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- 6 August 2026Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs1 citation
- 6 August 2026Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing1 citation
- 6 August 2026Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.21 citation
- 6 August 2026Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)1 citation
- 6 August 2026Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI1 citation
- 5 August 2026LLM 0.32 adds reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, and server-side tools1 citation
- 5 August 2026Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation1 citation
- 5 August 2026Open-weight AI models approach frontier capabilities, safety gap persists1 citation
- 5 August 2026Systematic study examines plateau of AI benchmarks1 citation
- 4 August 2026AirLLM enables 70B parameter inference on a single 4GB GPU1 citation
- 4 August 2026Design Arena raises $7.9M to bring human taste to AI model evaluation1 citation
- 4 August 2026Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules take effect1 citation
- 4 August 2026Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development, sparking decel debate1 citation
- 4 August 2026Steve Yegge details Opus 4.7's 'just two more things' tic in AI development1 citation
- 3 August 2026AI migration of COBOL to Java preserves bugs, raising quality concerns1 citation