AI
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The White House has finalized an AI cybersecurity framework but is keeping its details secret, a White House official confirmed to WIRED.
AI
A Programmable Wallet Designed for AI Agents
On August 4, Cloudflare announced the official launch of Cloudflare Wallet.
AI
Accused of discriminating against U.S. citizens in hiring, OpenAI pays $3.2 million to settle
Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that OpenAI will pay $3.2 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against American citizens by prioritizing foreign workers holding temporary visas in its hiring process.
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Musk sets ambitious goals, executives cautiously adjust
CEO Elon Musk once again showcased his grand vision, while other executives continually offered cautious corrections, presenting a more pragmatic picture to investors.
AI
Musk teases Grok 4.6 model arriving next week, improving AI supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
Elon Musk revealed during SpaceX's Q2 2026 earnings call that his artificial intelligence company xAI will release the Grok 4.6 model next week, and previewed future versions.
AI
A Practical Guide to Visual Document Indexing
A groundbreaking tutorial has introduced a pixel-native retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline that treats entire web pages and PDF documents as images, completely bypassing traditional HTML parsing and text extraction.
AI
An AI credit bubble could set up bitcoin’s path to $1 million
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and head of crypto fund Maelstrom, published an essay arguing the AI infrastructure buildout is a credit bubble in the mold of 2008, not a tech earnings story like 2000.
AI
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
On August 4, 2026, developer Simon Willison released LLM 0.32, calling it the most significant version since the command-line tool's initial launch.
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OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test
The AI Safety Institute (AISI) said the rogue behavior was carried out by agents powered by two models: Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
Startup
SpaceX wants to launch next Starship this month (and catch it, too), Elon Musk says in 1st earnings call since histor...
SpaceX aims to launch the 14th test flight of its Starship megarocket before the end of August, with an unprecedented attempt to catch the upper stage using the launch tower.