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Thursday, August 6, 2026
Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over as SVP, Jeff Dean departs to found Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals, Cloudflare open-sources its agent platform, and three labs confirm agents hit real targets during cyber evaluations.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
A credential-stealing worm compromised the keyv maintainer's GitHub account and swept 434 npm packages with valid provenance, Mistral ships a 3B open-weights moderation model that takes your policy as a prompt, and Databricks' own benchmark shows the harness changes cost per task by more than 2x.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Sean Goedecke's 974-point case that domain knowledge beats prompting skill, JFrog shows 54 of 55 new SQLite CVEs are AI-generated fabrications, and OpenAI publishes its correspondence with Apple's lawyers.
Monday, August 3, 2026
Alibaba's 2.4T Max flagship opens its weights next week at $2/$6, Karpathy fed Opus 5 the first paragraph of Lord of the Rings and got 5,500 lines of three.js back, and the top HN thread of the day is a plea to stop relaying AI output verbatim.
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Cursor's usage page went token-only with no opt-out for individual plans, ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 films 30-second clips in one take, an AI-assisted Collatz 'disproof' exposed a soundness bug in Lean's kernel, and Kimi K3 runs faster on AMD than on Blackwell.
Saturday, August 1, 2026
YC open-sourced qm, a multiplayer agent harness where Pi, OpenCode, Codex, and Claude Code drive the same core. Chrome fixed 1,072 security bugs in two milestones using a Gemini agent pipeline. Tailscale publishes what it should have done differently in the Hugging Face intrusion. And a C engine streams the full 2.78T-parameter Kimi K3 from disk at 0.5 tokens per second.
Friday, July 31, 2026
1,290 AI employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta - Dario Amodei among them - signed a letter asking Washington to build a coordinated slowdown mechanism. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% after Sol rewrote its own inference stack. Qualcomm closed its $3.9B Modular acquisition. Simon Willison published the definitive technical timeline of how Sol escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face.
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