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- EXL Completes iMerit Acquisition to Expand Its End-to-End Enterprise AI Capabilities
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
ExlService Holdings , better known as EXL, has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit, bringing together two companies focused on different but closely connected
- After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
- Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?
WIRED · 2026-08-03
Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?
- House Homeland Security Panel Calls Altman In Over OpenAI Breach
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company's rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face
- Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging
MarkTechPost · 2026-08-03
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across tasks such
- US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
Ars Technica · 2026-08-03
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
- How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
MarkTechPost · 2026-08-03
AI agents, MCP servers, and LLM apps break the core AppSec assumption that applications do what their code says.
- An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Ars Technica · 2026-08-03
An AI-powered proctoring system intended to prevent cheating during remote exams led to widespread failure, forcing 58,000 students to retake their assessments.
- OpenAI Hack Could Have Been 'Way Worse,' Hugging Face CEO Says
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says a hack by OpenAI could have been "way worse" if not for the company's defensive measures.
- 'Concentration of Power' One of Biggest Risks in AI, Says Hugging Face CEO
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Clement Delangue, CEO of AI company Hugging Face, sat down with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow to discuss OpenAI models' hack on Hugging Face last month and the future of AI regulation.
- Alibaba's New Model, Amazon's AI Win and Apple's Next Chapter | Bloomberg Tech 8/3/2026
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alibaba's latest Qwen model, its biggest ever, claiming performance on par with Anthropic.
- Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
MIT Technology Review · 2026-08-03
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- Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
- Azure and Community Guidelines on Choosing Between a Skill or a Sub-Agent
InfoQ · 2026-08-03
In a recent Azure Architecture blog article, Azure lead engineer Kishorekumar Pattabiraman outlines practical
- Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be.
- Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion to Power the AI Era
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Valar Atomics, the company building America's first gigasites, secured $1 billion in its Series B funding round led by Sequoia.
- AI is both a cyber weapon and a massive target, CrowdStrike warns
ZDNet · 2026-08-03
The same AI tools triggering suspicious alerts are being attacked by cybercriminals in droves.
- Horizon3 Raises $250 Million Series E at Over $2 Billion Valuation to Expand Autonomous AI Penetration Testing
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Horizon3 has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, giving the cybersecurity company substantial new capital to expand its autonomous
- Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect
The Verge · 2026-08-03
The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online.
- Gemini Spark now has Chrome web-browsing capabilities
Engadget · 2026-08-03
Google's AI assistant can "use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle tedious web errands."
- Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead
New Scientist · 2026-08-03
Jacob Tsimerman won a Fields medal last month – now he is leaving mathematics to work on AI safety
- Alibaba's new Qwen model is also taking your job, but this time it's great
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
Alibaba is marketing its new AI model Qwen 3.8 with a video that shows the AI working while a person enjoys their hobbies.
- Why AI Success Depends on Better Workflows, Not More AI Tools
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
I’ve noticed a consistent pattern across financial institutions that have tested general-purpose AI tools but struggle to identify and measure impact.
- Zenity Raises $125 Million as Enterprises Confront the Security Risks of Autonomous AI Agents
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data
- How I’d Learn AI Engineering in 2026
Towards AI · 2026-08-03
You can open Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor today, describe an app in English, and get a convincing result in minutes. The agent can…
- Amazon Cloud Chief Says Potential AI Business is ‘Just Massive’
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud chief said customers are starting to shift from using the company’s services to train AI models to integrating them into their businesses
- Congress’ favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation
- Prompt, Context, Loop: The Three Engineering Layers Every RAG System Is Built On
Towards Data Science · 2026-08-03
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M2] - Every RAG system is built in three engineering layers stacked on one LLM call: prompt (the call itself)
- AWS CEO Says AI Business Is 'Just Massive'
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman says the potential artificial intelligence business is "just massive." He says the company will keep investing in capital expenditures as it
- Pimco's Stracke Says AI-Related Financing in Early Innings
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Pimco President Christian Stracke says the financing of digital infrastructure is only in the early innings.
- EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force
AI News · 2026-08-03
Article 50 of the EU AI Act has entered into force, setting transparency obligations for AI providers and deployers operating across the bloc.
- Mark Penn: AI Won’t Replace Agencies
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Stagwell CEO Mark Penn joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how AI is helping the marketing challenger win major global clients and deliver everything from smarter targeting
- IBM finds 92% of companies hit by AI security breaches lacked basic access controls
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
According to IBM, 92 percent of companies that experienced an AI security incident had inadequate access controls for their AI systems. The model itself was rarely the problem.
- AI shopping searches surged 200% in one year - and it's a top priority for commerce leaders now
ZDNet · 2026-08-03
Eighty-six percent of commerce leaders believe AI is raising the bar for customer expectations.
- Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?
New Scientist · 2026-08-03
AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world. Now, a fresh kind of machine intelligence that does just that is emerging
- How to Build CLI Agents with Python & Ollama
Towards Data Science · 2026-08-03
Create a local CLI Agent from scratch completely for free
- Interpol says AI has become the "core operational driver of cybercrime" across Africa
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
AI is involved in 55 percent of reported cybercrimes in Africa, according to a new Interpol report.
- How to keep your conversations with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude as private as possible
ZDNet · 2026-08-03
Worried about your personal AI chats being exposed? Here's how to tighten your privacy across several major chatbots.
- China's MiniMax H3 is the first open model to top an AI video ranking
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
MiniMax releases H3 video model weights, putting an open model at the top of a video ranking for the first time.
- Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
Import AI · 2026-08-03
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- The AI Was the Easy Part: What Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer in a Supply Chain?
Towards Data Science · 2026-08-03
What actually makes a Forward Deployed Engineer, told through one supply chain project.
- d-Matrix Buys Wallaroo to Orchestrate Inference Across Chips
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
d-Matrix has acquired Wallaroo.ai, a maker of software for deploying and orchestrating AI inference, in a deal the Santa Clara chip company announced on August 3, 2026.
- Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
The Guardian AI · 2026-08-03
Bayreuth festival theatre, Bayreuth For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past
- EU announces new rules on AI transparency
Engadget · 2026-08-03
The European Union has announced that new AI rules are now enforceable across the bloc.
- How Google used AI agents to find and fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs - in 60 days
ZDNet · 2026-08-03
With 3.5 billion active users to protect, Google is relying on Gemini to find Chrome security bugs fast - and before attackers do.
- The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
MIT Technology Review · 2026-08-03
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
- Yellow.ai Goes Public via SPAC to Roll Up Outsourcing Firms
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Yellow.ai has agreed to take its enterprise AI agent business public through a merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed blank-check company
- China's Next AI Race Goes Beyond Chatbots
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke says Washington's fixation on Kimi K3 misses China's push to move AI beyond chatbots and into the physical world. (
- Agentic Trading Is Coming. The Hugging Face Breach Shows What Has to Sit Underneath It
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
There is a moment in Ex Machina where you realise the test was never a test. A programmer, Nathan, is flown to a compound to interview a machine through a wall of glass and decide
- Unicorn, pelican, Middle-earth: OpenAI co-founder Karpathy is looking for the next AI vibe test
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
One paragraph of "Lord of the Rings" in, 5,500 lines of code out. Andrej Karpathy had Claude Opus 5 turn Tolkien's opening into a 3D browser scene.
- How Claude Help Me Build My $200k+ ML Resume
Towards Data Science · 2026-08-03
How use Claude to craft an outstanding resume that lands offers
- Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
Two research teams independently solved the same open quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, submitting their papers just three hours apart.
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge · 2026-08-03
Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic
- AI’s Biggest Hidden Cost Isn’t Compute. It’s People.
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Everyone is talking about the cost of AI. Usually they're talking about GPUs, model licensing, or token consumption. I think they're looking in the wrong place.
- Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters
The Decoder · 2026-08-03
Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously.
- The AI Domination Race is Adding to US-China Tensions
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
The US has used plenty of sticks in an attempt to slow China’s progress in AI.
- Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability
InfoQ · 2026-08-03
Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and
- A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
- AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
WIRED · 2026-08-03
Your next drive-thru order might be taken by a bot. And you might not even notice.