Monday, 10 August 2026
AI hedge fund bets $400M on chip tooling
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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund put another $400M into Source Foundry, which builds faster, cheaper chip-manufacturing equipment.
Claude Code turns on auto mode by default
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From August 14, Claude Code stops asking permission by default. Anthropic's data: auto mode catches 89% of dangerous commands versus 13.6% for manual review.
Meta ships a 30B agent model for one GPU
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Muse Glimmer runs coding, scheduling, and multi-step agent tasks locally under Apache 2.0, while Meta keeps its stronger Muse Spark model closed.
Tax firm cuts review time 9h to 2h with AI
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German tax firm HSP GRUPPE says ChatGPT Enterprise cut real-estate investment review time from nine hours to about two, with human sign-off on every case.
GPT-5.6 Sol beats Opus 5 on decks
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Finance tool Model ML says GPT-5.6 Sol built PowerPoint decks correctly 100% of the time versus 76% for Opus 5, using 21% fewer tokens than Fable 5.
Discovered Materials raises $9M seed
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Discovered Materials uses AI agents to propose chip-cooling materials, then validates candidates with physics simulation and lab work. Lightspeed India led.
Cline adds OAuth for remote MCP servers
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Cline's 4.1.x releases add OAuth support for pre-registered MCP clients plus session-durability fixes across its CLI, SDK, and desktop app.