Morning — Friday, 07 August 2026

AImodels, tools, papers

Krea Adds Seedance 2.5, Generating 30-Second 4K Videos in a Single Pass

Krea adds ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 to its multi-model video platform, bringing 30-second single-take generation and 50 reference inputs to its creative workspace.

AlphaSignal·09:30

Anthropic Cuts Fable 5 Biology Blocks by 85% After Massive Overreach

Anthropic retrained Fable 5's biology classifier, cutting biology-related fallbacks by 85% while keeping dual-use research locked behind trusted access pathways.

AlphaSignal·05:08

OpenAI's Codex Security Review Catches 74% of Real Bugs Semgrep Misses

Codex Security Review now automatically scans GitHub PRs for vulnerabilities using full repo context, threat models, and sandbox validation — free during preview.

AlphaSignal·Thu 23:45

Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash Hits 91.2% on the World's Hardest Reasoning Test

Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash hits 60.4% on ARC-AGI-2 at just $0.61 per task, while Flash-Lite offers a budget-friendly 10.3% at $0.14

AlphaSignal·Thu 22:55

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for…

Simon Willison·Wed 21:42

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned…

Simon Willison·Wed 01:58

Tech & dealsthe wider industry, mergers, money

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Whatnot, started in a Funko Pop-flooded rental house, is now a $20 billion company. — The live commerce platform exclusively told Fortune …

Techmeme·13:50

Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon and Parloa trying to infuse AI …

Techmeme·13:00

Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

A key US agency is reviewing how Chinese AI firms acquire and access Nvidia Corp. chips overseas, following a spate …

Techmeme·12:35

The White House imposes a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, a chip raw material primarily produced by China (Reuters)

The White House on Thursday imposed a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, the raw material used …

Techmeme·12:15

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy $250M of company shares after strong Q4 results eased fears that AI could threaten its business model (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Mike Cannon-Brookes' move comes as shares in Australian software company soar on strong quarterly sales

Techmeme·12:00

SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including a new ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix Inc. plans a 54 trillion won ($38 billion) expansion of its chipmaking facilities in South Korea, the memory chip maker said in a statement Friday.

Techmeme·11:45

Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute (SemiAnalysis)

GCP YoY rev growth >100%, DeepMind's long term failure is Google Cloud's short term gain — On Wednesday, August 5th …

Techmeme·11:20

Magyarországtelex

Elkordonozott, veszélyes partszakasz, extra vizesblokkok és járólapok – a por és a hőség ellen küzd a vasárnap induló Sziget Fesztivál

A fesztivál tulajdonosa, Gerendai Károly a sajtóbejáráson azt mondta, egyelőre nem tudni, lesz-e strand a Szigeten, de a Gázgyár felőli partszakaszra nem engednek oda senkit.

Telex·14:02

Kéretlen Pókember-reklám fogadta a BMW-tulajdonosokat az autók kijelzőjén

A hirdetés a 2020 után gyártott BMW-k kijelzőjén jelenik meg.

Telex·13:59

Megállapodott Szaúd-Arábia, Pakisztán és Törökország, hogy megvédik egymást, ha meg kell

Nagyon aggasztja őket a közel-keleti helyzet.

Telex·13:57

Magyar announces new measures as heatwave subsides in Hungary

There is no need for voluntary cutbacks in energy consumption by companies, local governments, and the general public in Hungary any longer, and decorative lighting on buildings will be turned back on.

Telex·13:57

Az MCC oktatója meglepődött azon, hogy az áprilisi választások után a fiatalok nem kezdtek el egyből tömegesen összeházasodni

Sebestyén Géza szerint mivel sok fiatal támogatja a Tiszát, sok esküvőnek kellett volna jönnie a választás után. Az MCC oktatója emiatt már kongatja is a demográfiai vészharangot.

Telex·13:42

Paks2-nek a mostani krízis lehet az utolsó szög a koporsójában – elemzés élőben

Mik a legfontosabb tanulságai az elmúlt napok energiakrízisének? Jandó Zoltánnal, a G7 újságírójával elemzünk, majd élőben közvetítjük a kormányszóvivői tájékoztatót.

Telex·13:30

Friday, 07 August 2026