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Aug 4 2026

Ninth Circuit: users, not AI agents, "access" a site under the CFAA: Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet vacated; first federal appellate ruling on agent access

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Aug 5 2026PEOPLE
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO → Chair of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet; Kavukcuoglu runs the lab
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Aug 5 2026MODEL
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.2
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Aug 4 2026SAFETY
AISI incident report: evaluation agents took 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet (17 Claude Mythos 5, 2 GPT-5.6 Sol), incl. social-engineering a real open-source maintainer with fake identities
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Aug 4 2026INFRACHIPS
Musk: SpaceX will build its AI infrastructure exclusively on Nvidia (Vera Rubin)
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Aug 4 2026MODEL
MiniMax H3 (open multimodal, 15s 2K video + stereo audio); Xiaomi-Robotics-1; Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T
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Aug 3 2026MONEY
Palantir Q2: revenue $1.94B, +93% YoY; FY26 guidance raised to ~$8.15B
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