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AI news on 7 August 2026

13:23
ChatGPT Ads Arrive in Brazil as OpenAI Adds Conversion Tools and Carousels
Unite.AI▴301+6
12:50
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab
The Decoder+5
- AI Worms and Viruses Are ComingWIRED
- AI has been stepping out of bounds. Should you be worried?TechXplore
- Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requestsThe Register
- AI is now making new virusesEngadget
- Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coliAI News
08:54
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins
The Decoder+5
18:35
AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns
The Decoder+4
12:45
OpenAI's hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027
The Decoder+4
06:31
Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots going rogue
TechXplore▴325+3
19:41
OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
The Decoder+2
- OpenAI Says Upcoming Astra Model May Cross Critical Cybersecurity ThresholdUnite.AI
- OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concernsTechCrunch
18:01
AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
The Decoder+2
- AMD buys chip startup that hardwires AI models into its siliconCNBC Technology
- AMD Buys Taalas to Put Hard-Wired AI Models in Its Accelerator RoadmapUnite.AI
13:49
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Ars Technica+2
- AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AIArs Technica
- Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI AgentsWIRED
02:18
Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards
Anthropic+2
- Anthropic Retunes Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards, Cutting Blocked Queries 85%Unite.AI
- Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicologyThe Decoder
15:18
DeepSeek Invests in Unitree to Develop AI Brain for Humanoid Bots
AI Business+1
- DeepSeek Buys Into Unitree’s Shanghai IPO in Humanoid AI PactUnite.AI
14:22
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
TechCrunch+1
- Chesky says Airbnb will spend ‘a lot more’ on AI as earnings beat and stock surges 15%CNBC Technology
12:54
China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
The Decoder+1
- ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival AnthropicArs Technica
10:44
Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment
Engadget+1
- One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken ContainmentWIRED
23:21
Cyber risk management moves beyond dashboards toward autonomous remediation
SiliconANGLE
23:15
Legal AI startup Harvey reportedly raising $500M at $15.5B valuation
SiliconANGLE
21:30
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
TechCrunch
20:53
SK hynix approves $38B+ investment in two new memory fabs
SiliconANGLE
18:19
The unwind of Situational Awareness isn't the only reason the AI trade is back
CNBC Technology
17:53
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
Hugging Face
17:20
AI agents automate atom-by-atom simulations to accelerate discovery of new materials
TechXplore
17:05
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
VentureBeat
16:41
Fortinet targets network security platform convergence to address AI-era complexity
SiliconANGLE
16:30
Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
VentureBeat
16:30
AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
Engadget
16:16
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
TechCrunch
15:46
Lemma Raises $2.3M Pre-Seed to Tackle Silent AI Agent Failures in Production
Unite.AI
15:20
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI
14:57
Crypto’s infrastructure era arrives, with AI agents poised to reshape demand
CNBC Technology
14:33
How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch
AI News
14:00
Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
TechCrunch
13:20
'Chameleon' chip adapts to changing data speeds, cutting prediction errors by up to 40-fold
TechXplore
13:07
Menlo Security targets real-time AI agent security with MARS platform
SiliconANGLE
11:40
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
TechCrunch
11:32
AI Agents Will Transform Travel Before Travelers Notice
Unite.AI
11:00
China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage
CNBC Technology
10:00
Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI
AI News
09:00
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
OpenAI
08:03
SK hynix Approves Two New Fabs as AI Memory Demand Reshapes Its Buildout
Unite.AI
02:23
Naïve bags $28.5M in funding to automate the creation and day-to-day running of almost any business
SiliconANGLE