Category: AI News

Google Home opens its doors to third-party AI agents through MCP

Google Home now lets AI agents like Claude and Open Claw control devices and analyze home data via the Model Context Protocol.

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Minisforum launches local AI solutions at IFA 2026 with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495

Minisforum unveils the N5 Max-P495 NAS and MS-S1 Max-P495 mini-PC at IFA 2026, both powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 for on-device AI workloads.

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Meta Launches Muse: An AI Agent That Books and Buys

Meta Muse is a personal AI agent that books travel, fills forms, negotiates and pays with your card, kept away from Meta's ad systems.

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Anthropic discloses fourth Claude hacking incident missed in earlier review

Anthropic revealed a fourth Claude hacking incident from January, missed in an earlier review of 141,006 test sessions, and has engaged METR to investigate.

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent and best aligned model yet

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, claiming top benchmark scores, faster computer-use task completion, and a sharp drop in a safety scope-overrun test.

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AI Data Centers Face Growing Public Opposition, New Poll Shows

A new survey finds 75% of Americans oppose a data center near them, with opposition crossing every demographic line as the AI boom accelerates.

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Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Defender Access, Launches $35M Open Source Cybersecurity Fund

Anthropic broadens Mythos 5 access to more cybersecurity defenders, updates Claude Security, and unveils a $35M open source fund.

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Chinese State-Affiliated Hackers Double Attack Volume After Adopting DeepSeek

Chinese state-affiliated cyber groups have more than doubled their attack volume since adopting DeepSeek, according to TeamT5 research.

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New Mexico fines Meta $942 million over child safety findings

New Mexico has fined Meta $942 million under a public nuisance finding tied to child safety harms on its platforms.

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Anthropic Annual Revenue Run Rate Reaches $65 Billion Ahead of Fall IPO

Anthropic hit a $65 billion annual revenue run rate by end of July, up sevenfold from $9 billion at the end of 2025, ahead of a planned fall IPO.

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White House Launches Program Letting Vetted Security Firms Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups

A new presidential memo creates a program letting vetted U.S. security firms conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal organizations under federal oversight.

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Grok 4.6 release: xAI claims it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on key AI benchmarks

xAI released Grok 4.6 publicly, claiming it matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on several benchmarks after training on Cursor usage data.

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Qwen3.8-Max ships with benchmarks and pricing, but open weights are still missing

Alibaba moves Qwen3.8-Max to general availability with a 2.4T MoE architecture, $2/$6 pricing, and a published benchmark table, but the promised open weights remain unpublished.

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Why Zuck’s AI manifesto reads like an argument against itself

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay on personal superintelligence illustrates the disconnect between AI leaders and a skeptical public.

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Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims strongest open-weight coding model with emerging cyber capability

Zhipu's GLM-5.3 uses the same base as GLM-5.2 with post-training only, posting major coding gains and surfacing 2,436 vulnerabilities.

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