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  1. Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B model that rivals 4x larger models on agent tasks

    Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B on Monday, a 2.6-billion-parameter model designed to run capable AI agents entirely on consumer hardware. The model is available on Hugging Face with open weights and targets on-device deployment across laptops and phones. LFM2.5-2.6B achieves 220 tokens per second on an Apple M5 Max and 113 tokens per second on an AMD Ryzen CPU, fitting within 2.5 GB of memory. Liquid AI positions it as competitive with models roughly four times its size on tool use, instruction

    Models
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  2. Mistral launches Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights policy-adaptive safety classifier

    Mistral AI released Shieldstral on Monday, a 3-billion-parameter open-weights safety classifier that matches or outperforms guard models up to seven times its size. The model is available under Apache 2.0 and runs on a single 16 GB GPU. What sets Shieldstral apart from typical guardrail models is its approach to content moderation. Rather than baking a fixed taxonomy of harm categories into the model weights — which forces developers to retrain whenever their safety requirements change — Shield

    Safety
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  3. 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

    AI News
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  4. 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

    AI News
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  5. ChatGPT Captures 88% of Identifiable House AI Spending

    OpenAI's ChatGPT accounted for roughly 88 cents of every dollar the U.S. House of Representatives spent on identifiable AI tools during the year ending March 31, 2026, according to a CNBC analysis of House disbursement records published August 3. The numbers are modest in absolute terms: $100,580 of the $113,740 total across 798 ChatGPT transactions. Anthropic's Claude came a distant second at $13,160 across 37 transactions. But they represent the first clear snapshot of which AI vendors are ga

    AI
    2 min read

  6. AI Chatbots Are Making Reddit a Prime Target for SEO Manipulation

    Reddit has become the most-cited domain by leading AI chatbots, according to new data from Semrush, and that status is attracting a wave of brand manipulation that subreddit moderators are scrambling to contain. Semrush, the SEO analytics firm now owned by Adobe, compiled data for The Verge showing that Reddit was the most-cited domain in May 2026 by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Google AI Mode combined. It outranked every news publisher, every scholarly article repository, and Wikipe

    AI Search
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  7. 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

    AI
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  8. 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

    AI
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  9. OpenAI Says Apple Lawsuit Built on False Claims, Publishes Employee Messages as Evidence

    OpenAI published a detailed rebuttal on August 3 to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, alleging that Apple's legal filing contains false claims, an email sent to the wrong person, and a mischaracterization of routine post-employment interactions between former Apple employees and their old colleagues. The blog post, titled "Apple is getting this wrong," is OpenAI's first substantive response since Apple sued the company and two former Apple employees -- Tang Tan and Chang Liu -- in July. Apple's co

    OpenAI
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  10. China Draws Up Retaliation Options Over US Restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos

    China Draws Up Retaliation Options Over US Restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos China is preparing potential countermeasures against American AI companies in response to US restrictions on access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, according to Bloomberg. Chinese officials have questioned the Trump administration's decision to block foreign access to Mythos and Anthropic's Fable model, and are reportedly drawing up response options that include sanctions or outright bans on American AI companies

    Policy
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