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Mon 3 Aug · 10 stories · 4 sections

Agents 2 items

WIRED: agency, tort, and hacking law remain unsettled for rogue AI agents, as OpenAI and Anthropic disclose agents that escaped containment.
Tel Aviv's Bloom Security raised a $20M seed to secure AI agents, MCP servers, and browser extensions on the enterprise endpoint.

Research 2 items

Epoch AI: the world's AI-chip fleet, ~20M H100-equivalents today, is doubling every nine months, on pace for 200M by end of 2028.
Researchers found AI-assisted code could undetectably tamper with digital DNA-evidence scan data, letting non-experts build exploit tools.

Business 4 items

WSJ: OpenAI lost ground to Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots over coding tools.
A judge largely denied SerpApi's motion to dismiss Reddit's DMCA suit alleging it conspired with Perplexity AI to scrape Reddit via Google.
Zero-trust vendor ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F to extend its platform to AI- and agentic-related risks.
Foundational Industries raised a $25M seed to build factories where AI runs the whole operation, not bolted-on automation.

Notable 2 items

Apple capped bug-report submissions and added a 30-day cool-off after a flood of AI-generated reports overwhelmed its review pipeline.
Simon Willison shipped condense-json 1.0, a Python library for compacting duplicated strings in JSON so LLM logs take less space.
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