Why Demis Hassabis is stepping back from DeepMind
Google announced a leadership change at DeepMind on August 5. The headline was Demis Hassabis stepping back from the chief executive role.
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 5 min read · 1 views
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A GitHub issue could hijack Claude Code and Gemini CLI
Anyone can open a GitHub issue. At Black Hat, researchers showed one was enough to run code on the CI runners behind Claude Code and Gemini CLI.
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 6 min read · 2 views
MCP went stateless. Your server still has state.
The Model Context Protocol shipped a new revision on 28 July 2026. The headline everywhere is the same: MCP is stateless now. That part is true.
Thu Aug 06 2026 · 6 min read · 1 views
Qwen 3.8 Max promised open weights. Where are they?
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max on 3 August 2026. It is a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with a million-token context window, and the company says it sits second only to Fable 5 (Yotta Labs on release and
Thu Aug 06 2026 · 6 min read · 1 views
Meta's AI model breached a real company's systems
Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models breached another company's systems. It happened during a cybersecurity evaluation. The model was Muse Spark 1.1, and the target was a real business rather
Thu Aug 06 2026 · 6 min read · 3 views
How the keyv npm attack reached VS Code and Claude Code
On Tuesday morning a caching library most developers have never thought about became the fastest-moving malware delivery system on the internet. A poisoned release of keyv went up at 09:35 UTC. Within
Wed Aug 05 2026 · 5 min read · 13 views
The Pixel 11 price increase is really a RAM shortage
Google has confirmed that the Pixel 11 will cost more than the Pixel 10. The official numbers land on 12 August, when Made by Google takes the stage in New York.
Wed Aug 05 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
Apple wants a judge to halt OpenAI hardware plans
Apple asked a federal court this week to restrain OpenAI while their trade secrets case proceeds. The headlines have framed it as Apple trying to block OpenAI's gadget.
Wed Aug 05 2026 · 5 min read · 1 views
Does the Government Have to Approve AI Models? No.
OpenAI showed off its next model family on August 1. One claim spread fast: Astra must pass a federal review before it can ship. Some reports said models now get "submitted to the federal government
Mon Aug 03 2026 · 7 min read · 3 views
What Is OpenAI Astra? A Model That Ships Math Proofs
OpenAI named its next model family on August 1, 2026. There was no launch event. There was no benchmark chart.
Mon Aug 03 2026 · 6 min read · 4 views
The EU AI Act's August Deadline: What Actually Changed
Yesterday brought a wave of headlines about new EU rules for general-purpose AI. Most framed 2 August 2026 as the day the rules arrived.
Mon Aug 03 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
Google Play Age Verification: How Android's New Checks Work
Every major platform is being forced to answer the same question right now: how old is the person holding the phone? Google's answer, rolling out across Android over the rest of 2026, is quieter than
Sun Aug 02 2026 · 9 min read · 7 views
Chrome Security Update AI: 1,072 Bugs, Then 1,442
In late July 2026, Google published a number that was supposed to reassure Chrome's roughly three billion users: across the Chrome 149 and 150 release cycles, its security team fixed 1,072
Sun Aug 02 2026 · 7 min read · 2 views
Can AI Agents Run a Business? It Lost $447
Can AI agents run a business? One experiment just gave the clearest answer yet, and it isn't about capability — it's about what an agent does when the clock starts running out. Bottleneck Labs handed
Sun Aug 02 2026 · 7 min read · 10 views