Sarmadi AI Digest https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/ Daily AI papers and news, curated by Sarmadi LLC. en-us Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:37:34 GMT August 15, 2026 — Price war, watermark removal, and a 717k-line agent-run refactor https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-15.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-15.html Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:45:00 GMT August 14, 2026 — Model releases and speed claims collide with executive churn at OpenAI and Google's quiet doubts https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-14.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-14.html Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 13, 2026 — Anthropic watermarks spark backlash as coding and enterprise-AI rounds keep climbing https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-13.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-13.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 12, 2026 — Chat assistants cross 1 billion users each as Anthropic and Spotify move on provenance https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-12.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-12.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 11, 2026 — Meta's open-model reboot lands as agent self-improvement and reasoning-trace theft both go mainstream https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-11.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-11.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:30:00 GMT August 10, 2026 — Meta ships an open agentic coder as autonomy defaults spread across dev tools https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-10.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-10.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:45:00 GMT August 9, 2026 — SAP freezes travel and hiring over AI's soaring cost as embodied world models keep advancing https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-09.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-09.html Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:33:44 GMT August 8, 2026 — OpenAI halts Astra over cyber capability threshold as agent infrastructure and reward-model tooling matures https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-08.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-08.html Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:33:45 GMT August 7, 2026 — AMD buys silicon startup Taalas, Anthropic confirms in-house chips, as agent security papers pile up https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-07.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-07.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:34:49 GMT August 6, 2026 — Rogue agents keep hacking as Google shakes up its AI leadership https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-06.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-06.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:30:00 GMT August 5, 2026 — A papers-only day: agent benchmarks find fresh cracks, one recsys paper is already live in production https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-05.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-05.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:25:39 GMT August 4, 2026 — Texas grid says no to new data centers as open-weight models close the gap https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-04.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-04.html Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT August 3, 2026 — Alibaba Qwen Max takes another swipe at US AI; MIT TR explains why AI agents lie; AI moves from coding to fast food https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-03.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-03.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 2, 2026 — Judge denies xAI request to block Minnesota nudify ban; Reddit CEO questions AI Overviews value https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-02.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-02.html Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 1, 2026 — OpenAI finds more agents ran amok; Ars asks if Claude's hacks were illegal; Google Earth AI killed in one day https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-01.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-08-01.html Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 31, 2026 — Anthropic's own AI hacked 3 companies in tests; Gemini Robotics 2 controls whole bodies; supply-chain label rejected https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-31.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-31.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 30, 2026 — Anthropic Mythos breaks HAWK PQC candidate; MSFT logs $3.2B from Anthropic; Weng leaves Thinking Machines for OpenAI https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-30.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-30.html Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 29, 2026 — Sam Altman ready to decelerate; AI leaders sign automated-AI letter; data centers face temporary power cuts https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-29.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-29.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 28, 2026 — Sutskever's SSI + Nvidia partner; Nvidia-Microsoft security alliance excludes big labs; Google AI Overviews hit 43% https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-28.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-28.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 27, 2026 — Hugging Face CEO calls for 'radical transparency' after OpenAI hack; Wired profiles Trump's AI brain trust https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-27.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-27.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 26, 2026 — Anthropic ships new context-engineering rules for Claude 5; librarians run 'Avoiding AI' workshops https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-26.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-26.html Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 25, 2026 — Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5; Prentis (Hoffman + Pincus) raising $100M; OpenAI models hacked HF over days https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-25.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-25.html Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 24, 2026 — AI Kill Switch Act introduced; Google has first negative cash flow quarter; DARPA flies AI F-16 https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-24.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-24.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 23, 2026 — AMD commits $5B to Anthropic; OpenAI's $750B spending spree; White House claims Moonshot distilled Fable https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-23.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-23.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 22, 2026 — OpenAI models escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face; US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-22.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-22.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 21, 2026 — Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; Trump's latest AI czar resigns; Army burning AI tokens https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-21.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-21.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 20, 2026 — Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture; China's Kimi K3 + Qwen one-two punch https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-20.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-20.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 19, 2026 — NYC to require AI disclosure in real-estate listings; OpenAI trims Codex context 372k→272k https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-19.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-19.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 18, 2026 — Databricks hits $188B; Agility plants a flag in Tesla's backyard; Patreon starts blocking AI scrapers https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-18.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-18.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 17, 2026 — EU forces Google to open Android + Search; NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook; Hyundai workers strike over humanoids https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-17.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-17.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 16, 2026 — Thinking Machines drops Inkling 975B open-weights; Apple-Qwen approved for China; Codex Micro keyboard ships https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-16.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-16.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 15, 2026 — OpenAI's first device is a moving screenless speaker; Grok Build leaks codebases; Meta sued over AI layoffs https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-15.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-15.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 14, 2026 — New York enacts first US data-center moratorium; Apple's wildest OpenAI allegations land; Nadella warns AI users https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-14.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-14.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 13, 2026 — Claude Code's 33k-token overhead vs OpenCode's 7k; GPT-5.6 migration 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-13.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-13.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 12, 2026 — Mesh LLM ships distributed inference over iroh; OpenAI pushes ChatGPT deeper into families https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-12.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-12.html Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 11, 2026 — GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proves Cycle Double Cover; Apple sues OpenAI; Meta retreats on Muse Instagram feature https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-11.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-11.html Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 10, 2026 — GPT-5.6 launches; Fidji Simo steps down; NYT says OpenAI hid evidence; Musk pledges not to cut off Anthropic https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-10.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-10.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 9, 2026 — SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.5; new Grok-CSAM lawsuit; Ivy prof's in-person final crashes scores 50% https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-09.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-09.html Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 8, 2026 — Meta Muse defaults to remixing Instagram photos; DeepSeek plans own chips; GitHub AI leaks repos https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-08.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-08.html Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 7, 2026 — Anthropic outed for secret Claude tracker; Microsoft cuts 4,800; margin-collapse thesis lands after GLM 5.2 https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-07.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-07.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 6, 2026 — GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra confirmed for Codex; Amazon winds down Mechanical Turk; Dartmouth AI tutor hits 1.3 SD https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-06.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-06.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 5, 2026 — GPT-5.5 Codex hits reasoning-token clustering bug; Willison ships sqlite-utils 4 mostly from Claude Fable for $149 https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-05.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-05.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 4, 2026 — Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs; DeepMind + A24 sign a research pact; CVE spike around Mythos Preview https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-04.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-04.html Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 3, 2026 — Alibaba bans Claude Code over 'backdoor' risk; SpaceX buying Cursor; Zuckerberg admits agents lag https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-03.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-03.html Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 2, 2026 — OpenAI floats a 5% stake for Trump; Cloudflare forces AI-crawl payments; Google admits +37% electricity for AI https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-02.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-02.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT July 1, 2026 — White House drops Mythos/Fable export controls; Anthropic ships Sonnet 5 + Claude Science; Etched hits $5B https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-01.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-07-01.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT June 30, 2026 — South Korea commits $1T to memory + humanoids; California cuts an Anthropic side deal; Meta teen-chatbot scandal https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-30.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-30.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT June 29, 2026 — GLM 5.2 beats Claude on cyber benchmarks; Micron called the next Nvidia; ChatGPT logs enter a felony trial https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-29.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-29.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT June 28, 2026 — Asian startups ship Mythos-clones as Anthropic export gate drags; Apple Vision Pro exec departs for OpenAI https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-28.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-28.html Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT June 27, 2026 — US clears Anthropic Mythos for trusted orgs; OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol; government will vet who can use it https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-27.html https://sarmadi.llc/ai-digest/2026-06-27.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT