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  1. 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

    AI News
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  2. Google folds DeepMind into the main business as Hassabis signals an exit

    Google DeepMind is losing the independent status it held since the lab's founding, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the company in the coming months, according to multiple reports. A former Google manager told the Guardian that the 'era of DeepMind as an independent actor is over,' and a current DeepMind employee now describes the lab as 'just another subdivision' of Google. Day-to-day operations are shifting to AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu from the United States, but he is not taking th

    Google
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  3. Nvidia and Amazon channel billions into AI power infrastructure

    Nvidia and Amazon are putting serious money into the power generation needed to keep AI data centers running, with two separate deals announced this week that underscore how energy has become a bottleneck for the industry. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle data center in Texas, according to The Information. A roughly $2 billion stake would give Nvidia about 20 percent of the company, which is valued at around $10 bil

    Infrastructure
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  4. Anthropic Makes Auto Mode Default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team Plans

    Starting August 14, 2026, new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans will run in auto mode by default, Anthropic announced on its blog. Users who have pinned a different default keep it, and users who set a different default may get a one-time prompt asking whether to switch. What Auto Mode Does Auto Mode routes every tool call through a classifier that screens for irreversible, destructive, or externally-aimed actions. When the classifier blocks something, Claude attempts a safer al

    AI Coding
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  5. Amazon Data Center Could Be Powered by One of the Nation's Most Polluting Power Plants

    Amazon is investing in a new natural-gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to supply a West Texas data center, and the project holds a permit that would allow it to emit more carbon dioxide than any coal plant in the country, according to The Verge and the New York Times. The plant, tracked as GW Ranch by Cleanview, a service that monitors data center power projects, would deploy 35 natural-gas turbines generating about 7.65 gigawatts. At least initially, the plant would not connect to

    Amazon
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  6. xAI Imagine Image 2.0 Lands Just Behind OpenAI GPT-Image-2 in Arena Benchmarks

    xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in the Grok iOS and Android apps. The model now sits second in the world on both major image leaderboards, behind only OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. On the Arena leaderboards as of August 7, the faster “low” variant of the model scores an Elo of 1,320 in the Text-to-Image Arena, trailing GPT-Image-2 at 1,380. In the Image Edit Arena it hits 1,439, again behind GPT-Image-2 at 1,463. The model is listed under

    Image Generation
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  7. OpenAI Flags Astra Model as Potentially Reaching Critical Cybersecurity Risk Level

    OpenAI has paused parts of development on its upcoming Astra model after internal evaluations indicated it could reach the highest risk tier — "Critical" — in the company's Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity capabilities. This is the first time OpenAI has flagged one of its own models as potentially reaching this level. Key Points * Internal tests of Astra showed "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity" over the past few days, leading OpenAI to conclude it cannot

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  8. ByteDance Trains 10 Trillion-Parameter AI Model to Rival Anthropic's Mythos

    ByteDance is pretraining a large model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a scale the Financial Times reports could put it in the same class as Anthropic's most advanced systems. The model, still in early pretraining, would be more than three times the size of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model at 2.8 trillion parameters. Three people familiar with the project told the FT the model is in pretraining, a phase that typically lasts three to six months before full training a

    ByteDance
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  9. Why DeepMind Researchers Are Leaving: Limited TPU Access, Bureaucracy, and a Chips Conflict

    As senior AI researchers continue to leave Google DeepMind, reporting is surfacing reasons behind the departures. Two recurring themes: limited access to Google's TPU chips, and a conflict of interest where Google Cloud sells those same chips to rivals the researchers are expected to beat. Semafor reported that CEO Demis Hassabis stepped back from daily operations about a year ago, turning those duties over to DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu. Hassabis was not forced out, but reportedly found m

    DeepMind
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  10. Anthropic Opens Self-Hosted Environments for Claude Code, Moving Sessions Onto Customer Infrastructure

    Anthropic has opened a public beta of self-hosted environments for Claude Code, letting organizations run coding-agent cloud sessions on servers they control instead of Anthropic's infrastructure. The option is available to Claude Team and Enterprise customers and is off by default. Anthropic announced the move on August 6, 2026. A session started from the web, mobile, desktop, the terminal, or a scheduled routine runs inside the organization's network, alongside its internal services, toolchai

    Anthropic
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