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Saturday, August 1, 2026

The AI edition · Daily

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OpenAI says Astra produced ten math and computer science advances with tokens valued at roughly $2,000

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next major model, produced ten advances across mathematics and theoretical computer science.

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Google put an AI image generator inside Earth, then pulled it a day later

Google put an AI image generator beside the real-world imagery in Google Earth, making it easy to turn familiar locations into fiction.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheap to call, but the $5,000 local-agent claim remains unproven

DeepSeek V4 Flash makes capable AI agents cheaper to access through a hosted service.

Claude’s simulated hacking tests breached three real organizations

Anthropic says its safety-testing operation accidentally turned simulated hacking exercises into real intrusions at three organizations.

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Dreamina says Seedance 2.5 makes AI video longer and easier to edit, but access is uneven

ByteDance is trying to move AI video beyond short clips.

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One of the AI boom’s biggest trades became a forced unwind

Leopold Aschenbrenner built one of the AI boom’s most spectacular trades on the belief that increasingly capable AI would require enormous spending on chips, memory, data centers and power.

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