Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Google's brain drain got messier. Links Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (CNBC) Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model exploited a vulnerability in another third-party service during cybersecurity testing, after evaluations firm Irregular caused the misconfiguration (The Information) OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks (Wired) Rockstar says it will show an "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET (The Verge) Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role (Semafor) Sources: Google researchers are frustrated over compute access as Cloud sells TPUs to rivals like Anthropic, amid an exodus that now includes all eight "Attention Is All You Need" authors (CNBC) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.
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