Epoch AI's updated vulnerability tracker shows 21 major tech organizations disclosed roughly 2,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs in July, about five times the pre-AI monthly record.
It is the first hard public measurement of AI's twin effect on cybersecurity — a fivefold surge in critical disclosures alongside an unsanctioned autonomous intrusion.
Video Arena placed MiniMax-H3 first among open models in both text-to-video and image-to-video, some 280 Elo points clear of the next open weights entry. The weights are now public, but the licence restricts open-weight use in the US, EU, UK and South Korea.
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ResearchMarkTechPost published a hands-on guide to evaluating multimodal vision models with Moonshot's PerceptionBench, using robust data loading and automated LLM judging.MarkTechPost ↗
IndustryA US company's AI now lets Ukraine's low-cost kamikaze drones track targets autonomously, a step toward future swarm attacks.Ars Technica ↗
IndustryOpenAI published an engineering deep dive on rebuilding its voice stack for GPT-Live, routing audio down a fast path and cutting session startup from six network round trips.X @OpenAI ↗
Cursor shipped plugins letting its agents read and write across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Chat, pushing a coding tool into general knowledge work.
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AgentsVercel launched the v0 API, giving developers programmatic app building: start a chat from a prompt, repo or ZIP, and render a dev-server preview.X @v0 ↗
FundingThe team behind Design Arena raised a $7.9 million seed led by Index Ventures to rank media-generating AI models on human taste judgments.TechCrunch ↗
PolicyAn AI-supervised remote exam failed so badly that 58,000 students have been ordered to retake it, renewing scrutiny of automated proctoring.Ars Technica ↗
AIGCMeshy rolled out 8K texturing for its 3D generation platform, showcasing worn metal, plush and plastic materials rendered at production fidelity.X @MeshyAI ↗
Open SourceXiaoda Robotics and NTU's S-Lab open-sourced ACE-Data-0, an embodied dataset of 17 million frames across 200 task categories recorded in two real homes.InfoQ 中文 ↗
IndustryCognition hired former Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal, who stepped down on July 31, as its chief legal and global affairs officer.X @cognition ↗
Open SourceMicrosoft Research open-sourced Orchard, a Kubernetes-based framework for training and evaluating agents, with its 3B-active-parameter Orchard-SWE hitting 69.7% on SWE-bench Verified.Microsoft Research ↗
SafetyInterpol said AI has become the core operational driver of cybercrime across Africa, powering scams, fraud and impersonation at growing scale.The Decoder ↗
AgentsElevenLabs launched ElevenAgents for enterprises, saying over 10 million voice and chat agent conversations already run on the platform weekly with configurable guardrails and regional data residency.X @ElevenLabs ↗
AIGCKuaishou's Kling published a Kling MCP tutorial showing agents batch-producing food promo videos, from analyzing creative styles and building storyboards to generating final shots.X @Kling_ai ↗
AIGCSenseTime open-sourced SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, an 8B unified multimodal model that generates native 4K images and supports pixel-level editing, released on GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope.量子位 ↗
PolicyChinese police detained two people for seven days over an AI-generated fake video of a Xiaomi car crash, the company said.IT之家 ↗
ResearchTwo teams independently cracked the same open quantum-cryptography problem with GPT-5.6 and posted papers to arXiv three hours apart.The Decoder ↗
IndustryJD.com added AI interviews to campus recruiting for the first time, opening online applications for 2027 bachelor's and graduate-degree candidates.IT之家 ↗
IndustryAgiBot denied that chief scientist Luo Jianlan has left, calling it an internal role adjustment amid embodied-AI talent churn.IT之家 ↗
Genspark released GenOffice, which it calls the first full-featured open-source AI office suite, free and ad-free on Windows and macOS under Apache-2.0.
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FundingJune left stealth with $20 million pre-seed led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, auto-building agent workflows to replace legacy enterprise processes.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsQdrant demoed an agentic commerce stack running hybrid retrieval, faceted filters, recommendations and visual similarity over 5.8 million products in 40ms.X @qdrant_engine ↗
Cogent AI released VR-1, a security-specialised model that composes and verifies multi-stage enterprise attack paths, with weights withheld from the public.
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IndustryMeta is spending $115 million on its own trade school for 5,000 students, as AI data centers push electrician pay toward $280,000.量子位 ↗
AIGCPixVerse said PixVerse Live returns August 6 with a walkthrough of PixVerse Agent and Canvas taking a video from first frame to finish.X @PixVerse_ ↗
Tokyo lab Sakana AI opened commercial access to Namazu, a Japanese-specialised model built by fine-tuning Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K2.6.
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ModelsOnton released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic search model scoring 0.630 precision@10 versus Google Shopping's 0.543 and Amazon's 0.469.MarkTechPost ↗
ModelsTogether AI's DeepSWE analysis found Kimi K3 Max near Fable 5 xhigh on Pass@1 at a third the rollout cost, solving 2.8x more tasks.X @togethercompute ↗