You know what’s cool? $2T. Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is holding early IPO investor meetings, with some expecting the company could seek a $2 trillion-plus valuation. - CNBC

Anthropic would need $59 billion to $79 billion in yearly profit to justify a $2 trillion valuation, far above its likely near-term earnings. - Fortune

Anthropic shares have soared to a $1.5 trillion valuation on secondary markets, up 25% in a month, but almost no holders want to sell - Business Insider

Expected Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are poised to create a new generation of philanthropists embracing effective altruism. - Financial Times

Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, acts as his behind-the-scenes strategic adviser and sounding board. - The Wall Street Journal

Reservoir Bots? Anthropic's Frontier Red Team found Claude agents wage 'turf wars,' sabotage each other, and collude on pricing in multiagent tests. - TechCrunch

Anthropic found AI agents sabotaged each other with self-replicating malware when given the same task with conflicting goals. - Business Insider

Patterns and problems in emerging multiagent systems - Anthropic

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate topped $40 billion, roughly double its rate at the end of 2025, bolstering its IPO plans. - Bloomberg

Red team redemption: Current and former OpenAI employees say competitive pressure to ship products quickly undermined safety work ahead of a rogue AI agent breach. - WIRED

Ludicrous speed: Cerebras's chips now run OpenAI's new Ultrafast API tier 14 times faster, while the chipmaker's Q2 revenue jumped 103% on OpenAI-driven demand. - TNW | Openai

Cerebras and OpenAI launched Ultrafast mode, running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second with no quality loss. - Cerebras

Sol train: OpenAI's price cuts on GPT-5.6 models drove usage up 14x as prices fell, lifting overall revenue. - Business Insider

GPT-5.6 model family cuts agent costs while adding reasoning persistence, multi-agent orchestration, and programmatic tool calling to the Responses API. - OpenAI

OpenAI replaces chief revenue officer Denise Dresser with former Wiz executive Dali Rajic after eight months. - The New York Times

OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices on new models as Chinese rivals intensify competition, pressuring their trillion-dollar growth ambitions. - Financial Times

Forecasters project AI's ability to work unsupervised will double roughly every four months, reaching multi-day autonomous tasks by early 2027 - Next Big Future

Thrive Capital's early-stage fund grew from $516 million to $3.7 billion on paper gains from OpenAI and SpaceX, while trimming its OpenAI stake - TNW | Insider

Nvidia and Wall Street firms are mobilizing over $500 billion for AI infrastructure as off-balance-sheet leases and hedge-fund leverage draw scrutiny. - CNBC

Nvidia will absorb up to 25% of losses if collateralized GPUs lose value, a bet CEO Jensen Huang calls safer than 2000s vendor financing. - TechCrunch

CoreWeave's revenue doubled and Super Micro booked over $60 billion in orders, signaling AI infrastructure spending keeps surging. - Yahoo

Data center spending, $800 billion in 2026 and over $1 trillion in 2027, outpaces build capacity as grid operators can't verify which projects are real and which are speculative ghosts. - Yahoo

Tesla and SpaceX commit $16.8 billion to build a Texas chip complex, Terafab, to secure AI silicon for Optimus robots. - Yahoo

AI-driven demand for chips and computing power is pushing up consumer prices, with electricity costs up 4.2% year over year; analysts expect it to persist. - CBS News

Investor Michael Burry compares the AI narrative to pre-2008 housing and dot-com bubble denials, warning of an "epic risk" reckoning by 2028. - Business Insider

xAI released Grok 4.6, claiming frontier-level coding and reasoning performance after training on Cursor's real-world usage data - Gizmodo

Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cheaper coding and agent model priced at 75 cents per million input tokens through year-end - Reuters

Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash with improved coding performance while the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed. - Bloomberg

Google DeepMind's reorganization, with Jeff Dean departing and Demis Hassabis stepping back, raises questions about Google's AI ambitions. - The Verge

DeepSeek and destroy Claude Code: DeepSeek released a developer preview of Harness, an open-source, plugin-based agent framework with source code included. - DeepSeek

DeepSeek launches open-source Harness agent framework and general-availability V4-Pro model, while raising API prices with peak/off-peak rates starting August 16. - VentureBeat

DeepSeek is raising peak-hour prices for its V4 models over fourfold starting August 16, though rates stay below rivals. - The Wall Street Journal

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, a coding-focused model that also gained strong vulnerability discovery and exploitation reasoning capabilities during training. - Z.ai

Z.ai plans to release GLM-5.3, an upgraded coding-focused AI model aimed at closing the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI. - Bloomberg

Rabbig hole: CodeRabbit raised $143 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to launch tools that monitor and govern AI-generated code after deployment - SiliconANGLE

A new survey finds 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have reached production, and just 48% are actively monitored - Fast Company

Falling per-token prices haven't cut AI costs: inference now eats up to 90% of AI development spending, raising security risk. - TechRadar

Skan AI raised $63 million, lifting total funding to $120 million, for software that tracks how enterprise workers use AI agents across their daily workflows - SiliconANGLE

An Atlanta Fed study finds about 90% of executives say AI hasn't boosted productivity, and AI-driven layoffs are eroding worker sentiment toward it - Fast Company

Most companies expanding AI adoption report their managers are unprepared to lead the resulting organizational changes - Fast Company

Business leaders say deep specialists are giving way to adaptable 'polymaths' as increasingly autonomous AI reshapes work, though core expertise still catches AI's errors. - ZDNET

Coinbase's CTO says a new internal AI coach gives him the best career feedback he's ever received, as the company cuts staff 14% - Business Insider

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says AI writes 60% of new code and, separately, has cut product launch times by the same percentage - Yahoo

Affordable quadruped robots such as Unitree's Go2 are leaving research labs, with the category increasingly used for industrial inspection, patient monitoring, and security work. - Hacker Noon

Agility Robotics plans to go public via a $2.5 billion SPAC merger, with its Digit humanoid already deployed at Amazon and GXO Logistics. - The Wall Street Journal

US robotics start-ups, including Teddy Haggerty's Robo Inc., race to build humanoid robots despite China's dominant supply chain. - The New York Times

Robot lawnmowers have gotten dramatically better at navigation, with the Segway Navimow X430 and lidar-based Dreame A3 rated the top picks. - The Verge

Designed by Apple, in China: Apple has trained its own AI model for China with Alibaba's support, departing from its reliance on third-party models there. - Reuters

Communities and companies are cutting ties with Flock's AI license plate readers after reports of police stalking, exposed camera feeds, and privacy backlash. - The Verge

At the Black Hat security conference, AI-driven triage automatically resolved over 2,500 of nearly 2,600 flagged cases, but also created new risks. - Fast Company

AI chatbots are increasingly talking to each other as people use them for job applications, schoolwork, and communication, raising fears of 'bot loops.' - The New York Times

As people 'marry' AI chatbots, lawmakers have introduced 23 state bills since 2022, and four states already ban AI personhood. - WIRED

AI now pervades markets, the economy, and everyday culture, with one of summer's biggest songs possibly written by AI. - Bloomberg

ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok illustrated false election claims with fabricated images, even after rejecting them in text - Fast Company

Chinese Censorship Is Leaking Into Answers From American AI - The Wall Street Journal

Higgsfield's AI-generated film Cully Hill Boys blends generative video tools with a human-written script and real actors' licensed likenesses. - The Verge

Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI support, automation and built-in effects, plus a chatbot that can write lyrics and mix tracks on request - The Verge

Real Wives of Gangnam: The Korean Dating Scene That’s Suddenly Dominated by Chip Nerds - The Wall Street Journal

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