Ghosts in the Machine

Wall Street Will Lend $500bn Against Nvidia's Chips

Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR signed memorandums to underwrite compute as an asset class -- Larry Fink calls it the next mortgage-backed security, and Nvidia lost $130bn of market value on the news.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Meta Opens Its Model, Calls Rivals' Doom a Power Grab

The first independent benchmark landed today -- Artificial Analysis scores Glimmer 35 on its intelligence index against a median of 9 for comparable models -- while Meta's own CTO told staff the productivity gains do not mean more time off.

Anthropic Offers to Pay Your Power Increase

NEWOpenAI Wants a Power Trader at $285,000

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

NEWOpenAI Trained a Model to Stop Refusing: 1.5% to 95%

GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of exploit-chain and privilege-escalation requests that GPT-5.6 Sol completes 1.5% of -- released to vetted Daybreak Red partners days after OpenAI paused Astra for being too cyber-capable.

Open Models Are 4-7 Months Behind on Cyber

Poison the Log, Own the Agent: 9 Times in 10

NEWClaude Moved a Riemann Bound, 41.6% to 67.2%

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Claude Code Stops Asking Permission Aug 14

OpenClaw Walls Off the Browser and DNS

Inference Costs Fell 43% Since May

The FightLaw, policy and power

Voters Turned on Data Centres. Now Lenders Have.

Reuters finds banks now weighing local opposition alongside permits and power costs, with 75 projects worth about $130bn contested in the first quarter -- after three candidates who ran against data centres won their primaries.

South Australia Puts AI Under Royal Commission

Sanders to Three CEOs: Pause, or We Will

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Promised a 4-Day Week; Staff Work 90 Hours

Beijing Switched Off the AI Boyfriends

Fake Students, Real Aid, AI Doing the Homework

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Platforms Start Labelling the Slop They Sell

The Robot Guards Are Being Sent Home