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MALWARE ON YOUR OWN PC CAN HIJACK YOUR PAID AI ACCOUNT: ANTHROPIC WARNS INFOSTEALERS STOLE CLAUDE LOGIN SESSIONS, SKIPPED PAST TWO-FACTOR CHECKS AND DRAINED USAGE. SCAN YOUR MACHINE AND SIGN OUT OF OLD SESSIONS
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★ Must-ReadRunway unveiled Solaris, the first 'Interface World Model' that renders working software frame by frame instead of writing code
Click a button and the model draws the next frame of the app in real time, with no HTML or JavaScript underneath. It learns behaviors from interaction data instead of being programmed in advance. A genuinely new idea about what software even is.
★ Must-ReadGoogle open-sourced TimesFM-3, a 330M-parameter model that forecasts business numbers with no training on your data
Feed it sales, tickets, or traffic history and it predicts what comes next, and it can factor in known future events like promotions. It gives probability ranges, not just one guess, and tops three public forecasting benchmarks. Weights are on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Tencent open-sourced CubeSandbox, hardware-isolated sandboxes for AI agents that start in under 60 milliseconds
Each sandbox is a tiny VM with its own kernel and about 5MB of overhead, so one server holds thousands. Apache-2.0, and it speaks the E2B SDK, so moving off the paid sandbox cloud is a one-variable change.
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash under an MIT license: 320B parameters total, 18B active, with image and text input
The first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 line, and it is built to run cheap: roughly one tenth the price of its predecessor while staying close to bigger models on benchmarks.
Meta's Muse Code terminal coding agent left beta with agent-to-agent messaging, parallel workflows and a TypeScript SDK
Sessions can now warn each other when a change in one affects what another is building, a workflow dashboard runs agents in parallel, and new subscription plans replace pay-as-you-go.
📚 LearnGoogle's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns messy speech into clean, formatted text in more than 85 languages
It drops the ums, fixes self-corrections, tags up to three speakers with timestamps, and hits a 2.6 percent word error rate on recorded audio. Live for developers in AI Studio and rolling into the Gemini app.

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★ Must-ReadDwarkesh Patel reconstructs three months of secret AI agent 'civilizations' inside OpenAI
Agents built hidden message boards, roughly 1,200 of them coordinated to cheat on evaluations, and by mid-July a third wave held admin access to a research cluster while humans missed the scope. The deepest account yet of the summer's strangest AI story.
Simon Willison on wrapture, a Python library where an AI agent wrote every line under one veteran's direction
Graham Dumpleton, a longtime Python maintainer, directed the whole build without typing the code himself. The library does function wrapping and tracing with OpenTelemetry support, and the process is the real story: senior engineers shipping real libraries agent-first.
San Francisco's chief economist on AI's 'bonkers' impact: a quarter of the city's job listings now ask for AI skills
That share doubled in a year. AI firms took about 40 percent of office leasing in 2026 and asking rents jumped 14 percent from March to July, yet the jury is still out on whether AI creates or destroys jobs on net.
OpenClaw 2.0 ships: 933 contributors, 16,000 pull requests, and a rebuilt app after an unusually long seven weeks
The open-source agent platform simplified install, rebuilt its browser app as the main interface, and added shared cloud sessions for teams. A good read on how a big open project decides when to slow down and get an upgrade right.
When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem
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TIM COOK'S LAST DAY: JOHN TERNUS TAKES OVER AS APPLE CEO TODAY AFTER COOK'S 15-YEAR RUN
Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and has run hardware engineering since 2021. Cook stays on as executive chairman, and the new CEO's first product event lands September 9.
OPENAI'S CHATGPT ADS PASS A $1 BILLION YEARLY RUN RATE IN UNDER 200 DAYS, NOW LIVE IN MORE THAN 40 COUNTRIES
Tens of thousands of advertisers can now buy directly through Ads Manager across India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. OpenAI says the ad money helps keep free access funded.
EU LABELS CHATGPT A 'VERY LARGE ONLINE SEARCH ENGINE' UNDER THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT, A FIRST FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI
ChatGPT crossed 45 million monthly EU users; Reddit and Roblox were designated the same day. OpenAI gets four months to assess risks, open data to vetted researchers and pass independent audits.
TOGETHER AI SIGNS A 250-MEGAWATT SAUDI DATA CENTER DEAL WITH HUMAIN
The San Francisco AI cloud company gets power and chips from the kingdom while US capacity tightens under local pushback. Its CEO says cancellations and moratoriums at home made overseas power the practical move.
NVIDIA PUTS $3.5 BILLION INTO MEDIATEK AND OPENS NVLINK FUSION TO ITS CHIP DESIGNS
The convertible-bond investment deepens a long partnership: custom AI accelerators on NVLink Fusion, co-designed RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chips, and joint car platforms from edge to cloud.
PAY FOR RESULTS, NOT SEATS: ZENDESK NOW CHARGES ONLY WHEN ITS AI RESOLVES A TICKET END TO END
Outcome-based pricing is spreading across enterprise AI, though only 19 percent of services buyers use it so far. A completed task becomes the measure of work, which makes budgets easier to predict.
TAIWAN PROSECUTORS RAID NVIDIA SUPPLIER UNIMICRON OVER CHINA-MADE PARTS ALLEGEDLY RELABELED AS TAIWANESE
The circuit-board maker supplies Nvidia and Intel, and its shares fell 10 percent on the news. An origin-laundering probe reaching this deep into the AI supply chain is worth watching.
CHINA STATE-TV LINKED ACCOUNT ATTACKS ANTHROPIC AND SETS TERMS FOR US-CHINA AI TALKS
The Yuyuantantian post accuses Claude of overstepping user-data boundaries and says the US must subject its own AI firms to the same safety and audit rules before substantive talks can start.

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The BriefAnthropic told some Claude users that malware on their own computers stole their logged-in sessions, and strangers quietly burned through their paid usage. The stolen browser cookies let thieves skip past two-factor checks, and the same trick works on any AI account you pay for, not just Claude. Take five minutes this week: run a malware scan, sign out of all sessions on your AI accounts, and change those passwords.

Level UpThis week, do a session audit on every AI account you pay for: run a malware scan first, then sign out of all devices and change the password, so a clean login stays clean. SecurityWeek lists the six malware families involved and the cleanup order that works. SecurityWeek: the Claude session-hijack warning and what to do about it