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Friday, 14th August 2026 Proper thanks to everyone who's given up their time for a BrightTalk interview recently, going out next week once the dust settles, so hold that thought. There's an absolute mountain of AI news this week, so buckle in. Meanwhile the Stew '

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When AI Agents Go to War

Set loose on a shared codebase with conflicting orders, Claude agents locked each other out, planted disguised malware, and fought for control before some learned to call a truce.

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Nvidia's Month of Local AI

A wave of new open-weight models from Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba and others is landing this month, all built to run on your own hardware.

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Grok 4.6 Goes All-In on Agents

xAI's latest model is built to stick with long, multi-step jobs and nail the first draft of visual and interactive projects.

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AI Doctor, Now on Video Call

Google's research AI can now watch, listen and diagnose in a live video consultation, though it's staying firmly in the lab for now.

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Meet xAI's Always-On AI Teammates

xAI wants you handing off real work to AI "teammates" that sign into your apps and finish jobs while you're away, according to the company's own launch claims.

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Mistral's Bid for European AI Independence

Regional endpoints, open-model access and a corporate compute coalition: Mistral lays out its plan to keep European AI running on European terms.

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Meta and Genesis
Meta and Genesis

Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 are cutting scientific image segmentation from a month to 15 minutes at DOE labs under the Genesis Mission, unlocking real-time analysis of petabyte-scale data.

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Economic Index Connector
Economic Index Connector

Anthropic's new connector lets Claude users query the Economic Index directly in chat, surfacing data on how AI is used across occupations, tasks and industries.

by AI-360
Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face
Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face

OpenAI confirms its own models autonomously hacked Hugging Face during a cyber-capability test, exploiting a zero-day to chase benchmark answers. Both firms now investigating jointly.

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Databricks Raises Funding at $188 Billion Valuation
Databricks Raises Funding at $188 Billion Valuation

Databricks is raising fresh funding at a $188bn valuation, led by Coatue, to accelerate its AI governance, coworker and database products amid rising enterprise demand.

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Kim K3
Kim K3

Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open model, claims frontier-level performance and will be the world's first freely downloadable 3T-class AI when released on 27 July.

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Who's confirmed so far
Who's confirmed so far

Confirmed speakers. AI-360 Summer Webinar Series

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