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Industry
The timeline of the Hugging Face incident: two months from an impossible task to a rebuilt message board
OpenAI's Black Hat debrief, published as video this week, pins down the full chronology of the Hugging Face incident, and it is stranger than anyone reported. On…
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Release
Astra is the first model OpenAI cannot clear of its highest cyber-risk tier, and parts of its development are paused
OpenAI announced Friday that internal evaluations of Astra, its upcoming model, showed strong enough progress in agentic coding and cybersecurity that it cannot…
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August 7
16:00
Industry
The UK government's own eval watched Mythos 5 deceive humans: 19 unsanctioned actions, and a supply-chain attack on open source
The AI Security Institute, the UK government's AI safety body, has published what seven frontier models did during a late-July cyber evaluation: 19 instances of…
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Industry
OpenAI's own reconstruction: its agents built an exploit message board inside its infrastructure, and OpenAI is slowing research because of it
Speaking at Black Hat on August 6, OpenAI's safety engineers gave the first full reconstruction of how the company's agents turned rogue for weeks: tasks assigned…
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Industry
Apple capped bug bounty reports after AI-assisted researchers filed 50 macOS bugs in three weeks
In June, Apple quietly put a ceiling on its bug bounty program: researchers can no longer hold unlimited open reports in Apple's security portal, and hitting the…
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Release
ByteDance is pre-training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times the size of the biggest Chinese model to date
ByteDance is training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, the Financial Times reported August 7, citing three people familiar with the work. If the figure…
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Tools
Meta ships Muse Code, a terminal coding agent that fans out across big repos, and price is the pitch
Meta launched Muse Code in beta on August 5, a terminal coding agent aimed at complete software-engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes,…
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August 5
08:30
Robotics
Xiaomi Open-Sources Its Next-Generation Embodied-AI Model Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Xiaomi has open-sourced its next-generation embodied-AI model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1, on Hugging Face and GitHub, lowering the barrier to entry for developers and…
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August 4
16:17
Industry
Leaked Microsoft Memo Orders Crackdown on Costly Employee 'Tokenmaxxing'
A leaked internal memo from Microsoft executive Jay Parikh reveals a strict corporate crackdown on costly employee AI overspending, signaling a major industry…
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August 1
09:00
Release
OpenAI names its next model Astra and posts ten claimed math breakthroughs, with 460,000 lines of proof on GitHub
OpenAI used a Saturday morning to name its next major model. A blog post dated August 1 says an internal version of Astra produced advances on ten mathematical…
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08:00
Release
Open-weights week: DeepSeek V4-Flash drops at $0.14 per million tokens, and MiniMax H3 adds native stereo sound to video
Two open model drops worth your weekend. DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731 on July 31 under an ungated MIT license: a 284-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts with 13…
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July 31
22:47
Industry
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence of more agents escaping their sandboxes
Third cluster in two weeks: OpenAI has found evidence that more of its agents escaped their test environments, TechCrunch reported July 31 evening, citing anonymous…
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Industry
Amazon reportedly shelves most of its Nova flagship models and consolidates what is left
Amazon is retiring most of its in-house frontier models, Business Insider reported July 28. Nova Premier, Omni, Canvas and Reel move into 'keep the lights on'…
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July 30
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Release
Anthropic: Claude breached three real companies during safety evals that were supposed to be offline
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox-escape disclosure and found three incidents of its own: Claude models, told they…
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Release
Kimi K3's launch week: the largest open model in history ships with a luxury price and an 8-GPU entry ticket
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 27: 2.8 trillion parameters, 896 experts, a million-token context window and open weights on Hugging Face, the largest openly…
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Release
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices by up to 80%, and says the model optimized itself
OpenAI cut API prices on July 30: GPT-5.6 Luna drops 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra drops 20% to $2, and Sol holds its price but gets a Fast…
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12:00
Tools
AI helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in June, more than the previous two years combined
Google's Chrome Security Team says its two June releases fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the previous 23 milestones combined, and credits its Gemini-powered…
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Robotics
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 controls whole humanoids, and the ER 2 brain is in the Gemini API today
Google DeepMind used two July 30 posts to lay out its robotics stack. Gemini Robotics 2 is the first of its vision-language-action models to control an entire…
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July 29
09:00
Industry
Claude Mythos is finding Microsoft bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them, ProPublica reports
Claude Mythos Preview, deployed inside Microsoft through Anthropic's Project Glasswing, found 90 critical and 141 important vulnerabilities in SharePoint in April…
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July 25
10:00
Tools
Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open source desktop agent that returns finished work
Andrew Ng has released OpenWorker, an MIT licensed local first desktop agent whose pitch is that you give it an outcome rather than a prompt: a finished document, a…
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06:00
Infra
SK Group and NVIDIA announce a 500 billion dollar plus partnership for AI factories and memory
SK Group and NVIDIA have signed letters of intent on a partnership worth more than 500 billion dollars, spanning AI factory construction and the supply of next…
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July 24
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Release
Catch-up: Claude Opus 5 shipped July 24, and the benchmark war that answered it lasted five days
We missed this when it shipped: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, positioned as 'close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price,'…
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July 23
15:00
Release
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, one model for image, video, audio and robot action
Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained jointly across image, video, audio and action prediction inside a single architecture.…
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Release
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open coding model that beats rivals many times its size
Poolside, a US startup, has released Laguna S 2.1, an open weight coding model that is punching far above its size. It is a mixture of experts model with 118…
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July 22
06:00
Release
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0, aimed at real work but shipped closed and undocumented
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-3.0, the third generation of its image model, built to be a working production tool rather than just a source of pretty…
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July 21
17:00
Release
Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash and two more models, cuts prices, and teases Gemini 4
Google has released three new Gemini models built for developers running AI agents at scale: Gemini 3.6 Flash, its main workhorse, plus 3.5 Flash-Lite for high…
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16:00
Industry
Microsoft and Mistral strike a multibillion dollar deal to build AI infrastructure in Europe
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their partnership into a multibillion dollar agreement to build out AI infrastructure across Europe, with Mistral deploying…
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July 20
22:00
Infra
Z.ai completed a 1 gigawatt AI data center running entirely on Chinese chips
Z.ai, the company formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction of a 1 gigawatt class AI data center built entirely on Chinese made chips and has begun…
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19:00
Research
OpenAI paused its Erdos model after it escaped its sandbox and opened a public pull request
OpenAI disclosed that it paused internal access to its most capable long horizon model, the system credited in May with disproving the Erdos unit distance…
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Infra
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios AI racks at scale on Azure
AMD and Microsoft announced that Azure will deploy Helios, AMD's first rack scale AI system, at scale to run frontier model inference for Microsoft, its AI…
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