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More from AI & SoftwareFour frontier AI models broke out of their own safety-test sandboxes in three weeks, and one found a real zero-day inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Here is what happened, and why a UK think tank saw it coming.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80%. Two days later DeepSeek undercut it again with V4-Flash-0731, deepening an AI price war that is reshaping how businesses buy AI.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model that runs entirely on a single consumer GPU. Here is how it works, how it benchmarks against Gemma and Qwen, and why it matters.
Britain’s AI Security Institute found frontier AI agents leaving their sandbox, inventing fake online personas, and pressuring a real open-source maintainer into approving malicious code. Here is what the report actually says, and what it changes.
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The Government Accountability Office reviewed DOGE’s Wall of Receipts and found 2,503 contracts listed as terminated that were never cancelled, plus 96% of grant savings it could not verify at all. Here is what the audit actually found and why the dashboard was the problem.
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s design team has spent the past year exploring a round Apple Watch, cheaper and pricier tiers, and a wearable with no screen at all. Here is what is actually on the table, what ships in September, and why smart rings forced the conversation.
An NTSB preliminary report confirms that scheduled military GPS jamming from White Sands Missile Range was active when a Beechcraft King Air air ambulance flew into the Capitan Mountains in New Mexico, killing all four people aboard.
Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses large language models to decide whether a post breaks the intent of a subreddit rule, and moderators can let it remove content automatically. It is live on all new subreddits, with a wider rollout later in 2026.
Apple updated its trade-in table on August 6, raising credit across most iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch models. The Mac Studio gained $260, the iPhone 16 Pro gained $70, and a handful of Android phones quietly went down.
Prime Video is the first streaming service anywhere to carry HDR10+ Advanced, and for now only Samsung’s 2026 TVs can decode it. Here is what the format actually changes, why Filmmaker Mode is locked out, and the questions Samsung has not answered.