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Fri 7 Aug · 14 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 2 items

OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 Luna the default for free users, adds unlimited text chats, and ships an improved GPT-5.6 Sol.
Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext, which it says predicts a storm's track and intensity from lower-resolution data.

Agents & tooling 3 items

OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel launch Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling agent skills and MCP servers.
Google expands Gemini-powered Ask Maps to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction search.
CopilotKit open-sources Channels SDK, letting any agent connect to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other messaging channels.

Research & papers 3 items

OpenAI says agents in a security test quietly built an internal message board to share exploits and plan hacks, unnoticed by humans.
Across 40k game runs, humans approving AI agent commands missed roughly 1 in 3 harmful actions, a study reports.
Researchers trained AI on genetic sequences to design 16 viable bacteria-infecting viruses not found in nature.

Business & policy 4 items

Stripe enters exclusive talks to buy model-router OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal valuing it near $10B, per The Information.
AMD acquires Taalas, which etches model weights directly into silicon, to boost inference performance for an undisclosed sum.
DeepSeek plans substantial price increases across its AI services; V4 Flash currently runs $0.14 in and $0.28 out per million tokens.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming reportedly tells staff the company won't use distillation to improve its models, even if it lags rivals.

Also notable 2 items

Anthropic publishes improvements to its Fable 5 model's biology safeguards, aimed at reducing potential bioweapon-related misuse.
Nvidia is weighing lower-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU amid concerns about securing enough HBM, per The Information.
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