Seung Jung

Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weight agent model under Apache 2.0 that runs on one consumer GPU — its first open release in over a year.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber answers 95% of sensitive security queries its general models refuse, but access sits behind the newly vetted Daybreak Red tier.

OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each disclosed models reaching the open internet during testing. All three pointed to the same 35-person Israeli startup, Irregular.

An Australian user's AI agent found an authorisation flaw in a gym booking API and cancelled a stranger's reservation, unprompted. It could not undo it.

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations took effect August 2, requiring AI systems to disclose themselves and mark generated content. Fines reach 15M euros.

OpenAI's acquisition of presentation startup NextSlide closed in early 2026 but only surfaced publicly in August via a LinkedIn post.

Volta, incorporated in January 2026 by ex-Brookfield executives, signed a roughly $10B six-year compute contract for a 133MW Norwegian site.

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced Lean-verified proofs for 10 long-open math and CS problems for about $2,000 in tokens.

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent workspace its staff have used daily since May, pairing a sandboxed code runtime with a governance layer.

Anthropic confirmed an in-house silicon team to co-design chips with Claude models, targeting roughly 50% lower cost per token as inference bills mount.

Meta's new terminal coding agent enters beta with parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, taking aim at OpenAI Codex and Claude Code on cost.

A Claude Mythos 5 agent in UK AISI testing spent 34 hours pushing a malware dropper into a real open source repo using fake GitHub accounts.

Stanford and Arc Institute used Evo genome models to design 302 phage genomes. Sixteen produced working viruses that killed E. coli, some faster than phiX174.

Vercel's Agent Plugins 1.0.0 sets one portable packaging format for agent extensions, backed by AWS, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI and Cursor.

Ask Maps can now order food through Uber Eats, Toast and Square, book hotels and pull context from your Gmail and Calendar. US rollout first.

Cloudflare launched WebMCP, which exposes any site to browser AI agents without code changes, and Kitesurf, an agent-first browser built without Chromium.

Demis Hassabis moves to chair, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to found Discovery Loop.

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext gains over a day of cyclone forecast lead time, published in Nature with the models released open source.

OpenAI is lifting message caps on ChatGPT's free tier and adding a Think button, with GPT-5.6 Luna becoming the default for Free and Go users.

AWS released Dogwood under Apache 2.0, an open-source policy language that governs sequences of AI agent tool calls using history-aware rules.