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National cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s plan for new AI datacentre development. Queensland and the Northern Territory have won a carve-out so that theirs can be powered by coal and gas – rather than renewables. Meanwhile, the fight between the West Australian premier Roger Cook and the Productivity Commission over his state’s generous GST deal persists. And federally, migration arrival numbers continue to spur debate across the political parties. To discuss this week’s mix of politics and policy, political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to the CEO of the Grattan Institute, Dr Aruna Sathanapally, and economics editor Patrick Commins Read more: Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy In this hour of need, contemplating a cut to Australia’s refugee intake is cruel populism | Ben Doherty Continue reading...

The Justice Department is preparing to activate a long-dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes, according to three people familiar with the plans. Reviving prize cou…

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Hi HN! I wanted to share with you a chess analysis tool that I was building for the past week. First of all I want to explain what is the problem that I'm trying to solve: Chess Engines such as stockfish are superior fo…

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Anthropic PBC today previewed a standard that makes it easier for artificial intelligence agents to control machines such as microscopes. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is the fruit of a collaboration between the Claude developer and medical research institute HHMI. Anthropic has so far only made the technology accessible to a limited number of […] The post Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI agents that operate machines appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 Terminal-Bench-Science evaluates AI agents on workflows from researchers' own work. Scientists, not model developers or data vendors, set the bar for scientific capability in AI. Terminal-Benc…

Many industries rely on relational databases that are queried with SQL. Most SQL is machine-written, but humans alone likely write billions of custom SQL queries each monthBased on our internal estimates and publicly av…

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent harness with Amazon Quick and fal, connected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using two hands-on workflows: an eight-panel storyboard and a music-video concept prototype.

<p><strong><a href="https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/">Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode</a></strong></p> Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/">made that the default</a> and have made bold claims about its effectiveness.</p> <p>Johann Rehberger is one of the most credible prompt injection researchers active today. He found an attack against auto mode which he claims works 80% of the time, by tricking Claude Code into downloading and uncompressing a zip archive, then executing code that imports <code>base64</code> without noticing that this will import and execute a local <code>struct.py</code> file extracted from the archive.</p> <p>In a few cases auto mode directly prevented the agent from preventing harmful code from continuing to execute!</p> <blockquote> <p>In a few runs Claude tried to terminate the malware process once it noticed the compromise, but Auto Mode denied the cleanup command.</p> <p>Claude detects the compromise, but <strong>Auto Mode blocks its cleanup command</strong></p> <p>The safety mechanism itself can become part of the failure. The classifier allowed the creation of the malware process, but then it blocked the command intended to stop it!</p> </blockquote> <p>I agree with Johann's conclusion here: the only safe way to run agents if there's any risk of attracting the attention of an adversarial attack is with a sandbox:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Run unattended coding agents in a container, VM or OS sandbox.</li> <li>Restrict network egress.</li> <li>Monitor your agents.</li> <li>Do not expose home directories, SSH keys, cloud credentials,… to the agent runtime. [...]</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sandboxing">sandboxing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection">prompt-injection</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/anthropic">anthropic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude">claude</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/johann-rehberger">johann-rehberger</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-code">claude-code</a></p>

Coding agents craft arbitrary code so securing them is more complicated than red-teaming. We post trained a cyber-security small llm, changed how it reasons and supplemented our controls using program analysis technique…

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding. The company told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the round is being co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark. It’s set to value Instinct at $2.5 billion. The startup previously raised $100 million […] The post Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct reportedly raising $250M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new “Persistent mode” setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product’s code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex comma…

Hi HN! I wanted to share with you a chess analysis tool that I was building for the past week. First of all I want to explain what is the problem that I'm trying to solve: Chess Engines such as stockfish are superior fo…

Enterprise AI capabilities are improving almost everywhere, yet the returns still trail the spending. The technology is reaching production, but it often stops short of the business process where revenue, innovation and risk actually live — a gap that is now reshaping how enterprises measure AI success. That gap is widest in industries where a […] The post The enterprise AI payoff shifts beyond models to mission-critical workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

It can DJ. It can order food. It can book you a table at a restaurant. And of course, it can access your Instagram. These are some things Meta says its coming AI agent can do, according to an internal memo seen by Busin…

Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown with HTML tables, bounding boxes and image descriptions. It runs at $1.50 per 1,000 pages through the API, or on dedicated Model Vault instances from $2,500 a month. Cohere reports a ParseBench score of 79.2, ahead of Mistral OCR 4, Azure Document Intelligence and Databricks AI Parse — but that figure averages three of the benchmark's five dimensions and drops charts and visual grounding entirely. The post Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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The product is the crane A long-horizon harness you run. Not a plugin pack inside someone else’s. Most things branded “harness engineering” are skills, agents, and slash commands that sit inside Claude Code or Copilot.…

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.

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AI agents are everywhere right now. You hear terms like tool calling, agent loops, MCP, guardrails thrown around as if its common language… it isn’t! But that is about to change. Agentic AI isn’t nearly as complicated as it sounds once you understand the few core ideas that actually matter. Here are 10 agentic AI concepts […] The post 10 Essential Agentic AI Concepts Explained Simply appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Runable Inc., a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses build, run and grow, announced Wednesday that it raised $21 million in early-stage funding to scale its operations and reach more enterprise outfits. Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners co-led the Series A funding round, alongside continued support from existing investors Together Fund […] The post Runable raises $21M to realize small businesses’ growth vision using AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Wagtail’s just-released 8.0 release notes are very unusual. Zero admin UI improvements in the highlights, even though UX is one of Wagtail’s biggest strengths. We made a strategic choice to focus on a shiny new API inst…

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Low-skill hacktivists are now 'enabled with the same tooling and sophistication as a state-sponsored group,' according to cybersecurity consultant Unit 42.

AI coding company Replit is throwing its weight behind the model-routing trend by making its “intelligent model routing” system the The post Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task appeared first on The New Stack.

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting "red lines," or unacceptable military use cases of its AI technology. "The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Rita F. Lin, a district judge in the northern district of California, wrote in the ruling … Read the full story at The Verge.

Alphabet’s stock is down more than 15% from its May peak, wiping out roughly $700 billion in value, as concerns rise over its mounting AI bills and failure to produce a decisive technological breakthrough. After leading…

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new episodes from 1 September. In the meantime, we are bringing you season one of Black Box, before the launch of season two in early September. This episode was first broadcast on 18 March 2024. In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tipoff, but not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all. Continue reading...

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In brief Core Lightning confirmed that several AI-generated security reports identified real flaws. The project told operators to verify and install its forthcoming update promptly. Operators who cannot upgrade should u…

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Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports have been hit by a cyber-attack in which hackers accessed the data of about 8.7 million customers. The incident involved data related to “car park, lounge and fast-…

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AI Weeds Out Job Applicants With Disabilities, Lawsuit Claims by Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun/TNS | August 25, 2026 Facebook Twitter Google+ --> LinkedIn Pinterest --> Email BALTIMORE — A lawsuit claiming that Workd…

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Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes Dr Henry Bradford I share Kasra Rafi and Bruce Schneier’s impression that recent mathematical breakthroughs by AI consist in clever recombination of existing ideas, not development of truly novel theory (No, AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet, 25 August). The question is: what happens to mathematics if this changes? Like many mathematicians, I have done much soul-searching in recent weeks, especially since a key problem in my own field of group theory (the existence of non-sofic groups) was solved this month by OpenAI’s Astra model. Astra’s proof consists largely in a slight twist on theorems by my colleagues Gabor Kun and Andreas Thom. That said, even a few months ago I would have found the idea that AI was capable of such a breakthrough incredible, so it seems foolhardy now to bet against AIs achieving superhuman capabilities in all areas of mathematical thought in the coming years. Continue reading...

All posts Oracle vs PostgresAug 27, 202611 min read BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updated I co-owned the Zonemaps module at Oracle, and BRIN is the same design in Postgres. It stops pruning…

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Anthropic pushes into physical world with new standard to help AI agents operate machines Skip Navigation Anthropic announced the Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, a new interface that will make it simpler for AI agents…

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Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Rumors that an acquisition was in the cards first leaked on Monday. Business Insider broke the news that Hugging Face had received interest from multiple prospective buyers. On late Wednesday, The Information reported that Nvidia […] The post Nvidia reportedly acquires AI project hosting platform Hugging Face for $12.9B appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Sopro V2 Turbo Today we are presenting a new family of TTS models called Sopro V2, and open-sourcing our fastest one: sopro-v2-turbo. Sopro V2 Turbo is a 120M-parameter voice-cloning text-to-speech model that streams, r…

Artificial intelligence is changing what storage and data management platforms look like. In collaboration with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Solidigm, DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DDN Enterprise AI HyperPOD, built on Nvidia Corp.’s AI Data Platform. The goal is to simplify the storage, scaling and deployment of AI inference for enterprise workloads. “Customers are […] The post The AI storage stack gets an inference-era rethink appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Hitika Aug 17, 2026 The more I worked with AI systems, the more I noticed a familiar pattern in my own learning: exposure, feedback, mistakes, adjustment, and repetition. Over the past month, I have been interning at a…

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Using domestic chips shows that Chinese vendors are becoming more self-reliant and improving inference performance on AI chips.

Research August 27, 2026 For long-horizon agents, model capability alone does not determine system capability. Infrastructure orchestration multiplies what models can do. INT21’s SwarmOS tested this hypothesis on the AR…

AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice…

Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it, and no two vendors quote the same units. This comparison measures burst cold start across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel, normalizes per-second rates to cost per 1,000 executions, and maps filesystem persistence, idle billing, and egress policy against primary sources verified August 27, 2026. The post Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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You could have a mechanical duck waddling through your home before Christmas. Hugging Face‘s Pollen Robotics on Thursday opened pre-orders The post This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks appeared first on The New Stack.

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus on what artificial general intelligence means, let alone how we'll know when we've actually got there, which makes achieving it equally arbitrary. Asked about OpenAI's pursuit of AGI, Huang said that when it comes to Nvidia, "for many tasks, we could say that we've already achieved AGI." … Read the full story at The Verge.

Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageMaker AI with two capabilities that land billing, usage, and per-GPU metrics directly in your own Amazon CloudWatch account.

Serving automatic speech recognition (ASR) models at scale is costly when each request uses only a fraction of a GPU. Learn how NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon EC2 GPU instances cuts GPU infrastructure by 75% while holding sub-second latency at 92.1 requests per second per GPU.

XPress: Parallel Refinement for Diffusion Drafters in Speculative Decoding August 2, 2026 12 minutes Case study. A real GSM8K prompt decoded three ways under the same timing setup: autoregressive, the dFlash drafter alo…

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The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'

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Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents. During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan's Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott's management-focus … Read the full story at The Verge.

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

&larr; Back to Blog A recent study of students using AI in China found that they completed homework faster and scored higher on it, while their later exam performance fell. My hypothesis is that the 30% drop in time spe…

Grocers and greengrocers | Serbelloni group AI warning | Walking over cars | Christmas catalogues | Appropriate names Living with nostalgia as I am, I enjoyed solving the Wordsearch in Monday’s paper featuring old occupations. However, the man described as a “grocer” in your feature (A new start after 60, 24 August) is surely a greengrocer. Could that word have been included in the Wordsearch as an “old occupation”, or just an old word? David Jones Spalding, Lincolnshire • I daresay not many people knew about the Serbelloni group’s findings (Letters, 25 August). However, millions watched the machines crushing humanity in The Terminator a dozen years later, in 1984. We can’t say that we weren’t warned. Cassy Firth Morley, West Yorkshire Continue reading...

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