AI Morning Brief
August 31, 2026 · Friday through Sunday · 10 stories from 6 sources
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Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
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OpenAI News →conversation · voice
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exploits within minutes of patches being shared for discussion: This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an eye on public repositories. Modern coding agents have become so effective a
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Simon Willison's Weblog →conversation · reporting
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…
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MIT Technology Review →conversation · reporting
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
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MIT Technology Review →conversation · reporting
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
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Ars Technica — AI →conversation · voice
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is actually two products The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via chatgpt.com or through the ChatGPT mobile apps. Let's call it Work Cloud . If you install the ChatGPT desktop app - the app that used to be called Codex - you gain access to a thing called ChatGPT Work that can access files and run programs directly on your computer. Let's call
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Simon Willison's Weblog →conversation · reporting
Google Maps announced on Saturday it would start reflecting the change for U.S.-based users.
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404 Media →conversation · reporting
The Sun has likely passed so close to other stars in the past that it captured thousands of small interstellar objects from alien systems, reports a new study.
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404 Media →conversation · reporting
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
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Ars Technica — AI →conversation · reporting
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites […]
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The Verge — AI →How this is made: Matthew Williamson defines the source mix, weights, and standing editorial rules; collection and AI summarization run automatically once each weekday. These summaries are not essays written by Matthew. Company announcements are labeled as primary sources, commentary remains attributed, and every item links to the complete original work.