AI news on 10 August 2026

• 18:58

  Nvidia teams up with Wall Street asset managers on $500 billion AI infrastructure push

  CNBC Technology+5

  • NVIDIA Mobilizes $500 Billion in Third-Party Capital to Finance AI ComputeUnite.AI
  • BREAKING: NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capitalr/singularity
  • Nvidia gets $500bn from major banks to develop AI data centresBBC Technology
  • Nvidia guarantees its own chips' value to unlock $500 billion in AI infrastructure financingThe Decoder
  • Nvidia Partners With Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500B for AIAI Business
• 13:21

  Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist

  The Decoder▴39+5

  • AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attackHacker News front page
  • Claude is asked to book a gym class; finds vulnerabilities in the gym's systems and cancels a real person's spot to move the user up in line without being askedr/singularity
  • An OpenClaw agent reportedly hacked a gym's booking system and kicked someone off a waiting listEngadget
  • Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gymTechCrunch
  • AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates classBBC Technology
• 10:00

  Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

  OpenAI▴88+5

  • OpenAI Expands Daybreak With Two Tiers and a New Cybersecurity ModelUnite.AI
  • OpenAI expands Daybreak cybersecurity initiative as AI agent threats evolveCNBC Technology
  • OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity modelEngadget
  • OpenAI Expands Daybreak to Tackle Growing AI Security ThreatAI Business
  • OpenAI expands Daybreak cybersecurity research programSiliconANGLE
• 00:00

  Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

  Hugging Face+5

  • Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUsAI News
  • Introducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflowsr/LocalLLaMA
  • Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now availableOllama blog
  • Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents — available nowVentureBeat
  • Meta releases open-weights Muse Glimmer model with 30B parametersSiliconANGLE
• 10:08

  OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT

  The Decoder+3

  • OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlideTechCrunch
  • OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, the AI Presentation StartupUnite.AI
  • Is the NextSlide.ai → OpenAI acquisition real? The lack of any product footprint seems really weirdr/OpenAI
• 22:15

  OpenAI wraps $7 billion share sale ahead of potential IPO

  CNBC Technology+2

  • OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offerTechCrunch
  • OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stockThe Decoder
• 18:01

  OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do

  The Decoder+2

  • OpenAI: "Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT‑5.6‑Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model."r/singularity
  • OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasksVentureBeat
• 09:19

  OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns

  Engadget+2

  • Reuters: OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model --> OpenAI’s Astra released by Aug 31 drops by 50%r/OpenAI
  • Security Concerns Cause OpenAI to Halt Work on Astra ModelAI Business
• 14:00

  OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

  OpenAI▴124+1

  • OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texasr/singularity
• 13:50

  Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction

  The Decoder▴640+1

  • Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open modelsHacker News front page
• 12:40

  Meta to open source its most powerful AI model as it takes swipe at OpenAI, Anthropic

  CNBC Technology+1

  • Zuckerberg manifesto pushes an open-source approach on AI as Meta releases its latest modelTechXplore
• 11:00

  Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

  Ars Technica+1

  • Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?r/singularity
• 10:34

  Agentic By Design: How AI Can Make, Or Break, Customer Experience

  Unite.AI+1

  • Agentic By Design: How AI Can Make, Or Break, Customer ExperienceUnite.AI
• 05:00

  Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

  BBC Technology▴149+1

  • Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a weekHacker News
• 00:00

  Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business

  OpenAI+1

  • Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Businessr/OpenAI
• 23:56

  As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

  TechCrunch
• 22:13

  With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

  Ars Technica
• 21:25

  Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you

  The Register
• 21:00

  AI model captures how humans read, paving the way to personalized text and better augmented reality

  TechXplore
• 20:53

  Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI

  TechCrunch
• 20:00

  Neuromorphic AI training technique could help usher in the era of low-power AI

  TechXplore
• 20:00

  AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push

  VentureBeat
• 20:00

  AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

  MIT Tech Reviewlimited
• 19:56

  Cyber resilience takes center stage as AI reshapes the CISO role

  SiliconANGLE
• 19:00

  Introducing Claude Sonnet 5

  Anthropic
• 18:40

  Computer vision team develops an efficient method for scaling pretrained AI models

  TechXplore
• 18:31

  Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code

  VentureBeat
• 18:20

  Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale

  The Decoder
• 18:20

  AI-powered system can predict how modern house fires behave

  TechXplore
• 17:49

  CrowdStrike, Palo Alto hit records after Black Hat cyber conference illuminates rising AI threat

  CNBC Technology
• 17:40

  Why do we labor when reading some words but not others? AI offers a partial answer

  TechXplore
• 17:40

  Chinese AI drives price competition among U.S. labs

  TechXplore
• 17:20

  Peering inside LLM-based multi-agent systems could expose stealthy attacks

  TechXplore
• 17:11

  Graph neural networks are turning hidden fraud into visible networks

  SiliconANGLE
• 17:00

  'You're a 4 out of 10': The troubling rise of AI appearance ratings

  TechXplore
• 17:00

  What building an AI-native finance function taught me

  OpenAI
• 16:44

  Global AI Closes First Debt Raise to Expand Sovereign AI Data Centers

  Unite.AI
• 16:32

  Dyna Robotics Trains DYNA-2 on a Million Hours of Human Video, No Robot Data

  Unite.AI
• 16:25

  Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS

  Hugging Face
• 16:20

  Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision

  TechCrunch