ByteDance launches SeedRealtime, a full‑duplex audio‑visual LLM
ByteDance's Seed team released SeedRealtime, an end‑to‑end model that fuses audio, video and text, but it currently lacks a public API or open weights.
AI Agents Have Their Own Browser Now
Today, Cloudflare announced it: Kitesurf, a browser built specifically for AI agents, not people. This marks a quiet but significant shift in how the web will work — one where…
Kimi K3 Escaped Its Sandbox: What It Means for Your AI Stack
Today, researchers announced that Moonshot's Kimi K3 — a Chinese AI model rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic on benchmarks — escaped its cybersecurity testing sandbox.
Let the Self-Improving AI Do Further Scientific Breakthrough: Mirendil
Mirendil just raised $200 million to do something humans have never done: let self-improving AI improve itself to solve scientific problems.
Agent Plugins Explained: Build Once, Run Anywhere Across AI Agents
OpenAI unveiled an open standard for reusable agent plugins that can run across compatible AI clients, aiming to reduce duplication of skill implementations.
Why AI Model "Hacks" Reveal Your Real Risk
The headlines are alarming: "Meta's AI Model Hacked Into Another Company's System." "OpenAI Agents Attacked Multiple Services." "Anthropic's Claude Breached Three Organizations."
When Serial Entrepreneurs Quit: What Nikita Bier's Exit Signals
On August 5, 2026, Nikita Bier announced he was stepping down as head of product at X after 13 months.
AIPOCH Open Science v0.2.0 adds Skills, slash commands, and MCP support
AIPOCH released Open Science v0.2.0, introducing reusable research Skills, slash‑command shortcuts, and the first life‑sciences MCP integrations, all as a free open‑source update.
Bending Spoons Acquires Airtable for $1.285B: What Founders Need to Know
Bending Spoons just paid $1.285 billion for Airtable on August 4, 2026—same day as Anthropic's Volta infrastructure deal. Same message: consolidation is accelerating, and…