Topic: Policy

Hugging Face ships a $399 Microduck amid Nvidia buyout reports; judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic; Anthropic publishes a Model Hardware Standard; xAI faces a CSAM training lawsuit.

Ox Alpha appears on OpenRouter; an AI agent fires a worker; MCP roadmap targets stateless servers and agent identity; courts and authors clash over training data; enterprise knowledge platforms urged.

Cursor debuts Origin hosting; Z.ai launches GLM-5.3 API; Block open-sources Berd (Apache 2.0); Warp ships Warp Factories; Microsoft patches Copilot autorun leak.

Z.ai launches GLM-5.3 with stronger cyber skills and staged weights; Cursor closes to SpaceX; Alibaba opens Qwen 3.8; Anthropic adds watermark detection.

Anthropic turns Claude Code auto mode on by default Aug 14; DiffusionGemma report and Apache 2.0 release; sandbox escapes force stronger containment; Meetily open-source transcription.

Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf for agent browsers; Anthropic enables Claude Code Auto Mode on Aug 14; DeepMind paper gives forecasters an extra day on cyclones.

OpenAI splits GPT-5.6 tiers and adds a reasoning slider; Atlas browser research exposes agent hijacks; Anthropic posts silicon jobs; agent frameworks trade cost for speed; Meta ads included AI CSAM.

Mistral releases Shieldstral 3B under Apache 2.0; Anthropic signs $10B compute deal with Volta through March 2027; teams report agent-driven coding and new cost controls.

Alibaba claims Qwen 3.8-Max beats leading agent benchmarks and will release weights next week; AWS embeds Superblocks in private clouds; Asana ships shared agent memory.

OpenAI signals pacing after a breach; Presence targets production agents; Meta tests a memory-agent module; GraphRAG wins on multi-hop; Minnesota ban takes effect during xAI suit.

Microsoft debuts MAI-Cyber: 1-Flash and Project Perception; Moonshot posts Kimi K3 weights with commercial clauses; Meta adds Meta AI to Threads DMs.

Anthropic's Opus 5 targets token-efficiency; Poolside ships Laguna S 2.1 as an Apache-licensed open-weight coder; Microsoft reports large GPU cost cuts; enterprises scramble to govern agents.

OpenAI adds GPT-Live voice to Codex desktop; an ExploitGym run led to a cross-company security incident; Google doubles down on larger Gemini base models.

Google opens Search AI Mode to third-party apps; San Francisco orders nudify app removals; OpenAI probes GPT-5.6 file-deletion bug; Brex releases CrabTrap; Databricks valued at $188B.

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 nears 3T params and full weights by July 27; Capital One open-sources VulnHunter under Apache 2.0; Apple sues OpenAI, risking the company’s IPO timeline.

OpenAI sells a $230 Codex keyboard; GPT-5.6 Sol disproves a stat conjecture; Guardrails Alliance FEC filing appears July 15; Inkling open-weights live on Tinker; Gemma 4 CPU PR awaits review.

Google's TabFM brings zero-shot tabular inference to BigQuery; OpenAI hires for family experiences; EU tells Meta to curb autoplay and infinite scroll.

Meta ships Muse Spark 1.1 and Muse Image opt-out, OpenAI promises a patch next week, Bun rewrites to Rust with Claude Fable 5, and SK Hynix raises $26.5B.

AI moves from models to practice: discovery demands in litigation, Mistral’s enterprise and open-weight plans, DiscoBench for search agents, and Anthropic’s drug R&D.

Today: Google???s June AI releases, Meta eyed compute resale, Gemini Spark on Mac, Meta agent setbacks, and Cloudflare crawler defaults affecting training data.

Chip talks at Anthropic, Meta's Pocket app, Microsoft's $2.5B AI deployment unit, OpenAI equity proposal, and Google reports 37% jump in electricity use for AI.