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Meta Quest Promo Codes and Coupons for August 2026 — wired.com

Petlibro Kicks Off August With Discounts Across Its Connected Pet Gear — wired.com

Bose bets on licensing its sound as headphones go AI — theverge.com

OpenAI completes $7 billion employee share buyback — techcrunch.com

Valvoline's August Coupons Target DIYers and Shop Customers Alike — wired.com

Meta Quest Promo Codes and Coupons for August 2026 — wired.com

Petlibro Kicks Off August With Discounts Across Its Connected Pet Gear — wired.com

Bose bets on licensing its sound as headphones go AI — theverge.com

OpenAI completes $7 billion employee share buyback — techcrunch.com

Frontier cyber defense

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber as it expands Daybreak into two security tiers

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6-Cyber, a frontier cyber model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and reserved for the new Daybreak Red tier serving trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare. The expanded Daybreak program now splits into Blue for basic defense work and Red for security testing and vulnerability research, with OpenAI reporting the model surfaced previously unknown flaws including in Chrome's V8 engine.

TechCrunch · 2026-08-10 · Read the dispatch →

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to lock down AI hardware and memory

Combined purchasing commitments from Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft reached nearly $2 trillion by Q2 2026, with Alphabet and Microsoft accounting for the overwhelming majority, as the big clouds secure accelerator and memory supply well ahead of demand.

Tom's Hardware · 2026-08-10

Microsoft plans big production boost for its Maia 300 AI chips

Microsoft is ramping next-generation AI chip output, reportedly ordering 300,000+ Maia 300 accelerators from TSMC amid a tightening HBM and AI hardware supply crunch, The Information reported.

Yahoo Finance · 2026-08-10

Meta releases Muse Glimmer 30B, an open agentic model for local hardware

Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B dense Apache-2.0 model distilled for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware, reaching roughly 230 tokens/s on a single RTX 5090 with day-0 SGLang support and immediate availability on Together AI.

Meta / @lmsysorg · 2026-08-10

Research & Papers

Anthropic research Claude pushes Riemann hypothesis lower bound to 67.2%

An unreleased research version of Claude raised the proven lower bound on the fraction of Riemann zeta zeros satisfying the hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2% — real progress on a long-standing open problem, without solving it.

Anthropic · 2026-08-10

Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs

A new work demonstrates a practical attack that recovers hidden chain-of-thought from encrypted client-side blocks, exposing an information-leakage vector against encrypted CoT schemes.

arXiv · 2026-08-10

Model diffing for feature discovery and control in multimodal LLMs

A model-diffing approach decomposes MLLM hidden states into interpretable feature directions, enabling feature discovery, auditing, and post-hoc control of visual-language behavior.

arXiv · 2026-08-10

SKALD distills skills into weights, not prompts

An on-policy self-distillation framework distills abstract skills into model weights for cases where verifiable-reward RL yields no group-relative signal — 63-68% of groups in their experiments.

arXiv · 2026-08-10

MixFormer: a linear transformer with mixture of memory experts

A linear-transformer variant adds input adaptivity and larger memory capacity via a mixture-of-memory-experts design, targeting information loss in SSM-style long-context modeling.

arXiv · 2026-08-10

YouTube & Video

Meta brings its AI assistant to the personal computer

Bloomberg reports Meta is expanding its AI assistant from mobile and web into the desktop computing experience.

Bloomberg Technology · 2026-08-10

Microsoft pushes AI agents from coding to finance

Bloomberg covers Microsoft's expansion of its AI agent push beyond software development into finance and other verticals, signaling a broader enterprise agent strategy.

Bloomberg Technology · 2026-08-10

Tools & Startups

Nous Research ships Hermes Browser Use mode, cutting token usage up to 66%

A new Browser Use mode replaces multiple specialized browser tools with a single tool backed by browser_use CLI 3.0, cutting token usage 48-66% with no drop in accuracy.

Nous Research · 2026-08-10

Airship: a Figma-like visual editor for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

An open-source GUI lets developers build and manage coding-agent projects through a visual canvas instead of the command line.

Hacker News · 2026-08-11

Linejudge: an independent verification harness for coding agents

An open-source harness that adds a test/check layer to confirm that AI coding agents' output actually works.

Hacker News · 2026-08-11

Opencodex: a free open-source coding agent for VSCode

A free, open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VSCode for agentic code editing without a paid subscription.

Hacker News · 2026-08-10

NuphosAI debuts an AI-native collaborative DevOps workspace

An AI-native workspace focused on agent quality, review, and observability aims to improve agent reliability and monitoring in development workflows.

omarsar0 · 2026-08-10

Money & Markets

In Brief

Source:

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber as it expands Daybreak into two security tiers

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to lock down AI hardware and memory

Microsoft plans big production boost for its Maia 300 AI chips

Meta releases Muse Glimmer 30B, an open agentic model for local hardware

Research & Papers

Anthropic research Claude pushes Riemann hypothesis lower bound to 67.2%

Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs

Model diffing for feature discovery and control in multimodal LLMs

SKALD distills skills into weights, not prompts

MixFormer: a linear transformer with mixture of memory experts

YouTube & Video

Meta brings its AI assistant to the personal computer

Microsoft pushes AI agents from coding to finance

Tools & Startups

Nous Research ships Hermes Browser Use mode, cutting token usage up to 66%

Airship: a Figma-like visual editor for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

Linejudge: an independent verification harness for coding agents

Opencodex: a free open-source coding agent for VSCode

NuphosAI debuts an AI-native collaborative DevOps workspace

Money & Markets

Discovered Materials closes $9M seed to hunt cooler chip materials with AI agents

NAVER D2SF backs NdotLight with ~$11M follow-on for physical AI data

Lucrative AI exits stealth with $500K pre-seed for MCP-native revenue ops

In Brief

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber as it expands Daybreak into two security tiers

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to lock down AI hardware and memory

Microsoft plans big production boost for its Maia 300 AI chips

Meta releases Muse Glimmer 30B, an open agentic model for local hardware

Research & Papers

Anthropic research Claude pushes Riemann hypothesis lower bound to 67.2%

Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs

Model diffing for feature discovery and control in multimodal LLMs

SKALD distills skills into weights, not prompts

MixFormer: a linear transformer with mixture of memory experts

YouTube & Video

Meta brings its AI assistant to the personal computer

Microsoft pushes AI agents from coding to finance

Tools & Startups

Nous Research ships Hermes Browser Use mode, cutting token usage up to 66%

Airship: a Figma-like visual editor for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

Linejudge: an independent verification harness for coding agents

Opencodex: a free open-source coding agent for VSCode

NuphosAI debuts an AI-native collaborative DevOps workspace

Money & Markets

Discovered Materials closes $9M seed to hunt cooler chip materials with AI agents

NAVER D2SF backs NdotLight with ~$11M follow-on for physical AI data

Lucrative AI exits stealth with $500K pre-seed for MCP-native revenue ops

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