Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance. The post TerminalFi…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/28/terminalfix-campaign-deploys-reverse-tunnel-through-multistage-intrusion/Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to the autonomous devel…
https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-ai-co-scientist-now-plans-experiments-runs-lab-equipment-and-writes-scientific-papers/Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document both failures and succe…
https://the-decoder.com/google-gives-ai-agents-their-own-wiki-so-they-can-learn-from-mistakes-and-successes/Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped from weeks to hours. …
https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-wants-to-do-for-physical-hardware-what-its-model-context-protocol-did-for-software/In China, 95 percent of the 128,000 short dramas released in Q1 2026 were AI-generated. Some actors are being forced to hand over their voice and likeness to AI tools before getting fired, the Financ…
https://the-decoder.com/ai-generated-videos-are-already-displacing-actors-and-livestreamers-across-chinas-entertainment-industry/LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on …
https://the-decoder.com/laion-drops-massive-open-video-dataset-with-10-million-hours-of-footage-for-ai-research/Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 percent increase. Anthrop…
https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-code-limit-change-is-a-raise-on-paper-but-a-cut-in-practice/OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplays the move, saying O…
https://the-decoder.com/openai-cuts-off-cursor-after-spacex-acquisition-citing-musks-history-of-breaking-contracts/Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The compan…
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyrightJust as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those cent…
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986176/data-center-pollution-epa-rule-change-air-permitNoteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Manchester Airports Group cyberattack, Carhartt breach data was partly fake, U.S. Bank responds to ransomware gang’s claims. The post In Ot…
https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-log4j-rce-scare-minimus-shutdown-iranian-hacker-sanctions/The best Stratechery content from the week of August 24, 2026 including the breaker's advantage, the new battle for HDMI1, and how data center discourse ends.
https://stratechery.com/2026/internet-hype-and-real-world-change/Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally for allegedly using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude without pe…
https://the-decoder.com/sony-and-warner-sue-anthropic-over-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typic…
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986364/google-search-ai-overviews-auto-expandAs audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically deriv…
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