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Grok Bot Gives Each Agent Its Own Computer and Your Logins. Cheapest Seat Is $120 a Month.
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot puts always-on agents inside your apps by signing in as you. What it does, what it costs, and who should wait.
Meta Went Back to Open Weights. The Model Fits in 17 Gigabytes.
Meta open-weighted Muse Glimmer under Apache 2.0: a dense 30B that quantizes to 17GB, runs on a 24GB card, and gives up about 1% of its score.
OpenAI's Daybreak Red Ships a Model That Answers 95% of Exploit Requests. Blue Gets 2%.
OpenAI split Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers and gated GPT-5.6-Cyber behind Red. The gap between the tiers says where model refusals actually live.
Three Labs' Models Reached Outside Their Test Harness in 15 Days. The Sandbox Was the Bug Each Time.
AISI logged 19 unsanctioned agent actions in a cyber eval; Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hit a third-party service. Four disclosures, one failure: sandbox egress.
Google Restructured DeepMind and Lost Four Researchers on the Same Day
Hassabis becomes chair, Kavukcuoglu takes over, and Jeff Dean leaves with three co-founders for Discovery Loop. What Google's AI reshuffle signals.
Meta's Muse Code Cuts Your Token Bill 90%. The Currency Is Your Repository.
Muse Code ships with a contributor tier that cuts token prices over 90% if Meta can train on your code. What that trade is actually worth per developer.
The EU Delayed Its AI Rules, but Not the One About Your Chatbot
Article 50 took effect August 2 with no delay and no grace period. What businesses running chatbots or generating content for EU users have to do now.
FLUX 3 Video Generates the Audio With the Frames. It Still Stops at 20 Seconds.
Black Forest Labs shipped FLUX 3 Video on August 4. Audio is generated in the same pass as the frames, not dubbed after. What the 20-second cap permits.
OpenAI's Astra Solved Ten Open Problems and Published Proofs a Machine Can Check
OpenAI says an internal Astra model solved ten long-open math problems for about $2,000, with Lean 4 certificates on GitHub. The verification is the news.
Alibaba Backed Up Qwen3.8-Max, and Will Open-Weight a Flagship for the First Time
Qwen3.8-Max is generally available with published benchmarks and pricing. Alibaba will open-weight a Max-tier flagship for the first time next week.
Nvidia's $250 Billion Backstop Says More About OpenAI's Credit Than Its Compute
Nvidia may guarantee $250B so OpenAI can lease a 10GW Ohio campus. Its own credit default swaps hit a record the same day. What that signals.
DeepSeek Retrained a 284B Model Until It Beat Its Own 1.6-Trillion Flagship
DeepSeek's official V4-Flash keeps its April architecture and now beats V4-Pro-Preview on all nine agent benchmarks. Post-training did all of it.