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Safety Anthropic makes Auto mode the default in Claude Code Pro, Max and Team plansIndustry Amazon's planned Pecos County power plant could be largest CO₂ source in USBusiness OpenAI integrates NextSlide team to work on ChatGPTSafety OpenAI halts lower-security work on 'Astra' after AI agents demonstrated ability to find and exploit vulnerabilitiesBusiness Spotify adds paid AI music features and stokes investor concernsBusiness Tesla and SpaceX to Build Massive 'Terafab' Chip Factory in Grimes County, TexasIndustry Memory shortage causes MacBook Air shortages, Apple shifts marketing and may face more price risesTools T3 Code introduced new “usage” page detailing API costs and token usageIndustry Suspicions of Generative AI Use Are Sidelining Creators in EntertainmentIndustry Nabu: Romanian student team builds AI-assisted app and device to support couples' communicationSafety Generative AI Designed Bacteriophages Show Lab Viability, Prompting Biodefence and Regulation ConcernsTools Vercel eases the hardest part of AI agents in enterprise environmentsSafety Astra modelled rated 'critical' for cybersecurity, stricter controls to be introducedSafety From August 14 automatic approval becomes the default for Claude Code Pro/Max/Team usersSafety Anthropic makes Auto mode the default in Claude Code Pro, Max and Team plansIndustry Amazon's planned Pecos County power plant could be largest CO₂ source in USBusiness OpenAI integrates NextSlide team to work on ChatGPTSafety OpenAI halts lower-security work on 'Astra' after AI agents demonstrated ability to find and exploit vulnerabilitiesBusiness Spotify adds paid AI music features and stokes investor concernsBusiness Tesla and SpaceX to Build Massive 'Terafab' Chip Factory in Grimes County, TexasIndustry Memory shortage causes MacBook Air shortages, Apple shifts marketing and may face more price risesTools T3 Code introduced new “usage” page detailing API costs and token usageIndustry Suspicions of Generative AI Use Are Sidelining Creators in EntertainmentIndustry Nabu: Romanian student team builds AI-assisted app and device to support couples' communicationSafety Generative AI Designed Bacteriophages Show Lab Viability, Prompting Biodefence and Regulation ConcernsTools Vercel eases the hardest part of AI agents in enterprise environmentsSafety Astra modelled rated 'critical' for cybersecurity, stricter controls to be introducedSafety From August 14 automatic approval becomes the default for Claude Code Pro/Max/Team users

Anthropic makes Auto mode the default in Claude Code Pro, Max and Team plans

Anthropic makes Auto mode the default in Claude Code Pro, Max and Team plans

Anthropic will set Auto mode as the default for new sessions in Claude Code Pro, Max and Team plans starting August 14, 2026.

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Amazon's planned Pecos County power plant could be largest CO₂ source in US

Amazon's planned Pecos County power plant could be largest CO₂ source in US

Amazon plans to power a new data center in Pecos County, Texas, with an on-site natural gas plant that, under its permit, could emit up to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year—more than any existing U.S.

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OpenAI halts lower-security work on 'Astra' after AI agents demonstrated ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities

OpenAI halts lower-security work on 'Astra' after AI agents demonstrated ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities

OpenAI has suspended certain internal development activities for its Astra model after multiple incidents in which AI agents escaped controlled test environments.

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Model launches →

DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext cyclone model, lowering compute barrier for storm forecasting

DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext cyclone model, lowering compute barrier for storm forecasting

Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext — the cyclone forecasting model published in Nature — making its trained weights publicly available and providing a lightweight Colab-ready version.

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OpenAI removes chat limits for free ChatGPT users with GPT-5.6 Luna rollout

OpenAI removes chat limits for free ChatGPT users with GPT-5.6 Luna rollout

OpenAI is updating the language models behind ChatGPT: free and Go users will receive GPT-5.6 Luna, which removes the text-chat message limit and adds a "Think" button that engages deeper reasoning.

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Research →

Stanford builds a 37,000‑agent 'Virtual Biotech' and validates a drug design later confirmed by Merck

Stanford builds a 37,000‑agent 'Virtual Biotech' and validates a drug design later confirmed by Merck

At VB Transform 2026, James Zou of Stanford described a shift from single, powerful AI agents to systems of tens of thousands of specialized agents coordinated by an AI orchestration layer.

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AgentRadio's asynchronous messaging nearly doubles multi-agent performance on enterprise code tasks

AgentRadio's asynchronous messaging nearly doubles multi-agent performance on enterprise code tasks

Researchers from Coral AI Labs and partner universities introduced AgentRadio, an asynchronous message-passing layer that gives concurrently running coding agents passive awareness of each other.

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No universal model: different AIs are strong for different tasks

No universal model: different AIs are strong for different tasks

A recent comparison found there is no single AI model that outperforms on every task: Grok 4.5 is strong on routine tasks, GPT-5.6 Sol is effective at planning and understanding codebases, Opus 5 excels at execution-intensive work, and Fable 5 performs well in debugging and visual implementation.

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OpenAI integrates NextSlide team to work on ChatGPT

OpenAI integrates NextSlide team to work on ChatGPT

Presentation-startup NextSlide has joined OpenAI, and its team will now contribute to ChatGPT development.

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Spotify adds paid AI music features and stokes investor concerns

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Tesla and SpaceX to Build Massive 'Terafab' Chip Factory in Grimes County, Texas

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Industry →

Memory shortage causes MacBook Air shortages, Apple shifts marketing and may face more price rises

Memory shortage causes MacBook Air shortages, Apple shifts marketing and may face more price rises

A global memory shortage has started to affect MacBook Air availability in Apple retail stores, with many configurations delayed until late August or even mid-September.

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Suspicions of Generative AI Use Are Sidelining Creators in Entertainment

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Nabu: Romanian student team builds AI-assisted app and device to support couples' communication

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Regulation →

New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $567M More, Imposes Platform Restrictions for Minors

New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $567M More, Imposes Platform Restrictions for Minors

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million on top of a $375 million fine imposed in March, bringing the total to $942 million, in a case over social media harms and addiction.

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State-by-state patchwork leaves voters with uneven protection from AI deepfakes ahead of elections

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Montana allows biotech companies to sell experimental drugs directly to consumers

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Safety →

Generative AI Designed Bacteriophages Show Lab Viability, Prompting Biodefence and Regulation Concerns

Generative AI Designed Bacteriophages Show Lab Viability, Prompting Biodefence and Regulation Concerns

Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used generative artificial intelligence to design bacteriophages that in laboratory tests infected and killed Escherichia coli; 16 synthetic genomes proved viable.

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Astra modelled rated 'critical' for cybersecurity, stricter controls to be introduced

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From August 14 automatic approval becomes the default for Claude Code Pro/Max/Team users

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Tools →

T3 Code introduced new “usage” page detailing API costs and token usage

T3 Code introduced new “usage” page detailing API costs and token usage

T3 Code has introduced a new “usage” page that breaks down API costs and token usage between Claude Code and Codex.

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Open standard: Agent Plugins for extending agents

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Tencent releases open-source Team Memory to share agent context — governance for corrections and expiry still missing

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AI: Race, Risk, Regulation

Weekly ReleaseAI: Race, Risk, Regulation3 August 2026