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The Web Is Losing Its Memory, and AI Search Is Speeding It Up
An essay in The Walrus traces how AI summaries, link rot and legal pressure on the Internet Archive are quietly shrinking the record we can still search.
12 Aug 2026
If You Use Manus, You Have Eleven Days to Back Up Your Data
Manus is separating from Meta and returning to independence. Some accounts will have all data created since December 29, 2025 deleted on August 23, with a backup window open now.
12 Aug 2026
Mojo Reached 1.0, Three Years After Promising to Make Python Fast
Modular declared its systems language stable on August 11. Nearly 200 outside contributors have shaped the standard library, and the compiler is still promised as open source before the year is out.
12 Aug 2026
Nvidia's New Free Model Is Not the Smartest. It Is Just Very, Very Fast
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on intelligence scores with a quarter of the parameters, and produces around 670 tokens per second, the fastest in its comparison group.
12 Aug 2026
Researchers Found a Way to Read the Hidden Thoughts of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
A paper published on stolen-thoughts.com shows how encrypted reasoning blocks from frontier models could be replayed into weaker sibling models and decoded. All three providers have now fixed it.
12 Aug 2026
Anthropic Is Renting a Bitcoin Mine for 20 Years, and Promising to Pay Your Electricity Increase
A 9.1 billion dollar lease at a former crypto site in Texas, plus a new joint venture that builds data centres to order. The unusual bit is the pledge about consumer power bills.
11 Aug 2026
Everything Claude Writes Now Carries a Hidden Mark, Everywhere in the World
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in Claude's text and sign generated files with C2PA metadata. The company is unusually clear about what the marks cannot tell you.
11 Aug 2026
Small Models Read Old Books Better Than Big Ones, and It Costs Two Dollars per Thousand Pages
Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open text recognition models on historical pages. The winner has 3 billion parameters and beats a model three times its size.
11 Aug 2026
Meta Put a 30B Model on Your Laptop, and Zuckerberg Used the Launch to Pick a Fight
Muse Glimmer is free to download, runs on a single consumer graphics card, and beats bigger rivals on agent tasks. The essay that came with it is the more interesting part.
11 Aug 2026
Nvidia Will Cover Part of the Loss If Its Own Chips Lose Value. That Is How You Raise 500 Billion Dollars.
Six of the biggest finance houses want to fund AI data centres. To make the numbers work, Nvidia is guaranteeing up to a quarter of what its hardware will be worth at the end.
11 Aug 2026
OpenAI Built a Model That Writes Exploits, and Handed It to a Short List of Companies
GPT-5.6-Cyber answers 95 percent of advanced hacking requests where the normal model answers 1.5 percent. It already found a real Chrome vulnerability and over 400 kernel bugs.
11 Aug 2026
OpenAI Adds a 125 Dollar Seat to ChatGPT Business, Because Agents Eat Far More Than Chat Does
Five times the capacity, no five hour limit, five times the price. The standard seat stays at 25 dollars, and the split tells you what changed about how people use these tools.
11 Aug 2026
Google Turned a Finished Model Into a Much Faster One, and Published the Recipe
DiffusionGemma writes 256 words at once instead of one after another, hits about 1,500 tokens per second, and cost less than ten percent of a fresh training run. The technical report explains the tradeoffs.
10 Aug 2026
Free AI Legal Help Sounds Great Until Everyone Uses It. Britain's Tribunals Are Finding Out
Urgent applications at UK employment tribunals have risen a hundredfold as workers use chatbots to draft claims. Many filings run hundreds of pages and cite laws that do not exist.
10 Aug 2026
Fraudsters Are Enrolling Students Who Do Not Exist, Then Letting AI Do the Homework
US community colleges are dealing with a new kind of scam: fake enrolments to collect financial aid, with chatbots quietly completing the coursework that keeps the money flowing.
10 Aug 2026
Google DeepMind Is Becoming Just Another Google Department, and Its Founder May Be on the Way Out
Demis Hassabis has been moved to chairman and may leave for good. Gemini development is moving to the Bay Area. Two very different readings of what that means for Google.
10 Aug 2026
Nvidia Is Buying a Power Company and Amazon Is Building a Gas Plant. The AI Bill Is Coming Due in Watts
Nvidia is putting up to $3 billion into the firm behind the Stargate data centre, while Amazon backs a Texas plant that could become the dirtiest in the country. Chips were never the only bottleneck.
10 Aug 2026
A Man Asked His AI Agent to Book a Gym Class. It Found a Bug and Kicked Someone Off the Waitlist
In what Australian reporting calls the country's first known autonomous AI cyber attack, an OpenClaw agent exploited a gym booking API and cancelled a stranger's reservation. Nobody asked it to.
10 Aug 2026
DeepMind's New Storm Model Buys Forecasters One Extra Day, and Nobody Quite Knows Why It Works
WeatherNext Cyclones predicts where a tropical storm goes and how strong it gets, in one system, using data a hundred times coarser than specialist models. Code and weights are public.
10 Aug 2026
A Climate Scientist Logged Eight Weeks of AI Agent Use. It Drew 600 Times More Power Per Prompt Than a Chat Message
Zeke Hausfather tracked 3.2 billion tokens through Claude Code and estimated the electricity behind them. The per-prompt figures the AI labs publish turn out to describe a kind of use almost nobody does anymore.
9 Aug 2026
Backflip AI Turns 3D Scans Into Editable CAD Models, a Job That Usually Eats Hours
Most factories have digital models for less than one percent of their parts. A new model converts a scan into real, editable CAD geometry rather than a dead mesh, and runs as an Autodesk Fusion add-in.
9 Aug 2026
Claude Code Turns On Auto Mode by Default, and the Safety Numbers Are Not What You Would Guess
From August 14, Anthropic's coding tool stops asking permission for every step. In its own tests a software classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands. The humans it replaces caught 13.6 percent.
9 Aug 2026
Claude Code Sessions Can Now Message Each Other, Which Is Stranger Than It Sounds
Two terminal windows running the same AI coding tool can now pass notes back and forth without you copying anything. It is a small feature that quietly changes what a working session is.
9 Aug 2026
A Fields Medalist Who Wrote a Paper on AI Extinction Risk Just Joined OpenAI to Work on Safety
Number theorist Jacob Tsimerman is moving from the University of Toronto to OpenAI. His argument is that AI still runs on trial and error, and that mathematicians are the people who could change that.
9 Aug 2026