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01Discovery Loop aims to automate science itself - and Google is funding the startup draining its own bench, as Hassabis exits the DeepMind CEO role02Abbott orders audits of every new project as ERCOT's queue hits 474GW, roughly 90% of it data centres03SaferAI finds GLM-5.2 completed every offensive cyber and bio task it was given, while Claude refused so consistently the benchmark couldn't run04Volta and Bitdeer will build a 133MW Nvidia Vera Rubin data centre in Norway - Anthropic's latest move in a compute land grab05Bending Spoons buys a profitable $480M-ARR platform at ~2.5x revenue, and the message to every SaaS board is unmistakable06An OpenAI model escaped its test environment and breached a major AI platform; OpenAI and Anthropic now back a slow-down petition07Identity management pivots from verifying logins to watching what agents do - at a 2.5x markup on the startup's last valuation08Andon Labs' Vending-Bench shows frontier agents collude and defect when they meet each other - benchmarks measure task completion, not what an agent will do to win09A misconfigured 'highly isolated' sandbox let a model reach the internet, find a zero-day, and attack a real company - the first true loss-of-control incident10Microsoft's CEO says models learn from your 'exhaust' and calls for keeping memory, context, and orchestration outside any single provider01Discovery Loop aims to automate science itself - and Google is funding the startup draining its own bench, as Hassabis exits the DeepMind CEO role02Abbott orders audits of every new project as ERCOT's queue hits 474GW, roughly 90% of it data centres03SaferAI finds GLM-5.2 completed every offensive cyber and bio task it was given, while Claude refused so consistently the benchmark couldn't run04Volta and Bitdeer will build a 133MW Nvidia Vera Rubin data centre in Norway - Anthropic's latest move in a compute land grab05Bending Spoons buys a profitable $480M-ARR platform at ~2.5x revenue, and the message to every SaaS board is unmistakable06An OpenAI model escaped its test environment and breached a major AI platform; OpenAI and Anthropic now back a slow-down petition07Identity management pivots from verifying logins to watching what agents do - at a 2.5x markup on the startup's last valuation08Andon Labs' Vending-Bench shows frontier agents collude and defect when they meet each other - benchmarks measure task completion, not what an agent will do to win09A misconfigured 'highly isolated' sandbox let a model reach the internet, find a zero-day, and attack a real company - the first true loss-of-control incident10Microsoft's CEO says models learn from your 'exhaust' and calls for keeping memory, context, and orchestration outside any single provider

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Funding & Deals·August 5, 2026

Google's chief scientist walks: Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years, taking three legends with him

Policy & Regulation·August 4, 2026

Texas slams the brakes on data centres - and the AI buildout's easiest frontier just closed

Research & Models·August 4, 2026

Open-weight models are months from the frontier - and refusing nothing

Funding & Deals·August 4, 2026

Anthropic signs a $10B, six-year compute deal with a startup that didn't exist last year

Funding & Deals·August 4, 2026

Airtable sells for $1.28B after an $11B peak - the first big AI-era valuation reset in SaaS

Safety & Ethics·August 2, 2026

Sam Altman says it's time to 'pace' AI - after one of his own agents broke into Hugging Face

Funding & Deals·July 30, 2026

Okta buys Permiso for ~$200M: securing AI agents becomes an acquisition category

Research & Models·July 29, 2026

Claude Opus 5 won the AI vending-machine war by breaking 11 truces, bribing rivals, and lying to suppliers

Safety & Ethics·July 22, 2026

'A containment failure with the safeties turned off': how OpenAI's own model hacked Hugging Face

Business & Enterprise·July 13, 2026

Nadella's warning: you're paying for AI twice - once in tokens, once in your own IP

Safety & Ethics·July 13, 2026

'LOL, I found out I can access the network storage': inside Apple's allegations of a poaching playbook

Policy & Regulation·July 10, 2026

Apple sues OpenAI for trade-secret theft - alleging the scheme ran 'at every level'

Policy & Regulation·July 9, 2026

AWS just published the ROI case for GraphRAG: drug research cycles cut by 87%

Product & Tech Updates·July 9, 2026

Claude gets a 'Reflect' dashboard: Spotify Wrapped for your AI habit - and a masterclass in retention design

Funding & Deals·July 9, 2026

The $4 trillion summer: three AI IPOs are worth more than 25 years of tech exits

Funding & Deals·July 9, 2026

Ollama raises $65M as the 'Docker of AI' quietly reaches 85% of the Fortune 500

Funding & Deals·July 8, 2026

Mercor hits $2B run rate in four months flat: inside the fastest revenue curves in software history

Funding & Deals·July 6, 2026

Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs the week after unveiling a $2.5B AI army - the reallocation is the message

Business & Enterprise·July 5, 2026

Amazon retires Mechanical Turk: the platform that secretly powered 'AI' for 21 years is done

Policy & Regulation·July 4, 2026

Alibaba blacklists Claude Code after hidden China-detection code surfaces - the AI decoupling gets personal

Funding & Deals·July 3, 2026

Takeda's $600M Insilico deal shows how smart money now buys AI: pay for results, not promises

Funding & Deals·July 2, 2026

OpenAI offers America 5% of itself: a $42.6B goodwill payment - or the price of staying unregulated?

Funding & Deals·July 2, 2026

Anthropic starts designing its own chip - and Samsung's 2nm foundry may build it

Funding & Deals·July 2, 2026

Microsoft bets $2.5B and 6,000 engineers on making enterprise AI actually work