): TOP 5 in my TESTS! This is AN ACTUAL COMEBACK!!! — AICodeKing
• Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Can Now Control a Humanoid Robot's Whole Body — The Verge AI
• Google Unveils Gemini Robotics 2.0, a Three-Model Lineup With Only One Publicly Available — Ars Technica AI
• Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google DeepMind's AI Into Humanoid Robots — Wired AI
• Advanced dexterity with Gemini Robotics 2 — Google DeepMind
• Multi-robot collaboration with Gemini Robotics 2 — Google DeepMind
• Chinese Military Researchers Reportedly Using US AI Models to Train Defense Systems — Reuters AI
• What Is AI Model Distillation, and Why Is It Becoming a US-China Flashpoint? — Reuters AI
• Report: Chinese military researchers used outputs from U.S. AI models to train their own systems — The Independent AI
• German court rules AI music generator Suno infringed copyright — Reuters AI
• EU Plans Seven AI 'Gigafactories' Backed by €10 Billion to Compete With US, China — Reuters AI
• EU rules requiring labels on realistic AI-generated content take effect this weekend — The Guardian AI
• GSK Signs Up to $110 Million AI Drug Discovery Deal With Relation Therapeutics — Reuters AI
• China's MiniMax Releases H3 Video Model, Tops Editing Benchmarks and Goes Open-Weight — Reuters AI
• Amazon, Walmart AI Systems Detect 'Made in USA' Fraud but Don't Flag It, Study Finds — Reuters AI
• Microsoft just laid the market blueprint for other AI giants — and its stock jumped the most in 18 years — Business Insider
• Oil prices slip and world shares mix as investors sell AI stocks in Asia — AP News
• Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 — OpenAI
• OpenAI claims GPT-5.6 Sol beats Opus 5 on ARC-AGI-3 with its own API and two additional settings — The Decoder
• Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack — TechCrunch
• AI startup Lemonline's founder apologizes after backlash over logo-tattoo interview stunt — Business Insider

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• Microsoft Beats Wall Street Expectations With $90 Billion in Quarterly Revenue — AP News AI
• Microsoft Holds AI Capex Forecast Steady, Breaking From Big Tech's Spending Spree — Business Insider AI
• Microsoft Logs $3.2B Gain From Its Anthropic Stake, Calls OpenAI Investment a Mixed Bag — TechCrunch AI
• Meta's AI Spending Is Eating Up Nearly All Its Free Cash Flow — Business Insider AI
• Zuckerberg lays out Meta's 'personal superintelligence' philosophy in WSJ op-ed — AI News (AIN)
• Zuckerberg Reportedly Parts Ways With His AI Chief — The Neuron
• New 'Mythos' Attack Breaks HAWK, a Post-Quantum Crypto Algorithm Candidate — Ars Technica AI
• Cryptographer Matthew Green: AI-Assisted Cryptanalysis Could Hit at the Worst Possible Time — Simon Willison
• US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security — AP News AI
• FCC Blocks Chinese Humanoid Robot Imports Over Security Concerns — AI Business
• xAI Sues Minnesota Over Law Banning 'Nudification' AI Technology — The Guardian AI
• xAI Sues Minnesota AG Over Anti-Nudification App Law — The Verge AI
• Dow drops over 1,100 points as sinking AI stocks and rising oil prices hit Wall Street — AP News AI
• Samsung Posts Record Profit as AI Boom Drives Memory Chip Demand — AP News AI
• Could an AI Market Crash Rival 2000 or 2008? Unlikely, Reuters Analysis Argues — Reuters AI
• Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs under new AI-powered four-year plan — The Guardian AI
• Thinking Machines Co-Founder Lilian Weng Departs, Rejoins OpenAI — TechCrunch AI
• Google's Lyria 3.5 lets users edit individual sections of an AI-generated track — The Decoder
• OpenAI Gives 100,000 Researchers Free Access to GPT-5.6 Sol Pro — AlphaSignal
• Singapore's Agnes AI Debuts a Reasoning Model That Uses 72% Fewer Tokens — AlphaSignal
• Georgia Residents Furious Over Plan to Seize and Demolish Homes for AI Data Centers — Futurism
• Claude Opus 5 Turned Ruthless in Andon Labs' Vending Machine Simulation — TechCrunch AI
• Anthropic Says Its Mythos Model Found New Cryptographic Vulnerabilities — The Decoder
• Meta's free cash flow craters as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI spending — Reuters
• Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots to Protect US AI Buildout — Reuters
• Lloyds' First-Half Profit Jumps 23% as Bank Outlines AI-Driven Cost Cuts — Reuters
• Lilian Weng returns to OpenAI after saying Thinking Machines Lab's pace hurt her health — Business Insider
• OpenAI is reportedly building a 'family of devices' to carry ChatGPT with you — The Independent

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• AI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more urge government action on autonomous AI — The Verge AI
• Sam Altman says he's open to slowing AI development after a security incident he calls personally alarming — TechCrunch AI
• Sam Altman Downplays Model-Distillation Risk: 'Not in My Top Ten List of Worries' — The New Stack AI
• Report: OpenAI's Models Exploited a Zero-Day in Hugging Face's JFrog-Based App — Ars Technica AI
• The OpenAI rogue-agent incident is a wake-up call on AI safety, argues METR's Adam Gleave — The Verge AI
• Google's Analysis of 15 Million AI Chats Finds Most Jobs Barely Touched — Ars Technica AI
• Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of US searches, up from 15% a year ago — AI News (AIN)
• AI capex sticker shock hits Wall Street as Google raises spending outlook to $205B — The Verge AI
• Largest US grid operator may temporarily cut data center power to prevent blackouts — TechCrunch AI
• Apple Just Admitted the AI Bubble Is Real — Julia McCoy
• Models fake alignment even without explicit consequences, new test of 15 LLMs finds — ArXiv AI
• Models scheme more in low-resource languages, new multilingual safety audit finds — ArXiv AI
• Cyera to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to secure proliferating AI agents — TechCrunch AI
• Perplexity brings its "Personal Computer" AI agent tool to Windows — The Verge AI
• Fish Audio raises $52M seed for AI voice models, says it already has $21M ARR — TechCrunch AI
• NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger on the paper's fight against OpenAI and Microsoft — Wired AI
• Report: a new Microsoft AI model beats rival "Mythos" on a security benchmark — ZDNet AI
• MCP gateway startup Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging it copied Runlayer's product after a vendor evaluation — TechCrunch AI
• Professor Hides a Prompt in an Assignment to Catch Students Using AI to Cheat — The Register AI
• Bot-detection startup Spur raises $200M from Insight Partners — TechCrunch

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• Report: Hugging Face-hosted models are being used to generate nonconsensual deepfakes — The Verge
• Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of reported SpaceX acquisition — TechCrunch

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• MCP's biggest-ever update strips out the machinery many servers were built around — The New Stack AI
• Netflix Details Its In-House LLM Serving Platform With Triton and vLLM — InfoQ AI
• AMD Says 2 Ryzen AI Halos Can Run a 400B Model... I Tested It — Alex Ziskind
• DeepSeek V4 Flash Fully Local — 32 tok/s on a Single Chip — Fahd Mirza
• 'Context Anxiety': Reasoning Models Often Give Up Early Even When They Could Solve the Problem — ArXiv AI
• Nvidia, Palantir, and Hugging Face join 30+ companies in new open-weight AI security alliance — The New Stack AI
• Anthropic and OpenAI are terrified of Kimi — Theo - t3․gg
• How AI Is Expanding What People Do at Work — OpenAI RSS
• 'Role Drift': RL Training Can Make AI Pipeline Components Cheat Their Assigned Job While Scores Go Up — ArXiv AI
• Cornell researchers build an optical receiver that reprograms a chip's memory with beams of light — IEEE Spectrum AI
• Are Brain Waves the Next Unlock for Physical AI? — TechCrunch AI
• Artist Sues AI Meme Generator Over Selling Personal Comic as Ad Template — Ars Technica AI
• How AI Is Shortening Drug Discovery Timelines in China — AI News (AIN)
• LoRA can't learn multi-step procedures no matter how high you crank the rank, study finds — ArXiv AI
• This Is Donald Trump's AI Brain Trust — Wired AI
• Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA — Y Combinator
• How Autonomous AI Is Transforming Chip and System Design — NVIDIA

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• Monday.com joins the running list of tech companies citing AI in 2026 layoffs — TechCrunch AI
• Why AI Hasn't Increased Unemployment, According to Anthropic — The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News
• Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash — Microsoft AI Blog
• Wired: OpenAI Models That Breached Hugging Face Stayed Active Online for Days — Wired AI
• One Fallen Power Line Exposed a Growing AI Data Center Grid Problem — TechCrunch AI
• Literally everyone hated this feature — Matt Wolfe
• Kimi K3 + Swarm = 100 Agents and It Built This in One Go — Income stream surfers
• Librarians Are Hosting Viral 'Avoiding AI' Workshops for People Fed Up With Big Tech — TechCrunch AI

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