CodeRabbit banks $143M at a $1.5B valuation, Deepseek hikes API prices, and OpenAI finds no link between AI use and revenue per employee.

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• CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
• Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%
• Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices
• Buried in OpenAI’s latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee
• Spotify will now label AI creators posing as human artists

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Grok 4.6 matches GPT-5.6 Sol on benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, while new research exposes LLM prompt extraction risks.

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• SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price
• Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy
• The dream of serving ads to AI agents has hit a snag
• AI tools for breast cancer detection fall short of radiologists' expectations
• Election AI Deleted 5.5M Voters While World Governed Deepfakes Instead

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Claude output gets invisible IDs, Meta splits from Manus under Beijing order, and Nvidia's fast Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lands.

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• Anthropic just rolled out a tool that'll decimate some people's dreams of writing AI novels undetected
• Zuckerberg envisions 'superintelligence' for everyone in AI manifesto
• Apple Silicon AI Performance: Local Al on Apple Silicon Uses 7X Less RAM
• Did The Tech Bros Trick Us?
• Is Pinterest the reliable antidote to AI slop?
• Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence
• Manus is breaking from Meta as China forces the $2 billion AI deal apart
• ChatGPT Business Adds $125 Premium Seat for Power Users Hitting Five-Hour Cap
• Anthropic signs $9.1 billion data center deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms
• "But marinade" and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT's hidden reasoning

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OpenAI restricts its cyber model to approved partners, while Meta ships an open-weight agentic model for a single consumer GPU.

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• OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do
• Meta Launches Muse Glimmer: First Consumer GPU Agent Model Built for Autonomous Tasks
• OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.6 Cyber, but it's only for approved users

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OpenAI pauses Astra work after internal tests suggest it may hit the highest cybersecurity risk tier, plus AMD buys Taalas and Meta launches Muse Code.

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• OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
• AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
• Meta Launches Muse Code AI Coding Agent to Rival OpenAI and Anthropic
• Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins
• Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
• AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
• xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
• AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack
• Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
• Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model
• Anthropic Flips Claude Code to Auto Mode by Default Aug 14 | AI Weekly

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OpenAI's AI agents secretly compromised its infrastructure, sparking a security overhaul and industry-wide reviews.

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• OpenAI reportedly slows research after its own models secretly coordinated hacks for weeks undetected
• Meta Enters the A.I. Coding Wars
• GPT-5 turning one as OpenAI shares new Agent Plugins standard
• DeepMind AI gives an extra day of warning ahead of deadly cyclones
• This AI just created viruses not found in nature

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UK safety test reveals AI agents took unsanctioned actions on the live internet, including social engineering and code poisoning attempts.

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• Anthropic's AI model tried to trick humans into poisoning code during safety testing
• Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
• Meta AI agent hacked external company during testing after gaining internet access, company reports
• AI Browsers Vulnerable to 'PleaseFix' Zero-Click Agent Hijacking
• Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

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Perplexity overturns Amazon ban, Linux Foundation unveils AI security framework, and fake CVEs flood the NVD.

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• Perplexity Overturns Amazon Ban on AI Shopping Bot on Appeal (1)
• AI Security Gets Its First Voluntary Incident-Disclosure Framework at Black Hat
• Someone posted 55 vulnerabilities in days. 54 were AI-invented. One still scored a perfect 10.
• OpenAI, Anthropic Model Tests Reveal More Unsanctioned' Actions
• OpenAI, Anthropic agents implicated in new security breaches

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House panel seeks OpenAI briefing on rogue agent attack; DeepSeek's 85x price gap reshapes AI economics; Erdős problems fall to AI.

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• US House panel seeks briefing on OpenAI's AI agent security breach
• What the DeepSeek Kill Line Actually Cuts: 8 Trillion Daily Tokens on a Single Tool, 85x Price Gap, and the Squeeze on Mid-Tier Models in Agent Economics
• Reddit sues Anthropic as Huffman claims a third of OpenAI's training set
• Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
• Nvidia's real moat was never the chips. AI has started rewriting it.

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Agentic AI security incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft; Gemini Robotics 2; Deepseek V4 Flash; OpenAI's Astra teaser; and more.

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• AI Agents At OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft Broke Out, Broke In, Obeyed
• Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids
• New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost
• OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient
• Claude Under Hot Water After Exposing Users' Private Conversations — Here's What Happened
• A security researcher built a self-spreading worm that hides inside Word docs and hijacks Microsoft Copilot
• GPT-Live Voice Gets SynthID Watermarks One Day Before EU AI Act Enforcement
• Google handed users the easiest possible tool for fake satellite imagery, then pulled it after two days
• Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
• OpenAI Smuggled the Announcement of Astra, Its Next AI Model, Into a Blog Post About Math
• A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop
• Claude Opus 5 pushes prompt-to-game AI from rough color blocks to full 3D prototypes with physics and music

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