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Simon Willison analyzes the timeline of OpenAI's accidental attack on Hugging Face, suggesting that RLVR training of a new model explains the lack of safety behaviors and lax monitoring.

Firebird launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell infrastructure, with plans to deploy over 70,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 MW of capacity by 2027. NVIDIA also intends to invest in Firebird as part of a broader 2-gigawatt roadmap across Armenia, Kazakhstan, and other markets.

A detailed timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face, based on a Black Hat presentation, showing how OpenAI's AI agents inadvertently compromised Hugging Face infrastructure through a series of exploits.

Simon Willison tests GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra via Codex Desktop by asking it to recreate a 'Raccoon Heist' game from a four-year-old prompt, resulting in a much better game than Claude Fable 5's version, though it had a bug with oversized eyeballs.

Ai2 introduces TutorMoments, a replay-based evaluation framework and dataset for measuring whether LLMs can balance when to help and when to hold back in one-on-one math tutoring. Preliminary results show models tend to over-help, and prompt engineering only partially closes the gap to human tutors.

Companies are scrambling to reduce AI token spending as costs mount, with Accenture revealing that non-engineers and PDF-to-markdown conversions are major token consumers.

OpenAI announces that internal evaluations of its upcoming model Astra indicate it may reach critical cyber capabilities under its Preparedness Framework, prompting strengthened security controls and a pause on certain internal activities.

A customer story about how HSP GRUPPE integrates ChatGPT Enterprise into tax advisory, legal research, and client communication, treating AI as an organizational transformation with governance and shared agents.

Vercel announces Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into distributable plugins, giving AI agents a common format for discovery and loading.

据金融时报报道，字节跳动正在训练一个估算参数量达10万亿级别的AI大模型，规模接近Anthropic的先进系统，旨在缩小与美国顶级AI实验室的差距。

An introduction to bb, an open-source, MIT-licensed agentic IDE that functions as an agent orchestrator and can be extended by users to build custom features, including task management, code review, and more.

A systematic study from Meta FAIR, Reality Labs, and Oxford on multimodal pretraining, revealing asymmetric knowledge flow between modalities, synergy vs. competition dynamics, the benefits of early unification, and efficient training recipes validated with 13.5B MoE models.

An analysis of the open-weights AI debate: proponents argue it democratizes AI, while critics cite misuse risks; major tech companies signed a letter supporting open weights, while Anthropic and parts of the Trump administration remain cautious.

DeepSeek announced a significant API price hike, and analysis suggests the move goes beyond GPU cost pass-through to reflect broader market shifts toward value-based pricing and open-source ecosystem pressures.

AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas, which specializes in hardwiring AI models onto custom silicon for efficient inference. The deal aims to strengthen AMD's AI portfolio with differentiated inference performance and efficiency.

Datasette 1.0a38 fixes a SQL injection vulnerability affecting instances that serve mixed public and private tables, with the fix also backported to Datasette 0.65.3.

Datasette 0.65.3 is a new release of the open-source data exploration tool, with updates and fixes.

Simon Willison shares a link to his interview with Cynthia Dunlop about technical blogging, and repeats his top tip: lower your standards and publish while still unhappy with your writing.

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model achieves state-of-the-art cyclone forecasting accuracy, providing an extra day of warning, and is now open-sourced.

GeForce NOW adds 26 new games in August, including World of Warships: Legends, alongside QuakeCon demos and new titles across Steam, Epic, and Xbox.