Bloomberg: Google consolidates AI leadership in Mountain View under Koray Kavukcuoglu

DOE launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative, US government begins producing open-weight scientific models (Genesis-Science-1, with Arcee AI)

Anthropic makes classifier-gated "auto mode" the Claude Code default (effective 14 Aug), first frontier lab to drop human approval as the default for agent actions, citing 13.6% human catch rate

OpenAI slows Astra development, first model to approach the "Critical" cybersecurity tier of its Preparedness Framework (possible autonomous zero-day exploitation)

Meta ships Muse Code, a terminal coding agent on Muse Spark 1.2

Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat leave Google after 27 years with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to found Discovery Loop (PBC). Alphabet −5%, and is itself a founding investor

Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO → Chair of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet; Kavukcuoglu runs the lab