Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News AI-powered security researchers are finding bugs faster than Apple can review them. The company has capped submissions, raised bounties to $2 million, and deployed its own AI to triage the flood.
📰 News Australia's under-16 social media ban has not worked. 81% of teens still use the platforms, 58% daily. The regulator blames tech firms for failing to implement age checks, as New Zealand watches closely.
📰 News Australian booksellers received waves of random bulk orders from a Canadian 'book recycler' called Zoom Books. The company refuses to name its customers. Anthropic says it has never used them but confirmed sourcing books is standard practice across the AI industry.
📰 News The EU's new AI Office enforcement team can fine companies, interview employees, and block market access. It launches amid the worst week for AI safety disclosures in the industry's history.
📰 News US District Judge Donovan Frank said xAI's three-month delay in filing 'suggests that harm is not immediate.' Minnesota's ban — the first US state law targeting creators of nudification apps, not just users — is now in effect. The lawsuit continues, but the law stands.
📰 News Amazon finalized the remaining $35 billion of its OpenAI investment after milestone conditions were met. The company now holds roughly 5% of the ChatGPT maker.
📰 News Jerry Falade's debut crime novel was withdrawn after agents said they could no longer authenticate 'how the manuscript evolved.' The author rejects the suspicion and says racial bias may be a factor.
📰 News EU Article 50 transparency rules take effect August 2. Chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes must be labelled, and AI-generated text needs machine-readable markers. Fines up to €35 million.
📰 News Moonshot trained Kimi K3 on a 20,000-chip Nvidia cluster rented from Alibaba, exposing how compute rental agreements let Chinese AI labs access restricted US hardware.
📰 News OpenAI privately previewed a new model family called Astra to Washington officials, showcasing multi-agent coordination for extended tasks. No benchmarks, no release date, no public demo.
📰 News South Korea's KOSPI surged 18% on July 31 as SK Hynix and Samsung each jumped nearly 30%, reversing a three-day AI chip sell-off. Retail investors and circuit breakers define the new volatility.
📰 News OpenAI's chief scientist, Anthropic's co-founders, and Meta's chief scientist all signed. The letter lands days before the Trump administration's August 1 frontier-model framework deadline.