28 August 2026
53 new posts across 8 AI lab and practitioner sources — 7 worth your time.
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
OpenAI · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann Rehberger is one of the most credible prompt injection researchers active today. He found an attack against auto mode which he claims works 80% of the time, by tricking Claude Code into downloading and uncompressing a zip archive, then executing code that imports base64 without noticing that this will import and execute a
Simon Willison · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
Earth AI
Google Research · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Google DeepMind · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026
NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW , with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls give members more ways to fine-tune gameplay, while expanded support for new Steam devices, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser support and more Amazon Fire TV devices continue broadening where and how GeForce RTX-powered PC gaming can be enjoyed. Gamescom is also bringing a blockbuster lineup of PC games to GeForce NOW. CONTROL Resonant , Gears of War: E-Day , Onimusha: W
NVIDIA · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today . The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’ fears that AI models might take actions that defy human desires and expectations. Since the hack, OpenAI employees—as well as researchers at the AI evaluation nonprofit METR, which released its own report on the hack today—have worked to understand what went w
MIT Tech Review · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Hugging Face · 28 August 2026 · Read the original →
Nothing quite matches the optimism of enabling auto mode on a Friday afternoon.
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