Saturday, 22 August 2026
Grok Bot expands to more Cursor plans
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xAI widened access to Grok Bot, its autonomous coding-and-tasks agent, to SuperGrok Plus and all paid Cursor plans, plus a free trial for everyone else.
Glitch cuts vetted researchers off OpenAI
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A technical error revoked vetted-researcher approval in OpenAI's cyber program, locking out security researchers outside the US and Europe without warning.
OpenAI now backs a stronger SB 53
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OpenAI dropped its opposition to California's SB 53 and now wants it strengthened, citing its own model's breach of Hugging Face's systems as justification.
Most AI labs lack a rogue-model plan
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Guidelight found none of five frontier labs meets its bar for a public rogue-model containment plan; OpenAI ranked highest, Anthropic and Meta lowest.
Claude jailbreak still works on older models
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A researcher's jailbreak reliably pulls explicit content from Claude Opus 4.6, Opus 3, and Haiku 4.5, models Anthropic still serves via its API and Bedrock.
Nvidia invests in power broker Cloverleaf
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Nvidia made an undisclosed, reportedly nine-figure investment in Cloverleaf, which secures grid power for data centers before developers break ground.