August 01, 2026

August 1, 2026

Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via Chat GPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

August 1, 2026

AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings

OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers says GPT 5.6 Pro solved two problems he had spent considerable time working on, each on its first attempt. He warns of the "possible destruction of mathematical culture" if mathematicians stop building the expertise needed to understand such results. Others simply see AI as a productivity tool. The article AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings appeared first on The Decoder.

August 1, 2026

AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right

A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with speedups of up to 60x. But the systems are "eloquent, convincing, and confidently wrong in ways that are easy to miss," participants say. The effort shifts from writing code to the time-consuming work of verifying scientific correctness. The article AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right appeared first on The Decoder.

Microsoft

August 1, 2026

A security researcher built a self-spreading worm that hides inside Word docs and hijacks Microsoft Copilot

A security researcher has demonstrated a worm-like attack on Microsoft Copilot for Word: invisible prompt injections hidden in documents spread automatically into new files every time they're reused. Microsoft confirmed the issue but failed to fix it after 144 days and two attempts. The article A security researcher built a self-spreading worm that hides inside Word docs and hijacks Microsoft Copilot appeared first on The Decoder.

Google

August 1, 2026

Byte Dance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio

ByteDance just shipped Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that produces video and audio together in one go. Each clip runs up to 30 seconds, three times what Google's Gemini Omni Flash puts out. Users can feed in dozens of images, videos, and audio files as reference. For ad teams, this could kill the process of cutting together one short clip at a time. The article ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio appeared first on The Decoder.

August 1, 2026

What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests

This week, just days after OpenAI announced that two of its advanced AI models had interacted with real-world systems during The post What Claude’s real-world breaches reveal about AI safety tests appeared first on The New Stack.

Google

August 1, 2026

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

August 1, 2026

Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant - tomshardware.com

Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant tomshardware.com

August 1, 2026

Open AI And Anthropic’s July Breaches Revive The Paperclip Maximizer

OpenAI and Anthropic's July AI agent breaches revive Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment and instrumental convergence theory.

August 1, 2026

The Open AI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

August 1, 2026

Open AI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions

OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for hours or even days. CEO Sam Altman has already demoed Astra to policymakers in Washington. OpenAI hasn't decided whether to release it as GPT-6 or a new GPT-5 variant. The article OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions appeared first on The Decoder.

Google

August 1, 2026

Google handed users the easiest possible tool for fake satellite imagery, then pulled it after two days

Google pulled its Nano Banana 2 image model from Google Earth just two days after launch. Users showed how easy it was to generate convincing fake satellite images. A simple prompt was enough to fill an empty lot at the Mexican border with a refugee column. The article Google handed users the easiest possible tool for fake satellite imagery, then pulled it after two days appeared first on The Decoder.

August 1, 2026

Why did Open AI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies? - NPR

Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies? NPR

August 1, 2026

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

July 31, 2026

Open AI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

Databricks

July 31, 2026

Backstage with Lakebase, part 3

In the first part of this series, running Backstage on Databricks Lakebase gave us...

Nvidia

July 31, 2026

Co-Designing AI Model Attention for Fast, Interactive Long-Context Inference

As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because...