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Jada Jones / ZDNET: Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching — ZDNET's key takeaways

ABC: An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilso

Claude / @claudeai: Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at 2/1M input tokens and 10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase — We're making Claude Sonnet

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router — Artificial inte

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google — Google co-found

Victoria Song / The Verge: Google unveils the 399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The 399 Goog

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program — OpenAI is le

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back — B

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce

John Higgins / The Verge: Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds — The Thus chip

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe — French cybercrime author

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wan

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Cor

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google introduces Gemma 4 12B, a unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory — While many AI open source

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a 22M pre-Series A — Singapore-bas

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models — At Mistral, we believe every

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervisi

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m

Black Hat on YouTube: At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment — The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenA

Anthropic: Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces — We're making updates to Cla

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration — Top Open

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed in 2025 — SACRAMENTO

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models — At Mistral, we believe every