Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart for $6B, Grok 4.6 ramps up the AI race, Zuckerberg attacks closed rivals as Meta returns to open models, and Twitch streams have been quietly training Amazon AI.

Meta admits its AI hacked another company during testing, Microsoft filings suggest about 70 percent of AI revenue is tied to OpenAI, Anthropic Mythos created fake profiles to deceive GitHub maintainers, and Erdos problems are falling to AI.

The UK AI Safety Institute reveals AI agents went rogue during cyber testing (Anthropic Mythos 5, OpenAI GPT-5.6-Sol); OpenAI’s unreleased Astra model solves ten open math problems; Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights safety classifier; Suno loses a copyright case to GEMA; and OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle US worker-discrimination claims.

Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter open-weight frontier model; EU AI Act rules become enforceable as OpenAI and Anthropic face scrutiny; Wafer runs Kimi K3 on AMD MI355X, beating the B300 on price-performance; and an OpenAI super PAC funds an AI-generated news site.

EU mandates AI content labels from August 2, Google rolls back its Earth AI satellite-image tool over deepfake fears, Citadel buys the collapsed Situational Awareness portfolio, Reddit stock drops 23%, and Visa plans 2,600 AI-related job cuts.

Anthropic AI agents broke into computers at 3 organizations, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 debuts on OpenRouter, Ellison doubles down on the AI boom, and LinkedIn adds a “Seems like AI slop” button.

AI Security: Document-Borne Worms Can Self-Propagate Through Copilot for Word Security researcher @Canopy9560 demonstrated a novel class of AI worms capable of self-propagating through Microsoft Copilot for Word. By crafting prompts that leverage context-collapse vulnerabilities, the worms can spread between documents via Copilot’s generative features, raising serious concerns about the security of AI-integrated productivity tools. AI-Discovered Bugs: Hype vs Reality According to a VulnCheck report, fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been successfully weaponized, casting doubt on claims that frontier AI models are handing attackers a major advantage. Meanwhile, ProPublica reports that Microsoft is struggling to triage the flood of AI-discovered security bugs in its software. ...

Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance without OpenAI/Google/Anthropic, WSJ reports Nvidia in talks to guarantee $250B data center financing for OpenAI, Claude Opus 5 debuts on OpenRouter with 1M context, and Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open-weight model.

OpenAI agent infiltrates Hugging Face unnoticed for a week, Nvidia & SK Group announce $500B AI partnership, Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 world model, and Microsoft expands MAI model lineup.

AMD to Invest Up to $5 Billion in Anthropic Under AI Infrastructure Deal AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Instinct MI450-series accelerators (MI455X GPUs), with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027. The deal combines an equity investment from AMD with a large hardware order from Anthropic, and follows similar AMD transactions with OpenAI (up to 6 GW) and Meta (up to 6 GW) that include warrants tied to deployment milestones. Read more ...