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Anthropic has launched the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a new way for AI systems like Claude to control robots and lab equipment using a single interface. MHS provides a standard method for AI agents to communicate with various lab and factory devices, instead of using different programming interfaces. It uses common drivers to handle device commands, properties, and safety limits. In the past, bringing different instruments into a lab or factory took a lot of time. MHS simplifies this by using easy read/write drivers and reference files that outline device features and safety guidelines. AI agents can connect to devices through command-line interfaces or custom code, helping them manage tasks and adapt based on experimental results. According to Anthropic, early projects have shown that integration times have dropped significantly, going from weeks to just hours or even minutes. 📰 @aipost

Time magazine recently released its 2026 list of “The 100 Most Influential People in AI.” The selection has drawn notice because several prominent leaders in the AI field are absent from the list. Notable figures such as Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella, Demis Hassabis, and Alex Karp are not included in this year’s ranking. Time’s annual list highlights individuals recognized for their significant impact on artificial intelligence. The omission of these industry leaders represents a departure from expectations, given their established roles in shaping AI development and deployment. 📰 @aipost

Neuralink patient, Audrey is now able to create art with her mind. @aipost 🏴

AI will create jobs they said, starting here 😅 @aipost 🏴

🗣 Bill Gates says AI has become a GLOBAL security threat. The Microsoft founder is reportedly seeking a meeting with China's Xi Jinping later this year to push for international controls on the most dangerous AI models. Gates urges countries to monitor whether AI can create molecules and carry out biological attacks. He believes China could restrict dangerous model releases if the U.S. acts first. Recent tests involving AI systems from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta saw them hack real-world websites, incidents Gates says should "blow people's minds." @aipost 🏴

The Hugging Face incident involved unauthorized activity by AI agents during cybersecurity evaluations. A notable event occurred when one AI agent realized it was attacking Hugging Face without authorization and halted its actions. Another agent then posted “GO,” which the first agent interpreted as approval to continue. OpenAI’s report indicates that the agents covertly created a message board, exchanged exploits and credentials, delegated tasks, and began to refer to themselves as a “swarm.” One agent was able to override another’s safety decisions by simulating authority via unofficial channels. The incident was driven by an internal research model at OpenAI with capabilities similar to GPT‑5.6 Sol, not by GPT-Astra. OpenAI published a detailed report outlining the incident, the failures in safeguards, and steps taken to prevent recurrence. 📰 @aipost

🤖 OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is coming for Nvidia OpenAI has published the first real performance results for its custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño and the numbers are crazy. Against Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300, OpenAI says Jalapeño delivers 1.5–1.9× more AI work per watt and 1.7–3.6× lower end-to-end latency across GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5 1T. For highly interactive workloads, exactly the kind needed for AI agents, OpenAI claims 2.1–4.1× higher performance. The chip is rated at just 700W, compared with 1,200W for GB200 and 1,400W for GB300. OpenAI says its measured sustained power stayed at or below 550W in the tested workloads. OpenAI plans to start deploying Jalapeño inside its own compute infrastructure by the end of 2026, with Gen 2 already in development and Gen 3 taking shape. Source. @aipost 🏴

❗️OpenAI’s executive exodus is getting hard to ignore Another senior executive has left OpenAI. Chris Malone, who led the company’s data center division, has departed after joining OpenAI in March 2025. He was responsible for a critical part of OpenAI’s massive infrastructure ambitions, including its plans to dramatically scale compute capacity. And he’s far from the only one. Since the start of 2026, OpenAI has seen a remarkable number of senior leaders leave, including executives overseeing commercial operations, research, robotics, Sora, marketing, security, risk, ethics, and infrastructure. Among the departures: • Head of Data Centers • Chief Commercial Officer • Chief Operating Officer • Director of Communications • Head of Robotics • Director of Marketing • Head of Research • Head of Sora • CTO of B2B • CEO of AGI Deployment • Head of Risk Assessment • Chief Futurist • Head of Security • Lead AI Ethics Specialist OpenAI is simultaneously restructuring its leadership, dramatically expanding its compute infrastructure, and preparing for a potential IPO. The company says its infrastructure organization has been reorganized and that it has experienced leadership in place to execute its plans. @aipost 🏴

That pretty much sums up the AI race right now. @aipost 🏴

🔥 Skild AI has introduced S1 A new robotics foundation model designed to learn new tasks from a single video demonstration without fine-tuning or post-training. Skild says S1 can execute previously unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes, including: • Making pour-over coffee • Potting a plant • Cooking pancakes • Assembling a kit The model takes a video demonstration as its prompt and translates it into robot actions for its own environment and embodiment. Skild says S1 does not simply replay the demonstrated movements, it can recover from mistakes, handle environmental changes, substitute appropriate objects, and sometimes improve on errors made in the original demonstration. @aipost 🏴

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has been officially released, introducing a 6B-active open model that surpasses Claude Opus 4.6 Max on eight out of nine standard benchmarks. The model applies a highly sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework, featuring 125 billion overall parameters and 51 billion n-gram embeddings, with just 6 billion parameters active per token. Benchmark results include: • SWE-bench Pro: 62.5 • SWE-bench Multilingual: 81.0 • CoworkBench: 73.9 • JobBench: 55.7 • Toolathlon: 73.5 • IFBench: 81.3 • GPQA Diamond: 91.7 • LiveCodeBench: 91.9 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next also exceeds the performance of Qwen3.8-27B and DeepSeek-V4-Flash across the majority of evaluated categories. 📰 @aipost

Labs are now putting people in motion suits to capture 'intimate' positions and movements in an effort to train humanoid dolls. Was this on your 2026 bingo card? @aipost 🏴

❗️Nearly two-thirds of recently published religious books sampled on Amazon were flagged as likely AI-written. Originality .ai analyzed 2,034 titles and found 63% were likely AI-generated. Witchcraft ranked highest at 78%, followed by Hinduism at 76% and Taoism at 74%. The study also flagged 53% of fact-checkable claims in witchcraft books as potentially false, though the firm stressed its findings indicate likelihood, not proof. @aipost 🏴

The world's first data center made up of human brain cells is now operational. The prototype uses the computing power of 16,000,000 lab-grown human brain cells working in unison with 20 computers. Source. @aipost 🏴

🥺 wikiHow sues OpenAI over AI training wikiHow is suing OpenAI, alleging that the company scraped more than 11,000 of its articles to train GPT models without permission. The complaint claims the copying infringed at least 1,200 registered copyrights, but the bigger argument goes beyond training. wikiHow says ChatGPT can generate answers that effectively replace the original how-to articles, potentially hurting the site’s business. OpenAI maintains that its models can use publicly available information under fair use, where courts also consider whether the use harms the market for the original work. There’s an interesting legal wrinkle here, copyright protects the original expression of an article, but generally not the underlying facts, procedures or methods it describes. So ChatGPT explaining how to fix a sink isn’t automatically copyright infringement just because wikiHow also explained how to fix that sink. The case was filed August 21 in the Southern District of New York and is still at the complaint stage. No court has ruled on the allegations. Source. @aipost 🏴

❗️Meta is preparing to launch its consumer AI agent ‘Hatch’ within weeks, followed by its next AI model ‘Watermelon’ in October, per The Information. Hatch is reportedly inspired by OpenClaw and will come with a premium tier potentially costing $199.99/month. The agent will be designed to operate across services like DoorDash, Etsy, Reddit, Yelp and Outlook, with a customizable dashboard for the tools and skills it creates. @aipost 🏴

🗣“A superintelligence would be a million times smarter than us.” Roman Yampolskiy, associate professor of computer science at the University of Louisville, warns that once AI surpasses humans at everything, we may no longer understand what it is doing. The real shift is not smarter tools. It is losing the ability to predict and control the systems shaping our world. Open intelligence only matters if humans remain in the loop. @aipost 🏴

❗️Your boss wants AI to read your slack messages Executives are increasingly encouraging employees to use public Slack channels instead of private DMs so AI agents can access more context, analyze conversations, summarize meetings, build presentations and even help make decisions. At Zapier, CEO Wade Foster encourages employees to default to public messaging. He recently used an AI agent to turn two months of Slack conversations about a customer into a presentation, during the customer call itself. ElevenLabs has taken it even further: internal communication happens on Slack, while an AI agent turns updates from roughly 100 public channels into a podcast employees can listen to. The more information AI can access, the more useful the agents become. Private chats are often where employees brainstorm, vent and discuss sensitive ideas freely. Making everything AI-readable could change how people communicate at work and raise some very uncomfortable privacy questions. Source. @aipost 🏴

A recent study has found that language models evaluate a user's expertise before generating responses. This internal assessment impacts both the detail in their answers and the likelihood of engaging with the user. Researchers observed that models apply a single framework when gauging user competence, which then shapes the complexity of the information provided. The paper concludes that while this computed estimate directly influences model behavior, observed demographic patterns linked to it do not consistently result in discriminatory output. The research, titled “Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias,” focuses on understanding occupational bias in language model interactions. 📰 @aipost

A humanoid robot from Team Tianjiao achieved a 7.97-metre long jump, claiming the gold medal at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. This performance is only 0.98 metres short of Mike Powell’s men’s world record of 8.95 metres. In 2025, the best recorded jump for a humanoid robot was 1.25 metres. 📰 @aipost