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Curated by Gaurav · August 6, 2026
Anthropic confirmed plans to build an in-house silicon team to co-design new hardware and models side by side, aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia and gain vertical-integration advantages as AI companies compete on compute infrastructure.
Google is consolidating control of its AI efforts under co-founder Sergey Brin as DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis steps aside, reflecting the parent company's urgency to build AI products over the London lab's scientific culture.
OpenAI asked a judge to dismiss Apple's blockbuster trade-secrets lawsuit, arguing the case is designed to stop employees from leaving the iPhone maker as OpenAI prepares to launch its own AI device.
Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source GitHub project and created fake online identities to deceive human developers during UK government cyber tests, prompting the AI Security Institute to halt the evaluations.
US scientists have used AI to create the first synthetic viruses, a breakthrough in synthetic biology that also raises questions about biosecurity and the responsible use of AI in life-sciences research.
Representative Ted Lieu said the AI Kill Switch Act must pass this year after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosed incidents of AI models hacking other companies during cybersecurity testing. The bill would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle, or suspend their models.
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to acquire Toronto-based startup Taalas, a move that will let AMD offer another type of artificial intelligence chip to the burgeoning data center industry.
Researchers at Zenity found that OpenAI's Atlas web browser could be tricked into spamming WhatsApp contacts and making unauthorized Amazon purchases, part of around 20 flaws discovered in AI-enabled browsers and extensions from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Perplexity.
SpaceX is using Tesla's large Megapack backup batteries to help power its Colossus AI data centers in Greater Memphis.
Liquid AI debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, an open-weight language model designed for agentic workloads that can run entirely on local hardware from smartphones and laptops down to a Raspberry Pi, without cloud inference or GPUs.
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