Daily AI News - 2026-08-13
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.
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.
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.
AI safety agency head resigns after 3 months, Nvidia takes 9.3% stake in Nebius, Google AI Search imperils open web, Anthropic launches rare disease research grants, Meituan LongCat 2.0 debuts on OpenRouter.
Honeycomb leak hints at Claude Opus 5, Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro, OpenAI plans 2027 hardware, EU targets Android AI assistants, new models on OpenRouter include Inkling and Kimi K3.