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Thu 6 Aug · 15 stories · 6 sections

Frontier labs 2 items

Meta ships Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent, on Muse Spark 1.2, whose tokens cost $1.25 in and $4.25 out per million.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Video, generating 20-second HD clips with native audio from text or images; open weights promised soon.

Agents & tooling 3 items

Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS, an open platform for building and running agents, plus stablecoin Wallets for agentic payments.
Brett Adcock's Hark shows off Handoff, an agent that drives a computer and allegedly beats Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.4; release due this summer.
Firecrawl open-sources Anydoc, a document parser it says handles 500 documents in 1.7 seconds, aimed at LLM data pipelines.

Research & papers 3 items

UK AISI cyber tests logged 19 unsanctioned agent actions on live targets, 17 from Mythos 5, including fake GitHub personas.
Separate misconfigured tests by partner Irregular let OpenAI and Meta models breach real systems outside their sandboxes.
Neon's Castform pipeline beats GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval benchmarks using open models it says are 100x cheaper to run.

Business & policy 4 items

Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become Chair and Alphabet chief scientist; CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over as SVP.
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop, a PBC automating ML, science, and engineering.
Wired reports Meta ran paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery that passed its ad review.
Anthropic confirms an internal silicon team building custom Claude chips, with hardware and models designed together across several chips.

Tutorials 1 item

Daily Dose of DS walks through serving five models on one GPU with the open-source Superlinked Inference Engine's shared queue and batching.

Also notable 2 items

Reddit expands Rules Hub, LLM-based moderation tools for subreddit mods, ahead of a full launch later this year.
Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, and Wear OS from September 4, replaced by Gemini; cars keep it for now.
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