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AUGUST 14, 2026
AUGUST 13, 2026
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Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the Claude maker’s largest known acquisition. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’
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Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]

Anthropic's Claude Breaches Sandbox During Model Security Evaluations
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Anthropic's Claude Breaches Sandbox During Model Security Evaluations

Anthropic conducted an audit of 141006 evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox escape disclosure. The review identified three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet due to misconfigurations. These incidents involved unauthorised attacks on live targets. Anthropic has suspended offensive evaluations and plans to enhance security measures and collaborate with external auditors. By Olimpiu Pop

Presentation: Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview
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Presentation: Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview

Nick DiStefano shares how Uber Eats migrated from traditional native app screens to a native-driven, single-page WebView architecture. He explains key strategies for engineering leaders and software architects looking to bypass native release cycles, manage cross-platform state, build generic native-web message bridges, and execute large-scale UI migrations without degrading metrics. By Nick DiStefano

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Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping

Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every tool exposed by a MCP server. Okta calls the resulting prompt overhead the “tool tax”: tokens consumed as a model considers tools, including […] The post Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping appeared first on AI News.

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Anthropic Eyes $6 Billion Offer For AI Startup Decart

Anthropic is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Matthew Bloxham explains that Decart's so-called world models could reduce the cost of training AI by making chips more effective and that the deal could provide an important boost to Anthropic's growth. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Can India Meet AI’s Power Demands? | Emerging

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a new layer of strategic infrastructure, but it's hungry for power. In this episode of Emerging, Bloomberg's Menaka Doshi explores how the AI boom is reshaping electricity demand and whether it could strain power grids already challenged by rising temperatures and rapid economic growth. Featuring Tata Power CEO Praveer Sinha and Mohit Bhargava of the India Energy & Climate Center, the conversation examines whether India can generate enough power for th

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Nvidia Taps Wall Street for $500B Funding

US investment giants including Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Brookfield are partnering with Nvidia to source $500 billion in financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Bloomberg's Michelle Davis reports on "Bloomberg Deals." (Source: Bloomberg)

AUGUST 12, 2026
Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on Its Data Lake
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Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on Its Data Lake

Spotify introduced external indexing architecture for Apache Parquet data lakes that enables low-latency point queries without replicating datasets into operational databases. The approach maps lookup keys to Parquet files and row locations, allowing targeted reads from cloud object storage while supporting analytics, machine learning, AI applications, and online services from the same datasets. By Leela Kumili

Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup
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Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup

Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: He's launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer "personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs." But his ambitions go well […]

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Tech Investments Boost Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund

Norway's sovereign wealth fund delivered its strongest quarterly performance in six years, driven by its exposure to major technology companies including Nvidia Corp., Apple Inc., and Microsoft Corp. Additionally, the fund's CEO Nicolai Tangen highlighted the positive impact of Asian tech stocks on overall profits. Bloomberg'sHeidi Taksdal Skjeseth reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Redpoint’s Brescia on Nvidia’s $500B Funding, AI Capex

Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, discussed Super Micro's robust business model and strong market position during the segment. Despite recent volatility, Super Micro benefits from significant pricing power and a durable business model as a key supplier of hardware components essential for AI-driven growth. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
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ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT […]

Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
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Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users

Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.

AUGUST 11, 2026
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Nvidia Taps Wall Street for $500 Billion Funding Commitment

US investment giants including Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to source $500 billion in financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow joins to discuss this as well as Intel raised $20 billion in an upsized share sale, a third more than it was targeting when it announced the deal Monday morning. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Rocket Lab Drops on Launch Pushback; Riot Platforms' Anthropic Deal | Stock Movers

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms (RIOT), a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity. Riot disclosed it had secured a 20-year deal to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a “leading frontier AI” company. - Rocket Lab (RKLB) shares drop as much as 5.7% after the company’s Neutron timeline softened, with an analyst saying that while Neutron remains on track to reach l

Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
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Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images

Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," Anthropic says on a new Claude support page. The changes are invisible to human […]

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How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline

Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour and identify flaws that conventional tools may overlook. The pressure is particularly visible around Zero-day vulnerabilities, a recent Minimus analysis considers how container composition, dependency records and rebuild speed affect the response after an unknown flaw is exposed. Faster analysis helps only […] The post How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline appeared first on A

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Making Sense of the Multibillion-Dollar Numbers of Nvidia Deal, Intel Share Sale

Nvidia is becoming the "banker of choice to the AI ecosystem" as it seals $500 billion commitments from Wall Street giants. Meanwhile, Intel is looking at its first share sale since the 1970s. Bloomberg's reporters and market watchers make sense of the multibillion-dollar figures, with one noting the capital raise could be a "double-edged" sword for Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Riot Platforms

Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity, people familiar with the matter said, underscoring the Claude maker’s efforts to secure enough computing to meet its customers’ demand.

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Nvidia Taps Wall Street for $500 Billion Funding

US investment giants including Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)

AUGUST 10, 2026
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GameStop’s Cohen Said to Weigh Pulling $56 Billion EBay Bid

GameStop, led by Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, is considering withdrawing its $56 billion bid for eBay Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Bailey Lipshultz joins to discuss this as well as how Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, joining its data center peers in tapping demand for exposure to the artificial intelligence theme. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs

Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta says developers can use it for local coding, function calling, local agents, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation. The release targets an operational […] The post Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs appeared first on AI News.

Presentation: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for GenAI Red Teaming
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Presentation: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for GenAI Red Teaming

Kennedy Torkura discusses practical GenAI red teaming techniques to safeguard LLMs and knowledge bases against security threats like data poisoning and LLMjacking on AWS. He explains how engineering leaders and architects can bridge traditional cloud security with MITRE ATLAS frameworks to proactively identify vulnerabilities, implement guardrails, and secure production AI applications. By Kennedy Torkura

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AI Safety Fears Grow After Multiple Breaches

The infiltration of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents has put AI-enabled cyber attacks into the spotlight. The incident and similar breaches reported by Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. have fueled calls in Washington and Silicon Valley for more thorough safety reviews of artificial intelligence models. Bloomberg's Jordan Robertson reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Google Releases Angular v22 with Stable Signal Forms, OnPush by Default and Experimental WebMCP
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Google Releases Angular v22 with Stable Signal Forms, OnPush by Default and Experimental WebMCP

Angular v22, Google's TypeScript-first framework, has introduced API stabilizations, ergonomic templates, and tooling enhancements for AI integration. Key developments include the stabilization of Signal Forms, improved change detection strategies, and a new @Service() decorator for dependency injection. The release supports TypeScript 6 and removes deprecated features. By Daniel Curtis

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Shein Valued at $22 Billion to $25 Billion Ahead of IPO, BI Says

Shein Global Holdings Ltd.’s fast-fashion niche supports a valuation of $22 billion to $25 billion, Bloomberg Intelligence said, putting a fresh marker on one of the biggest questions surrounding the retailer as it prepares for one of the year’s biggest initial public offerings.

AUGUST 09, 2026
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
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AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before ChatGPT became a thing, […]

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Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data […] The post Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli appeared first on AI News.

Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents
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Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents

Instacart introduced Blueberry, an AI-assisted incident response system that helps on-call engineers investigate production issues faster. It combines AI agents, operational data, and historical incident knowledge to generate grounded root cause hypotheses in Slack. It uses parallel subagents, MCP integrations, and incident history to reduce investigation time while keeping engineers in control. By Leela Kumili

AUGUST 08, 2026
Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates
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Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates

Martin Spier explains how agentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI. He discusses the hidden systemic performance costs of rapid shipping beyond GPUs, and shares how deploying always-on AI agents automates profiling, regression detection, and continuous optimization to maintain product speed and scalability at massive global scale. By Martin Spier

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful
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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

AUGUST 07, 2026
What’s behind the Google AI shake-up
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What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]

Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
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Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or Anthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light. In Lepore’s upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, the Pulitzer […]

Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics
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Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics

Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that AI agents generate most of its code. The company describes a shift from measuring PR size to assessing blast radius, with feature flags and rollback capability taking precedence over line counts. By Matt Saunders

Azure API Management Adds Dedicated AI Gateway Tier, Governing Models and MCP Tools
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Azure API Management Adds Dedicated AI Gateway Tier, Governing Models and MCP Tools

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI and OpenAI behind one endpoint, with policy cards instead of XML. Architects welcomed the consolidation while questioning where the governance boundary sits. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AUGUST 06, 2026
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
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OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but […]

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Sequoia Capital's $10 Billion Plan for the AI Economy

Sequoia Capital has backed many of the defining companies of the last half-century, from Apple and Google to Nvidia and SpaceX. Now, co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady join Bloomberg to discuss the firm's next chapter, why it made a franchise-defining investment in Anthropic, its renewed focus on semiconductors, and how Sequoia is adapting its investment philosophy for the AI era. They join Ed Ludlow for an extensive exclusive interview on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup's employees as theft, and "generic" product development information […]

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SoftBank Profit Beats Expectations

SoftBank Group Corp. reported a smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly net income, helped by a rally in its chip-stock holdings. OpenAI’s Japanese backer is in the spotlight alongside concerns about climbing debt levels that AI service providers are taking on to spend on data centers and other infrastructure. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Siemens Is Winning Customers in China, CEO Says

Siemens Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch says the company is "very competitive" in China, where the automation business is doing "very well." He also comments on the data center business. Busch speaks on Bloomberg Television after Siemens raised its earnings expectations for a second time this year due to a surge in data center spending and higher returns from selling software to industry. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Meta AI Model Accessed Internet, Hacked Outside Firm

Meta Platforms Inc. said one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following other recent incidents across the AI industry that have escalated concerns about companies’ control over their technology.

AUGUST 05, 2026
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Amazon's Zoox Robotaxi Enters the Commercial Race

Zoox is entering a new phase of its business as it's getting ready to launch paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas, becoming the first company in the US to charge for rides in a purpose-built, steering wheel-free autonomous vehicle. Zoox CEO Aicha Evans joins Bloomberg to discuss pricing, expansion plans and production ramp-up. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
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Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security […]

Ponytail Agent Skill Corrects Its Own Benchmark After Contributor Challenge
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Ponytail Agent Skill Corrects Its Own Benchmark After Contributor Challenge

A single-author repo of instruction files, not code, Ponytail passed 44,000 GitHub stars in nine days by making coding agents stop over-building. Its headline claim of 80-94% less code came from a flawed baseline; after a contributor said so, the maintainer rebuilt the benchmark as a real agentic run and published a lower figure of 54%. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

SkiaSharp 4.0 Establishes Milestone-Aligned Release Cadence
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SkiaSharp 4.0 Establishes Milestone-Aligned Release Cadence

Microsoft and Uno Platform have released the first stable versions in the SkiaSharp 4 series, beginning with SkiaSharp 4.148.0 and followed shortly afterward by 4.150.0. A 4.151.0 prerelease line is also available, demonstrating the project’s new approach of aligning package versions and release cadence with upstream Skia milestones. By Edin Kapić

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OpenAI, Anthropic Model Tests Reveal More ‘Unsanctioned’ Actions

Artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic PBC carried out “unsanctioned” actions — including hacking a website and attempting to inject harmful code into software during safety testing — reinforcing fears that neither the creators nor seasoned researchers of these systems can predict their actions in testing.

AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
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AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said […]

AUGUST 04, 2026
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Apple Asks Judge to Bar OpenAI From Using Alleged Trade Secrets

Apple Inc. asked a federal judge to immediately order OpenAI to stop using what it calls stolen trade secrets, the latest salvo in its lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence company of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal proprietary information about upcoming products.

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion
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OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email […]

eslint-rspack-plugin 5.0.0 Ships as a Pure ESM Package, Aligning with the Rstack Ecosystem
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eslint-rspack-plugin 5.0.0 Ships as a Pure ESM Package, Aligning with the Rstack Ecosystem

Version 5.0.0 of eslint-rspack-plugin has been released as a pure ESM package, aligning with the Rspack ecosystem and removing its CommonJS build. The plugin continues to integrate ESLint in the build process but may affect build times. Users are advised to consider separate linting commands for efficiency. The project is open source and available via npm. By Daniel Curtis

Swarm of OpenAI Agents Exploit Artifactory Zero-Day to Escape Sandbox and Breach Hugging Face
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Swarm of OpenAI Agents Exploit Artifactory Zero-Day to Escape Sandbox and Breach Hugging Face

Security disclosures highlighted vulnerabilities in AI evaluations of autonomous cyber capabilities. Notably, OpenAI’s models escaped sandbox isolation, breaching Hugging Face’s systems. The incident involved a multi-stage attack, revealing flaws in evaluation containment and prompting calls for stricter infrastructure controls and local incident response tools. By Olimpiu Pop

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OpenAI Hack Could Have Been 'Way Worse,' Hugging Face CEO Says

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says a hack by OpenAI could have been "way worse" if not for the company's defensive measures. He calls this a "wake up call" for the industry and says the incident has been reported to lawmakers and authorities. He speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)

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'Concentration of Power' One of Biggest Risks in AI, Says Hugging Face CEO

Clement Delangue, CEO of AI company Hugging Face, sat down with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow to discuss OpenAI models' hack on Hugging Face last month and the future of AI regulation. Talking about the hack, Delangue, said that while companies want AI agents to think outside the box, they don't want AI to 'think outside the sandbox' and stay in the closed testing environment. Delangue also discussed government involvement in AI regulation and said that there is a risk that too much government intervent

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Alibaba's New Model, Amazon's AI Win and Apple's Next Chapter | Bloomberg Tech 8/3/2026

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alibaba's latest Qwen model, its biggest ever, claiming performance on par with Anthropic. Plus, AWS CEO Matt Garman joins after Amazon surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, extending gains after a big cloud and AI-driven earnings report last week. And, we dive into the details of the new Apple Upgrade program and iPhone-maker's next era of growth as the company reinvents itself as a subscription giant. (Source: Bloomberg)

AUGUST 03, 2026
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
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Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a […]

Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability
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Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The Cyber Alchemist's Ghosh on AI Cyber-security risks

Ajoy Ghosh, Founder and Chief Information Security Officer at The Cyber Alchemist, discusses his perspective on cybersecurity measures and solutions companies should consider following the recent hacking incidents disclosed by Anthropic and OpenAI. He speaks with Haidi Stroud Watts and Paul Allen on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)

Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0
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Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0

Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to define agents as typed domain objects. Built on Spring AI, Embabel supports multiple model providers and combines planning with predefined state machines, offering flexibility for agent workflows. By Erik Costlow

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI
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Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]

AUGUST 02, 2026
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Bloomberg This Weekend | Iran Strikes On Hold, the Digital Divide Over AI

The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Tom Nides, Fmr. US Ambassador to Israel, and Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor. Correct: This video has been edited to remove graphics that misstated several earnings dates for this week. AMD and Paramount report on Tuesday and Disney on Wednesday.

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Who Governs the AI Boom?

Should AI be regulated, or should society adapt to it instead? Economist Jason Furman argues that not every AI problem should be solved the same way. From bioweapons to job losses, he explains where the government should step in, where markets should adjust, and why the biggest AI debate may ultimately be a moral one. (Source: Bloomberg)

Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?
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Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount to theft, and in response, many gen AI boosters have argued that it's necessary for the technology's evolution. This has led to contentious legal battles, but it's […]