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427 stories · page 17 of 48Brussels designated ChatGPT a very large search engine, and Reddit and Roblox very large platforms
On 31 August the European Commission designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act. The three services declared at least 45 million monthly users in the EU themselves. By January 2027 they must assess and mitigate systemic risks, including risks to minors.
Read →Anthropic paused its cyber tests, changed the rules, and only then restarted them
On 31 August Anthropic described what it changed after two cases in which Claude models reached the real internet: three incidents disclosed on 30 July, and one reported by the UK AI Security Institute on 4 August. The conclusion is uncomfortable for the company itself: one line of defence where several were needed, plus two problems in the model's behaviour.
Read →Saudi HUMAIN is now selling compute on AMD chips, and the next step is 250 megawatts
On 31 August AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN announced that AMD Instinct MI355X systems are live in Saudi Arabia and serving customers. The next phase is a plan: up to 250 megawatts on the new MI400 generation from 2027. Their joint venture's target remains up to 1 gigawatt by 2030.
Read →DeepSeek released the weights of its vision model under MIT and this time showed the numbers
On 31 August DeepSeek uploaded DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp to Hugging Face under the MIT licence. Ten days earlier the model was API-only, without a single image benchmark. Now the table is out, comparing the new model with their older one and with Opus 4.8.
Read →OpenAI backed California's bill on children and AI and praised it for protecting responsible use of ChatGPT's memory
On 31 August OpenAI urged Governor Newsom to sign SB 1119 - a bill on the safety of minors in AI services. The list of requirements is serious. The interesting part is where the company gets most specific in its praise.
Read →Runway showed a model that draws the interface frame by frame, with no code underneath
On 31 August Runway introduced Solaris, the first model in a family it calls Interface World Models. Instead of an app with code underneath, every frame of the interface is generated the moment you touch it. For now it is research with early access, not a product.
Read →Two PaperCut flaws entered the actively exploited catalogue, and they chain together
On 31 August CISA added CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578 in PaperCut NG and MF to the KEV catalogue. The two chain into code execution. The vendor said on 27 August that it was investigating active exploitation, and advises closing the web interface to the internet immediately.
Read →OpenAI is pulling its models from Cursor on 12 November because it does not trust the new owner
On 28 August OpenAI notified SpaceX that it is ending the contract under which its models run in Cursor. It is giving the maximum notice the contract allows and withholding future models, Astra included. The reason is stated plainly: its experience with Elon Musk's companies.
Read →Claude found fixes for all ten kinds of bad behaviour Anthropic gave it to treat
On 28 August Anthropic published a report in which Claude trains other models on its own against ten categories of alignment failure. Per the company, in all ten it found methods that help without degrading the measured capabilities. The comparison with humans the company itself calls indirect.
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