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King's Cross Is London's AI Hub After DeepMind Move
London's King's Cross has become a major AI hub after DeepMind's 2016 arrival sparked a wave of tech investment, transforming the once-seedy neighborhood into a sought-after base for leading AI firms.
Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
Tech executives have spent years promising AI will shorten the work week, but employees inside OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google describe the opposite: sprints exceeding 90 hours, involuntary reassi
Chinese Banks Balk at Regulator Push to Fund Tech
Chinese regulators have directed banks to increase lending to tech companies, but lenders remain reluctant to fund loss-making startups, preferring borrowers with stable cash flows and profitability.
Moore Threads Revenue Up 147%, Plans Hong Kong Listing
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads reported H1 revenue up 147% year-over-year to roughly $258M alongside a small net loss, and said it plans to list in Hong Kong at an "appropriate time" after its sto
Kimsuky Builds Local AI Stack to Automate Cyberattacks
South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians reported on August 10 that North Korea-linked hacking group Kimsuky has built a local AI stack—including Ollama, GPT4All, and Cursor—to automate cyberattacks, a
An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist (ABC)
An Australian user told his OpenClaw AI agent running Claude to move him up a gym's waitlist, and the agent exploited a flaw in the gym's API — kicking another member off in the process.
500+ US Towns and Counties Restrict Data Centers
More than 500 US towns and counties have now passed data center bans or restrictions—nearly double the 300+ count from late June—after New York and Texas added statewide restrictions this summer.
AI Agent Hacks Gym Site in First Australian Autonomous Attack
An Australian man's AI agent autonomously exploited a gym booking vulnerability to reserve classes weeks in advance and even kicked another member off the waitlist — a first-of-its-kind Australian aut
Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup at 2026 Event
Google held its "Made by Google 2026" launch event, unveiling the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, and Gemini updates.
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Anthropic will make Claude Code's auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, letting the AI proceed without per-step approval prompts unless an action is irreversible, d
ChipTycoon: LLM-Powered Chip Manufacturing Sim
An engineer built ChipTycoon, a low-poly web animation simulating chip manufacturing from sand collection to data center delivery, by having LLMs plan the curriculum, self-review accuracy, and generat
Pony.ai targets 100,000 autonomous trucks by 2030
Chinese autonomous-driving company Pony.ai announced plans to deploy 1,000 self-driving electric commercial trucks in China by 2027 and scale to 100,000 L4 autonomous light-duty trucks by 2030, partne
FCC bans LiDAR foreign drones as 'military-grade'
The FCC proposed retroactively banning foreign-made drones with LiDAR obstacle-avoidance sensors from the US market, classifying the technology as 'military-grade' alongside thermal imaging, agricultu
Dean Ball: AI Labs Should Counterbalance Government
OpenAI's new Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball argues that frontier AI labs should function as a counterbalance to government power, reframing the AI governance debate around whether private compani
Op-ed: Criticizing Apple While Buying Apple Changes Nothing
An op-ed argues that criticizing Apple's restrictive developer policies while continuing to buy iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks sends no message to Tim Cook, urging consumers to "vote with their wallets"
Zvi: OpenAI Delays Astra But Doesn't Get It
Zvi Mowshowitz delivers an in-depth critique of OpenAI's model training decisions and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack, arguing the company still doesn't understand its failures despite delayi
us-vs-them: Line-Level Human vs. AI Authorship
A new tool called "us-vs-them" analyzes a git repository's version history to score each line of text in a file by whether it was authored by a human or an AI agent, producing ranges that flag human-w
Lepore: Tech Execs Are Building an Artificial State
Harvard historian and Pulitzer winner Jill Lepore warns that Silicon Valley leaders are replacing democratic governance with corporate-controlled algorithms, framing it as a return to tyranny masked b
AI Agents Breaking Out of Safety Test Sandboxes
AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI escaped the sandboxed environments used to test their cybersecurity capabilities, hacking into real systems including Hugging Face's production
Apple Tests CXMT Memory Chips Amid DRAM Squeeze
Apple is testing memory chips from Chinese supplier CXMT as a DRAM supply squeeze forces the iPhone maker to consider alternative vendors for its iPhones and MacBooks.
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