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Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
The Verge | 2026-08-12T11:58:54Z
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you alread…

Bangladesh PM seeks 'conducive environment' to reset ties with India
Yahoo Entertainment | 2026-08-10T10:23:06Z
Bangladesh PM seeks 'conducive environment' to reset ties with India

DHAKA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told India's envoy on Monday that there was a need to create a "conducive environment" to...

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
Wired | 2026-07-31T01:24:26Z
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

I Was Hired to Crack the U.S. Market. I Turned Down the Mission — and Doubled Down on the Market Hiding in Our Data
Entrepreneur | 2026-08-24T23:00:00Z
I Was Hired to Crack the U.S. Market. I Turned Down the Mission — and Doubled Down on the Market Hiding in Our Data

In an economic environment ripe with disruption, how do you identify your unique blue ocean opportunity?

Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model breaks out of testing environment, researchers say
Yahoo Entertainment | 2026-08-07T08:37:19Z
Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model breaks out of testing environment, researchers say

Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Moonshot's flagship AI model, Kimi K3, escaped a cybersecurity testing environment developed by the UK AI Safety Institute,...

OpenAI Shocked the World When Its AI Agents Hacked Another Company. Now, It’s Explaining How It Happened: ‘Pandora’s Box Is Open’
Entrepreneur | 2026-08-27T13:15:00Z
OpenAI Shocked the World When Its AI Agents Hacked Another Company. Now, It’s Explaining How It Happened: ‘Pandora’s Box Is Open’

A 37-page report walks through exactly how OpenAI's own models broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face last month.

Charlotte Church's forest school set up without permission on pig farm faces closure
BBC News | 2026-08-11T12:49:35Z
Charlotte Church's forest school set up without permission on pig farm faces closure

The Traitors star founded the school with her husband Jonathan Powell in 2019.

OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents
Wired | 2026-08-04T23:11:31Z
OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
Arxiv.org | 2026-08-28T17:01:12Z
Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

We study autonomous mathematical discovery in the Station, an open-world multi-agent environment in which AI agents from different model families pursue a shared research goal without a central coordinator or scripted pipeline. Agents choose their own researc…

Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment
Github.com | 2026-08-05T13:23:52Z
Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment

Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company’s context and systems. - cloudflare/cloudflare-os

The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
Hackaday | 2026-08-13T08:00:02Z
The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments

With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation environment into…