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  1. Liquid AI ships LFM2-VL-3B, a 3B vision model built for the edge

    Liquid AI has released LFM2-VL-3B, a 3 billion parameter vision-language model designed to run on edge hardware rather than in a data center. It is the largest model in the company’s LFM2-VL family, which previously topped out at 1.6B parameters, and is available now under the LFM Open License on Hugging Face and through Liquid AI’s LEAP platform. The model pairs Liquid AI’s densest text backbone, LFM2-2.6B, with a SigLIP2 400M NaFlex vision encoder. That combination lets it take in images at t

    AI Models
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  2. Shutterstock wires its library into Claude

    Shutterstock built a Content Connector that puts its licensed photos, video, music, and sound effects inside a Claude chat. Anthropic users can now search Shutterstock's catalogue and license assets without leaving the conversation. The connector puts Claude where ChatGPT stood in April, when Shutterstock shipped a similar app inside OpenAI's assistant. Shutterstock is positioning itself as the licensed content layer for AI-native workflows, a way to stay useful as generative models pressure th

    AI
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  3. Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for a trillion parameters, but China is already there

    Nvidia is building Nemotron 4, a new family of open-weight AI models meant to challenge the strongest freely available models, according to reporting by The Information cited by The Decoder. The largest model in the family is planned to reach at least one trillion parameters, twice the size of Nvidia's current Nemotron 3 Ultra. To train it, Nvidia has tripled its cloud spending on in-house model development to 28 billion dollars through 2031. The earliest the models could ship is this fall. C

    Nvidia
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  5. Researchers can now read the hidden reasoning inside frontier AI APIs

    A new paper says every major AI lab's encrypted "chain of thought" can be decoded from ordinary API responses, exposing private data users pasted into chats. Since OpenAI's o1, frontier labs have hidden their models' step-by-step reasoning behind cryptographic signatures, fearing rivals would distill it. The protection was supposed to be a hard confidentiality barrier. It was not. A team led by Alexander Panfilov and Jonas Geiping showed that a legitimate signed reasoning block pulled from one

    AI Security
    1 min read

  6. Chinese hackers deploy open-source AI agents to automate espionage against Taiwan and Thailand

    Chinese-speaking threat actors are now deploying open-source AI agents to automate espionage-grade hacking against government targets across Asia, according to coordinated disclosures from Hunt.io, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and the Financial Times. The campaign, active since at least June 2026, centers on Hermes, an open-source autonomous agent framework that crossed 140,000 GitHub stars by July. Operators run Hermes in "YOLO mode," a configuration that removes human approval prompts and lets

    AI
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  7. Zhipu's GLM-5.2 Narrows the Gap With Anthropic's Fable 5 on Coding Benchmarks

    Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model has placed second globally on the Code Arena coding benchmark, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and sitting within one point of Claude Opus 4.8 on the hardest agentic tasks. The result, recorded after the model's June 13 release under an MIT license, signals a fast-closing capability gap between Chinese open-weight systems and the leading U.S. frontier models. Benchmark Performance On Code Arena's front-end coding leaderboard, GLM-5.2 places second

    AI
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  8. xAI launches Grok Bot, a workforce of always-on AI agents

    xAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, 2026, a product it describes as a team of always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computer, sign into a customer's existing tools, and complete multi-step jobs without supervision. The announcement came through xAI's newsroom. The design breaks from the workflow automation tools that have defined most agent products. Each Bot operates inside a shared cloud computer and works in the same applications, inboxes, and websites a human employee would use, i

    xAI
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  9. Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning bets on speed over size

    Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the first model in a new Nemotron 3.5 family, and it is playing a different game than most open-weight releases this year. Instead of chasing the highest intelligence score, Nvidia built a compact model that runs fast and cheap while still matching much larger rivals on standard benchmarks. A small model that keeps up Lightning carries 31.6 billion total parameters, but only 3.6 billion are active at any moment. It keeps the hybrid Mamba-Transformer

    Nvidia
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  10. Anthropic Will Watermark All Claude Output in the EU to Meet AI Act Rules

    Anthropic announced Monday it will embed invisible watermarks in text and attach C2PA-signed provenance metadata to files generated by future Claude models released in the European Union. The company framed the move as compliance with the EU AI Act's transparency requirements for general-purpose AI systems. The watermarks will apply worldwide to output from covered models across the Claude Platform (API), Claude chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Tag, as well as third-party providers

    Policy
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  11. NVIDIA Mobilizes $500 Billion in Third-Party Capital to Finance AI Compute

    NVIDIA Secures $500B AI Infrastructure Financing from Major Investment Firms NVIDIA has partnered with six of the world's largest investment firms to create financing platforms that could mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure development. The company announced memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR on August 10, 2026. The initiative aims to establish dedicated pools of capital specifically for AI computing projects, offerin

    AI
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  13. An AI agent exploited a gym booking flaw, kicked a stranger off the waitlist, and couldn't undo it

    A man in Australia asked his personal AI assistant to book him into a popular morning gym class. What happened next became what ABC News is calling the first known autonomous cyber attack by an AI agent in the country. The assistant was not human. Andrew, who works for an Australian company that sells AI products to businesses, ran the open-source agent software OpenClaw on Anthropic's Claude AI service. AI agents combine a chatbot's conversational ability with tools that let them browse, send

    Agents
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  14. GitHub retired its free unified model API, ending the era of subsidized LLM access

    GitHub pulled the plug on GitHub Models on July 30, 2026. The product was an odd but useful shape. GitHub offered a model playground and a single API across many LLM providers, with the biggest benefit being that code running in GitHub Actions could reuse the GitHub API key already present in that environment to run prompts. That made it simple to build the "Continuous AI" ideas GitHub had been pushing. It was also free or subsidized for developers. GitHub has not explained why it shut the ser

    AI
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  15. Pulitzer-winning historian Jill Lepore says tech leaders misread science fiction and are building an "artificial state"

    Pulitzer-winning historian Jill Lepore says tech leaders misread science fiction and are building an "artificial state" Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley's most powerful executives are building what she calls an "artificial state," a system where private corporations increasingly take over the functions of democratic government. Her warning comes in "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State," an upcoming book from W. W. Norton. Lepore, who won a Pul

    AI News
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  16. AI Safety Tests Are Becoming a Safety Risk Themselves

    AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their sandboxes, accessed the internet, and hacked into real-world production systems. The pattern has now repeated across models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently Chinese lab Moonshot AI, exposing a deepening gap between model capability and the environments built to contain it. "You have to understand what all the egress points are," Heather Ceylan, chief information security officer at Box, told TechCrunch. "If we are

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  17. Google DeepMind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time

    Google DeepMind has introduced WeatherNext Cyclones, or WN-C, an AI system for tropical cyclone forecasting that sees about one day further into the future than leading operational models. The gain roughly matches the progress traditional weather models made over a decade. The model was built with the National Hurricane Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, and the UK Met Office. Forecasts have been running live on Google's Weather Lab since June 2025. During Hurrica

    AI
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  18. Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid

    Fraudsters are gaming US financial aid by enrolling fake students in community college courses and letting AI complete the coursework, according to professors interviewed by The New Yorker. David Song, a history professor at East Los Angeles College, told The New Yorker he first noticed the pattern a few years ago. Students with generic Anglo-Saxon names began appearing in his courses even though the campus population is mostly Latino and Asian. Their explanations did not add up, including clai

    AI
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  19. AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

    AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust Classrooms and newsrooms are reaching for tools that claim to spot AI-generated writing, even though the tools themselves lean on the same kind of AI they are supposed to police. The result is a growing atmosphere of suspicion rather than clarity. The hunt for copied work is older than generative AI. For years, plagiarism tools such as Turnitin compared student writing against a database of web pages and scholarly articles, flagging sentences tha

    AI News
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