August 8, 2026
Open AI acquires presentation startup Next Slide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
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August 8, 2026
Open AI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns - The Guardian
OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns The Guardian
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August 8, 2026
Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands, while human reviewers caught only 13.6 percent. For the most widely used AI coding tool, this means developers are shifting further from writing code to monitoring AI output. The article Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 8, 2026
Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Here’s why it matters for developers.
OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub and Microsoft have backed Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a portable package format for reusable components that extends The post Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Here’s why it matters for developers. appeared first on The New Stack.
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August 8, 2026
Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals
Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each other's status. The article Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 8, 2026
Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for Open AI
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety. In a recent paper, he analyzes scenarios where AI could contribute to human extinction and calls for far more investment in safety research. The article Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 8, 2026
How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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August 8, 2026
AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's roughly 600 times more than a typical AI chat. His data shows how much the low figures reported by Google and OpenAI distort the reality of agent-based AI. The article AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 8, 2026
X AI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind Open AI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. New editing tools like Magic Wand and Multi-Ref Editing, along with preconfigured templates, target practical creative workflows. The article xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 8, 2026
Open AI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework. Parts of Astra's development have been paused. The move follows recently disclosed incidents in which autonomous AI agents infiltrated OpenAI's own infrastructure undetected for weeks. The article OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time appeared first on The Decoder.
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August 7, 2026
Open AI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
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Tencent Cloud Open-Sources Tencent DB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets — Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki and Code-Graph. It is MIT-licensed, self-hosted via Docker, and integrates with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes and CodeBuddy. The differentiator is not retrieval but governance: ACL-based visibility decides which agent gets which asset, and which version is valid. The post Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code — because humans can’t be trusted
In the early days of Claude Code, it felt like you either had to approve everything the coding agent did The post Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code — because humans can’t be trusted appeared first on The New Stack.
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