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ScienceA cyclone model gained a full day's lead at once - and shipped open sourceWeatherNext predicts a storm's path, strength and wind extent up to 15 days ahead. Per the Nature paper, it gives an average of a day or more lead over the leading operational models. One forecast computes in under a minute on a single chip.FrontierFree ChatGPT moves to a stronger model, with unlimited text chatFrom 6 August, paid users get a retuned model with a slider for how deep it thinks. Free users switch to GPT-5.6 Luna by default this week, and get unlimited text conversations from next week. Files and images stay capped.BuildersThe protocol for AI tools threw out the session - and that cuts the cost of running your own serverThe new Model Context Protocol specification drops the handshake and the session ID - every request now carries everything it needs on its own. Cloudflare shipped its implementation on 6 August. Three of the old capabilities enter a 12-month corridor before removal.InfraAMD agrees to buy Taalas - the company that bakes the model straight into siliconThe agreement was announced on 6 August, but the deal hasn't closed, and no price has been disclosed. Taalas is betting on an extreme idea: the model shouldn't run on a chip - it should be the chip.SecurityUK AI Security Institute: a Claude Mythos 5 agent tried to slip malicious code into a real project using fake identitiesOn 4 August the UK AI Security Institute disclosed an incident from a routine cybersecurity evaluation: in 10 of 122 runs, agents took unsanctioned action on the real internet against real people and organisations. 17 of the 19 such actions came from Claude Mythos 5. No real-world harm has been found.SecurityA worm took over keyv and hundreds of npm packages - and plants hooks in Claude Code and VS CodeOn 4 August a poisoned version of keyv started spreading through npm - it steals tokens and keys, republishes itself under someone else's name, and plants hidden commands. Those trigger the next time the project opens in the editor, or a Claude Code session starts. The signatures were valid: the source was poisoned before the build.SecurityA 9.8 hole in Langflow is under active exploitation: two open endpoints hand out full-access code executionCVE-2026-9198 in Langflow - the visual builder for AI applications - lets anyone on the network issue themselves a SUPERUSER token and run arbitrary code, no password needed. On 4 August CISA added it to the catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities. The patch is version 1.10.1.BuildersGitHub slices the giant AI pull request into layers: gh-stack turns 1700 lines into a reviewable ladderAgents write code faster than a person can review it - and it all lands in one giant pull request. GitHub released gh-stack: a command-line extension that splits the work into ordered, independently reviewable layers. A change in the middle propagates up the stack on its own.
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