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The skeptic takes a board seat
DeepSeek’s Flash undercuts its own Pro; Anthropic hands METR the keys after a fourth Claude incident; Positron raises $875M for memory-first inference.
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Apple folds the phone — and the labs name the odds
iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for October; Muse asks for your apps; Anthropic’s alignment lead puts extinction above 10%.
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Samsung backs Mistral’s €3 billion bet
Amazon’s Qualcomm chip deal, Anthropic’s reported Decart walk-away, and DeepMind’s nine billion DNA predictions.
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OpenAI’s chief scientist wants the brakes
Anthropic’s reported $517B compute commitments, Inspur’s chip network, Isar reaches orbit, and Pixxel’s $100M raise.
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GPT-6 Astra is live
OpenAI’s cyber benchmarks, a $1B Daybreak bet, ARC’s two harnesses, Cybercab under watch, and Crusoe’s reported $30B mark.
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Nvidia bought the open-source town square
Hugging Face’s $12.93B deal, a machine-speed cyberattack, and the next turn in the agent race.
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OpenAI calls Astra Critical
Fable 5.1 dropped yesterday with a gated twin. Cognition courts $47B. Wonderful closes $550M.
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Ternus walks into an AI fight
Ternus takes Apple. Anthropic’s $35B compute chain. The FTC says Amazon’s ad auctions weren’t auctions.
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August 2026

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