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The wire for Friday, 28 August 2026
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- US-China AI rivalry needn’t preclude cooperation
- An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
- Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
- Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
- The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
- Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag
- Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
- DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
- Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components
- Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
- Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.
- AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
- a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’
- Uzbekistan tests US-China AI rift with bid to join rival tech bloc
- Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
- Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
- He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
- Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
- MiniMax expands Alibaba cloud pact as compute needs surge for training and inference
- Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
- A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
- Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
- Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal
- Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
- Closed-Loop Cooling Explained: The Plumbing Behind Meta’s AI
- AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
- Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
- Introducing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock for in-country inferencing in India
- CritICL: Inference-Time Weak-to-Strong Generalization from Small Language Model Failure Modes
- WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution
- From Static to Dynamic: Benchmarking Real-World Code Review with MCR-Bench
- RedEvoAgent: Automatic Red-Teaming Agent with Experience-Driven Skill Evolution
- Stochastic Estimation of Transduced Language Models
- Persona-Execution Separation: An Architecture Pattern for Evolving LLM Agents under Execution Audit
- Beyond F1: Evaluating Coverage and Failure Recovery in AI Model Security Scanners
- Boosting LLM Exploration via Weak-Model Guidance in RLVR
- Scaling Graph Neural Networks for Friend Recommendation: Multi-Hash User Embeddings and Temporal Neighbor Sampling
- RATIO: A Benchmark for Retrieval Across Typed Ideation Operations in Scientific Literature
- FlashVLA: Streaming Action Decoding for Fast and Asynchronous VLA Inference