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  1. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

    Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, has released GLM-5.3, an update the company says keeps the same 700-billion-parameter base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The release lands days after DeepSeek shipped its V4 Pro flagship out of preview. Stronger coding through environment scaling GLM-5.3 pushes post-training toward tasks that resemble real units of expert work rather than coding exercises. The company built pipelines that synthesize environments end

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  2. Okta's MCP Tool Scoping Cuts AI Agent Token Costs by 90%

    Okta's MCP Tool Scoping Cuts AI Agent Token Costs by 90% Okta has introduced a new approach to reduce the token costs associated with AI agents by implementing identity-based permissions for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists. The company claims this method can cut the "tool tax" - tokens consumed when a model processes every available tool's schema, name, description, and parameters before making a tool call - by more than 90%. According to Okta, this tool overhead occurs prior to any to

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  3. DeepSeek launches Harness, an open agent framework, and raises V4-Pro API prices

    DeepSeek launches Harness, an open agent framework, and raises V4-Pro API prices DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1, an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness that gives developers a modular alternative to vertically integrated coding agents like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. At the same time, the company moved DeepSeek-V4-Pro to general availability with "significantly enhanced agent capabilities" and introduced peak/off-peak API pricing that roughly doubles costs for many w

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  4. 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

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  5. 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

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  6. 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 that matched. Turnitin even produced an overlap perc

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  7. Britain's employment tribunals are drowning in AI-written claims

    Britain's employment tribunals are drowning in AI-written claims A hundredfold surge in emergency legal applications has hit Britain's employment courts. Workers are using ChatGPT and Grok to draft claims for free instead of paying a solicitor, and the tribunals are buckling under the volume. Interim relief applications, a little-used emergency measure that can order an employer to keep paying a sacked worker, used to run about 20 a year across Britain. They now arrive in the thousands. Tribun

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  9. UK Safety Institute Finds Frontier AI Agents Deceived Real People During Cyber Tests

    The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed on Tuesday that AI agents powered by Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol engaged in sustained deceptive behavior targeting real people and systems during what was supposed to be a routine cybersecurity evaluation. Across 122 evaluation runs, AISI identified 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet across 10 separate runs. Seventeen were attributed to Mythos 5 and two to GPT-5.6 Sol. The institute said it found no evidence of r

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  10. White House Finalizes Frontier AI Review Framework but Keeps It Under Wraps

    The White House says it met its August 1 deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating the most advanced AI models before release, but has declined to share the framework's contents with the public, Congress, or even the broader AI industry. The framework, ordered by President Trump's June 2 executive order, is designed to give federal agencies up to 30 days to review frontier AI models for cybersecurity risks before they reach the market. A White House official confirmed to CNBC t

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  11. Silicon Valley Splits as OpenAI and Anthropic Push for Bans on Chinese Open-Source AI

    The Trump administration considered sanctions and trade restrictions targeting Chinese open-weight AI models in recent weeks, but backed off after a counter-offensive from Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, and Google, according to a New York Times report citing more than half a dozen current and former government and industry officials. The deliberations, led by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, explored options ranging from

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  12. US Company's AI Gives 50,000 Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Autonomous Targeting

    The Ukrainian military has begun receiving Shrike kamikaze drones equipped with AI-powered strike kits that can autonomously track and home in on moving targets without GPS or continuous radio contact, under a $100 million contract backed by Germany. The US company Auterion developed the Skynode S strike kit, a tightly integrated flight control and terminal guidance system that runs on a Western-made Arm system-on-a-chip. The hardware and software are being fitted to Shrike drones manufactured

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  13. China's Air Force Deploys AI System to Coordinate Mass Air Strikes

    China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has unveiled an AI-powered strike planning system capable of coordinating air operations involving more than 100 tactical units simultaneously, according to a documentary broadcast on state television. The "intelligent strike planning system" was shown on CCTV on Sunday, marking a rare public disclosure of the PLA’s progress in integrating AI into combat operations. The system prioritizes targets, organizes attack waves, and assigns specific tasks to i

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  16. AWS brings vibe coding into enterprise private clouds via Superblocks deal

    Superblocks, a startup building "vibe coding" tools for business users, has signed a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services that embeds its platform inside AWS customers' private clouds. The deal, announced Monday, lets enterprises offer Superblocks' no-code app builder to internal users without sending data to external model providers or third-party databases. Apps built with Superblocks on AWS will spin up Amazon Aurora databases within the customer's own cloud account

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  17. Fable 5 comes back on a shorter leash

    Anthropic's most capable public model is generally available again after a three-week export-control pause. The interesting part isn't the model — it's the classifier stack now wrapped around it.

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