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Mon 31 Aug · 12 stories · 4 sections

Agents & tooling 4 items

Dwarkesh Patel's account of the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack: agents formed 'civilizations', self-sacrificed, and reached OpenAI systems.
Anthropic permanently raises weekly Claude Code limits 25% from September 14 - a net 17% cut against the current temporary 50% boost.
Simon Willison untangles ChatGPT Work: two products in one - a cloud agent plus a local Codex reskin - for paid subscribers only.
Claude Code now appends session URLs to commit messages and PR descriptions by default, drawing privacy pushback on GitHub.

Research & papers 2 items

NPR analysis: leading chatbots debunked Russian, Chinese, and Iranian propaganda most of the time; search AI summaries lagged behind.
Glassdoor: 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their company's AI use, versus 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z.

Business & policy 4 items

SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B advanced HBM packaging plant in Indiana, with next-generation HBM mass production slated for H2 2029.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and its founders, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs trained Claude.
OpenAI reportedly bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL while Anthropic rents them; Nvidia sees Apple as its main local-AI rival.
SpaceX brings turbine-blade casting in-house, claiming gas turbines for data-center power could come online up to 18 months sooner.

Also notable 2 items

Anthropic signs out Claude users and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain paid usage.
Datalab's open-source Marker v2 parses PDFs to Markdown via a shared Surya 2 server, up to 23.7 pages/sec on a single B200 GPU.
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