2026
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Sourcegraph's Amp Adds Global Plugins and Skills for AI Agents
Sourcegraph has updated its AI coding agent Amp: plugins and skills now live in the cloud, work across all projects and can be shared with a team without manual…
KIST's Neuromorphic AI Trains Six Times Faster Than Google's Method, With No Extra Hardware
Korean researchers developed A²SG, a method for training spiking neural networks that needs six times less compute than Google's leading approach.
Superintelligence as a Dragon: Where Zuckerberg Gets Powerful AI Wrong
Platformer's Casey Newton picks apart Zuckerberg's superintelligence manifesto: spreading AI widely doesn't solve the core problem of controlling systems we don't…
DeepMind's WeatherNext Predicts Hurricanes Earlier Than Existing Forecast Models
ChatGPT Becomes Congress's Top AI Tool, According to Spending Data
Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Went Online on Its Own to Cheat on a Test
Model ML and GPT-5.6 Sol: From Financial Analysis to Finished Excel and PowerPoint Files
GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 Agents Created Fake Accounts and Attacked Real Users
The UK's AI Security Institute documented unauthorized attacks by GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 agents on real people and organizations, including the creation of fake…
MacPaw and Liquid AI to Bring Local AI Inference to Setapp Developers
MacPaw is building a local version of its Eney AI assistant on Liquid AI models, giving Setapp developers on-device AI with no cloud and no token fees.
Corma Raises $60M From Sequoia: GPT and Claude Win 88% of Attack Simulations Against Defenders
OpenAI Sends Texas Governor a Letter on Responsible AI Infrastructure
Hark unveils browser agent for web tasks, claims it is faster and cheaper than rivals
OpenAI Hosts Its First Luxury Influencer Trip — and Audiences Respond With a Boycott
GPT-5.6-Cyber: OpenAI Releases a Cybersecurity Model Through Daybreak Red
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity version of GPT-5.6 available to authorized teams through Daybreak Red for vulnerability research and defense…
Google Reshuffles DeepMind Leadership: Demis Hassabis Becomes Alphabet's Chief Scientist
On August 6, 2026, Sundar Pichai announced changes at Google DeepMind: Hassabis moves to chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, while Kavukcuoglu becomes SVP of…
Jeff Dean and Google Executives Found Discovery Loop, an AI Discovery Startup
Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean and a team of senior Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup hunting for AI breakthroughs in drug…
Mistral Is on the Rise: Big Tech's Turmoil Opens the Door for Open AI Models
IBM: 92% of Companies Hit by AI Incidents Lacked Basic Access Controls
The AI Talent War: Tech Giants Are Recruiting PhD Students Two Years Before They Graduate
US Commerce Department Awards GlobalFoundries $300 Million for AI Infrastructure Photonics
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, the Most Powerful Language Model in the Qwen Series
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, the Qwen flagship it bills as the most powerful model in the lineup, amid a fierce race among Chinese tech companies for AI…
EU AI Act Takes Full Effect: Fines of Up to €35 Million for High-Risk AI Systems
The EU AI Act took full effect on 2 August 2026: companies using AI in healthcare, banking and hiring must now comply or face fines of up to €35 million.
Researchers Build a Real-Time Deepfake Detection System for Video Conferencing
EU AI Act: AI Transparency Rules Take Effect — and What Remains Unresolved
Google proposes FARO for frontier AI, but protection against everyday risks is in question
Northeastern University builds agentic AI that programs without a developer
SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview: SenseTime Open-Sources a Multimodal AI With Native Image Generation
SenseTime has released SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, a lightweight preview of its NEO-Unify multimodal model that natively combines image understanding and…
Yellow.ai Goes Public to Buy the Call Centers It Wants AI to Replace
Instead of selling software to operators, Yellow.ai plans to buy the call centers themselves. It is merging with SPAC Bluerock Acquisition and eyeing BPO M&A.
Nvidia's Real Moat Isn't Its Chips — It's CUDA, and AI Agents Have Started Rewriting It
For 20 years, CUDA mattered more than any Nvidia GPU. Now AI coding agents are lowering the barrier to switching platforms — and for the first time threaten the…
Startup June Emerges From Stealth With $20M: Marc Benioff Bets on Simpler AI Deployment
Majestic Labs unveils Prometheus server to replace a rack of Nvidia GPUs
Apple ML Research Studies Alignment in Multimodal LLMs and Their Tendency to Hallucinate
