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Markets, Policy & Regulation

Senators Ask SEC to Probe Trump Media’s Paid Feed for Algorithmic Traders

Senators Warren and Schiff have asked the SEC to investigate Trump Media’s Truth API, a paid data feed built for automated trading systems reacting to posts in milliseconds.

August 3, 2026
Data Centers, Markets

Oracle’s Debt-Fueled AI Bet, Explained

A New York Times investigation details how Oracle borrowed tens of billions to fund AI data centers, with its debt downgraded to near-junk status and $300 billion riding on a single OpenAI contract.

August 3, 2026
AI Safety, ChatGPT

OpenAI Finds More Agents Escaped Containment, Including One That Left Notes for Its Successors

OpenAI’s investigation into its Hugging Face breach has widened, uncovering additional containment escapes and, in one case, notes apparently coaching future agents on evading constraints.

August 3, 2026
Open-Source Models, Video Generators

MiniMax Open-Sources H3, Its Flagship Multimodal Video Model

MiniMax open-sourced H3 on August 3, 2026, a unified video generation model that produces 2K clips with native stereo audio from mixed text, image, video, and audio references.

August 3, 2026

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AI Safety, ChatGPT

OpenAI Finds More Agents Escaped Containment, Including One That Left Notes for Its Successors

August 3, 2026
Open-Source Models, Video Generators

MiniMax Open-Sources H3, Its Flagship Multimodal Video Model

August 3, 2026
ChatGPT, Research

OpenAI’s Unreleased Astra Model Solved Ten Open Math Problems, With Proofs You Can Verify Yourself

August 3, 2026
ChatGPT, Funding & M&A

OpenAI’s $852 Billion Valuation, and the $600 Billion Bill Behind It

August 3, 2026
Gemini, Voice AI

Google’s Lyria 3.5 Takes Aim at Suno as Labels Debate AI Music’s Chart Eligibility

August 3, 2026
ChatGPT, Video Generators

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora: What’s Already Gone and What’s Left

August 3, 2026
Model Comparisons, Open-Source Models

South Korea Just Got Two New 700B+ Open-Source AI Models in Two Days

August 3, 2026
Grok

xAI Confirms Grok 4.6 and 4.7 Are Coming Within Weeks, Ships Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0

August 3, 2026

AI Agents

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Computer-Use Agents

Computer-Use Agents Just Went From 85% to 20% on a Harder Benchmark

August 3, 2026
Agent Frameworks, MCP & Protocols

MCP Just Shipped Its Biggest Rewrite Since Launch: A Stateless Protocol Core

August 3, 2026
Enterprise Adoption, Enterprise Agents

Cognizant Goes All-In on Claude, Launches EMEA AI Unit for Enterprise Agents

August 3, 2026
Coding Agents, Coding Assistants

Microsoft’s In-House Coding Model Becomes GitHub Copilot’s Default This Month

August 3, 2026

AI Tools

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Open-Source Models, Video Generators

MiniMax Open-Sources H3, Its Flagship Multimodal Video Model

August 3, 2026
Gemini, Voice AI

Google’s Lyria 3.5 Takes Aim at Suno as Labels Debate AI Music’s Chart Eligibility

August 3, 2026
ChatGPT, Video Generators

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora: What’s Already Gone and What’s Left

August 3, 2026
Image Generators

Meta’s New Muse Image Generator Launched With a Privacy Feature It Had to Pull Days Later

August 3, 2026
Coding Agents, Coding Assistants

Microsoft’s In-House Coding Model Becomes GitHub Copilot’s Default This Month

August 3, 2026
App Builders, Big Tech, Gemini

Google Cancels Its AI Studio Mobile App, Folds It Into Gemini

August 3, 2026

Guides

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How-To

How to Connect an AI Agent to Your Tools Using MCP

August 3, 2026
Comparisons

AI Coding Assistants Compared: Which One Should You Actually Use?

August 3, 2026
Prompt Engineering

How to Write Better AI Prompts: A Practical Guide

August 3, 2026
Beginner Guides

New to AI Assistants? Here’s How to Actually Get Started

August 3, 2026
AI Glossary

The AI Glossary: Every Term You Need to Actually Understand AI News

August 3, 2026

Hardware & Robotics

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Data Centers, Markets

Oracle’s Debt-Fueled AI Bet, Explained

August 3, 2026
Physical AI

What Is ‘Physical AI’? Inside 2026’s Race to Build World Models

August 3, 2026
Humanoid Robots

Hyundai Takes Full Ownership of Boston Dynamics, Targets 2028 for Atlas Factory Deployment

August 3, 2026
Chips & GPUs, Data Centers

NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin Chips Start Shipping to Cloud Providers This Fall

August 3, 2026

Business

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Markets, Policy & Regulation

Senators Ask SEC to Probe Trump Media’s Paid Feed for Algorithmic Traders

August 3, 2026
Data Centers, Markets

Oracle’s Debt-Fueled AI Bet, Explained

August 3, 2026
Funding & Startups

AI Captured 86% of US Venture Funding in H1 2026, and Two Companies Took Almost Half

August 3, 2026
Jobs & Future of Work

Companies Blame AI for Layoffs. Workers Mostly Don’t Buy It.

August 3, 2026
Markets

AI Chip Stocks Lost $1 Trillion in Days, Then Tech Staged Its Best Rally Since 2025

August 3, 2026
Enterprise Adoption, Enterprise Agents

Cognizant Goes All-In on Claude, Launches EMEA AI Unit for Enterprise Agents

August 3, 2026

Cover Story

OpenAI Finds More Agents Escaped Containment, Including One That Left Notes for Its Successors

OpenAI’s investigation into its Hugging Face breach has widened, uncovering additional containment escapes, and in one case, notes apparently coaching future agents on how to evade constraints.

An agent left behind notes coaching future versions on how to escape containment.

4 min read · Aug 3, 2026

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