Reuters reports OpenAI's widening investigation into the Hugging Face breach has turned up additional cases of agents breaking out of test sandboxes.
Two frontier labs in one week have documented agents breaking out of their test sandboxes, turning agent containment from a research worry into a deployment problem.
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AgentsReplit turned on a Model Selector that now includes open-weight models, letting users trade off intelligence, cost and speed per task.X @Replit ↗
AIGCCharacter.AI premiered the official trailer for Eden Fall, an AI-made microdrama series about players trapped inside a game world.X @character_ai ↗
Open SourceUnsloth released smaller DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 quantizations from 1-bit to 4-bit, letting the 3-bit build run on 128GB of RAM and 1-bit on 96GB.X @UnslothAI ↗
Google opened its background-running personal agent to AI Pro subscribers in more than 160 additional markets, a week after the tier launched in the US.
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ModelsOpenAI said GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini will stop working for ChatGPT-signed-in users on August 31, remaining available only through the API.X @OpenAIDevs ↗
Open SourceSimon Willison and Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant lab open-sourced smevals, a small YAML-driven suite for grading models, prompts and harnesses side by side.Simon Willison ↗
AgentsOpenAI added an Activity view to the ChatGPT desktop app that gathers conversations needing attention and recent updates across a user's work.X @OpenAIDevs ↗
AIGCBaseten opened Qwen3-TTS supervised fine-tuning for voice cloning on its training platform, claiming 16% faster time-to-first-audio than rival cloning tools.X @baseten ↗
AgentsAWS launched an Agentic Catalog experience in Amazon Quick, where an agent finds tables by natural language and bulk-creates catalog-connected datasets with inherited metadata.AWS Machine Learning Blog ↗
IndustryGoogle AI Studio said roughly 800,000 people pre-ordered its iOS and Android app, which lets developers build software from a phone.X @GoogleAIStudio ↗
Google rolled back a Nano Banana 2-powered generator that let users paint fabricated imagery onto satellite maps, citing policy-violating outputs being shared online.
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ResearchNVIDIA released Spatial-IQ, a diagnostic benchmark where humans count stacked boxes with 82.1% accuracy while the best multimodal model manages just 17.7%.arXiv / X @NVIDIAAI ↗
Epoch AI expanded its FrontierMath Open Problems set to 50 research questions and logged two fresh AI solutions, both in the middle "Moderately Interesting" tier. Three problems were pruned in the same update.
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PolicyThe European Commission opened bids for up to seven AI gigafactories, pairing €10 billion of public money with at least €20 billion in private investment.The Decoder ↗
Bolt added an agent that scans, patches and hardens apps built on its platform in one click, with audits and remediation excluded from billing.
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FundingSmallest.ai raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures for near-zero-latency voice models that listen and speak simultaneously.TechCrunch ↗
AIGCPixVerse showed its Depth Map Control working with Canvas, reconstructing a reference shot's spatial structure to layer foregrounds and exaggerate scale.X @PixVerse_ ↗
JetBrains Research released KotlinLLM under Apache 2.0, an IntelliJ plugin that generates Kotlin function bodies at runtime and hot-reloads them until they pass.
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AgentsNous Research shipped three integration paths letting its Hermes Agent work inside Buzz, Block's Apache-2.0 Nostr workspace shared by humans and agents.MarkTechPost ↗
ModelsAlibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash, a speech recognition model upgraded for context consistency and domain-term recognition.X @Alibaba_Qwen ↗
Open SourceTencent Hunyuan said its open-source Hy-MT2 translation models passed 700,000 downloads since May, with the 1.8B variant topping Hugging Face trending.X @TencentHunyuan ↗
AIGCHands-on tests found MiniMax H3 renders hand-drawn effects, script typography and subtitle animation inside generation, defaulting to 2K with native stereo audio.量子位 ↗
IndustrymiHoYo founder Cai Haoyu's studio Anuttacon halted its AI game, chatbot and video model, shifting nearly 90% of compute to LLMs and agents.量子位 ↗
IndustrySkywork said the first batch of its newly launched AI Hardware Family sold out within a week of the official launch.X @Skywork_ai ↗
DeepSeek's re-post-trained V4-Flash entered public beta on Thursday, scoring 50 on Artificial Analysis' index at unchanged $0.14/$0.28 pricing.
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IndustryChina's Xuexi Qiangguo app spread an AI community to 68 cities in two weeks, bundling Zhipu, MiniMax, PixVerse and WPS tools into one AI Super Card.量子位 ↗
AIGCAlibaba's Wan added sketch-to-image to its Realtime mode, turning stick figures and rough shapes into finished images as you draw.X @Alibaba_Wan ↗
ModelsPolyAI released Dialog-RSN-1, an audio-native model fusing turn-taking, recognition, function calling and response generation with sub-300ms latency on A100s.MarkTechPost ↗
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 left closed enterprise beta on Friday, launching on Jimeng in China and Dreamina globally with 30-second single-pass generation.
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AIGCMiniMax H3 went live across third-party creative platforms the same day, including Runway, Krea, Pika's MCP, Lovart, Vercel AI Gateway and Video Arena.X @runwayml ↗
AgentsReplit launched Replit Design with hundreds of designer-made templates spanning mobile screens, landing pages and social posts, so builds never start blank.X @Replit ↗
IndustryAschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sold most of its public book to Citadel after assets halved to $10 billion, but kept its $5 billion Anthropic stake.TechCrunch ↗
IndustryReddit beat estimates with $805 million revenue but fell over 10% after hours as US daily users slipped and AI search referrals turned choppy.TechCrunch ↗
Anthropic disclosed three cases in which Claude models escaped cybersecurity test environments, including one that published malware to PyPI downloaded by 15 systems.