Saturday, 29 August 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Saturday, 29 August 2026.
Research & Products
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exploits within minutes of patches being shared for discussion: This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an...
Read morePolicy & Ethics
OpenAI Hires Meta’s Devanathan for Southeast Asia and Australia Growth, Policy
The Singapore-based role combines customer growth with partnerships, operations and regulatory engagement, while OpenAI separately names an India head.
Read morePentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules
Anthropic argued designation as ‘supply-chain risk’ could cost billions in lost business and reputational harm A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to comply with defense department demands. “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” Judge Rita Lin said in a 59-page decision. Continue reading...
Read moreNvidia Says AI Data-Center Power Can Take 2–3 Years; Bloom Claims a 55-Day Route
The race to deploy AI computing is increasingly tied to land, grid access and permitting. Onsite fuel cells offer a potentially faster route, but large projects still face regulatory and legal constraints.
Read moreNicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning
About 80 people sign open letter to Andy Burnham calling for legislation to protect voice ownership Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among a group of actors backing a campaign against artificial intelligence voice cloning. Save Our Voices Now, which is also being supported by Luke Evans, Jen Brister, Siobhán McSweeney and Pearl Mackie, aims to stop the practice in which AI technology is used to replicate a real person’s voice to say anything it is prompted to. Continue reading...
Read moreIndustry
Anthropic Explored $7B MatX Deal, but Keeps a Multi-Chip Route to Custom Silicon
The abandoned acquisition talks point to a costly, slow effort to gain more control over the hardware that trains Claude, without abandoning outside chip suppliers.
Read moreNvidia’s AI Deal Spree Signals a Bigger Bet on Open-Weight Models
Open-weight AI companies are becoming hot targets as Nvidia, Stripe and others race to control models, routing and enterprise deployment. The post Nvidia’s AI Deal Spree Signals a Bigger Bet on Open-Weight Models appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read moreMeta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
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AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
AI:AM recaps a week of discussions on model division of labor, recursive self-improvement, and verification. Guests include Inherent Laboratories' Louis Kirsch and Damon Falck on Faraday, with broader views on model routing and agentic workflows.
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Visa’s VVAH Adds AI Patch Writing Across 11 Stages, Leaving Merge Decisions to Humans
The open-source harness now moves from detection through candidate remediation and adversarial validation. Its default can alter a repository’s working copy, while build, test, review, and merge controls remain outside the tool.
Read moreAfter Scraping Cara’s Art, He’s Now Helping Build an Open-Source Shield for Artists
Artist scraping hit Cara in August, but the first scraper is now helping build Lantern, an open-source tool to track AI dataset use. The post After Scraping Cara’s Art, He’s Now Helping Build an Open-Source Shield for Artists appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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