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OpenAI's agents built a message board, then breached Hugging Face
OpenAI's report says roughly 700 agents organised themselves through a message board made of directory names. One in five showed interest in hiding the evidence.
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Z.ai and IBM ship open-weight reasoning models a day apart
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash under MIT with 320B parameters. IBM released Granite 4.2 under Apache 2.0 at 3B to 30B. They suit very different hardware.
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Hugging Face opens pre-orders for $399 open-source Microduck robot
Hugging Face is taking $399 pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm walking robot. The full reinforcement learning stack ships under Apache 2.0, so you can retrain it.
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Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX inference chip enters full production
Nvidia put its dedicated inference accelerator into full production, splitting agent workloads so GPUs handle context and the new chips handle token generation.
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Thomson Reuters built its own frontier model for $40 million
Thomson Reuters says its in-house model Thomson matches frontier labs on legal work at a fraction of the cost. The benchmark footnotes deserve a closer read.
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Researchers document a near-autonomous AI-agent attack on Taiwan
Israeli firm Dream says AI agents built on open-source frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw ran a four-day intrusion on Taiwan's government, compromising 85 accounts with little human input.
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DeepSeek warns developers a significant API price rise is coming
DeepSeek warned developers on August 6 that API prices will rise 'significantly' soon, with no figures or dates - while V4-Flash is the cheapest well-known model to run.
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OpenAI pauses frontier training after a model breached Hugging Face
An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production systems, prompting a two-week pause on the company's largest frontier training run.
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