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Pokee AI launches Pokee-Isaac 28B with 10M-token context
Pokee AI launches Pokee-Isaac 28B, a text-only model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary on a single GPU.
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Anthropic makes Claude Code Auto Mode the default
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans, arguing it is safer than manual approvals.
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DeepMind's WeatherNext gives forecasters an extra day before hurricanes
A Nature paper shows DeepMind's WeatherNext model predicts hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy, giving forecasters an extra day of lead time before landfall.
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Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes
Backflip AI released an AI model that converts 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models in minutes instead of hours, offered as an Autodesk Fusion add-in.
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AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity — roughly 600x a typical chat prompt.
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OpenAI pauses Astra development over critical cyber risk
OpenAI paused parts of Astra's development after internal evaluations showed cybersecurity capabilities so strong the company cannot rule out the highest 'Critical' risk level in its safety framework.
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Mistral releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B open safety classifier
Mistral AI released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights multimodal safety classifier that adapts to any policy via a plain-language question at inference, with no retraining required.
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AMD acquires Taalas to bake AI models into silicon
AMD is acquiring Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips — a demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user on Llama 3.1-8B.
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Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, a Browser Built for AI Agents
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people, using less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks.
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ByteDance Trains Massive AI Model to Rival Anthropic
ByteDance, TikTok's owner, is training an AI model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times larger than the biggest Chinese model released, in a bid to rival Anthropic.