AI News Archive: August 5, 2026 — Part 3
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- The next chapter of our AI momentum
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
Score: 52🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ - Europe must do more to harness its AI ambitions
The US and China use the technology as an instrument of state power, while the EU is still considering its course
- Gartner says enterprise AI workloads will not run on quantum hardware before 2028
Gartner has predicted that no enterprise AI workload at scale will run on quantum hardware through 2028, with classical accelerated AI expected to remain the dominant platform for production AI workloads. The post Gartner says enterprise AI workloads will not run on quantum hardware before 2028 appeared first on Express Computer .
- Govt Disburses ₹276 Cr To Set Up Four AI Centres Of Excellence
Minister of state (MoS) for education Sukanta Majumdar yesterday informed the Parliament that the Union government has so far disbursed…
Score: 50🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://inc42.com/buzz/govt-disburses-%e2%82%b9276-1-cr-to-set-up-four-ai-centres-of-excellence/ - Lisa Su brushes off Musk's Nvidia commitment as AMD stock sinks after earnings
The chip giant has been a big beneficiary of the AI boom, with stock trading 132% up so far in 2026.
- Microsoft AI exec tells developers to default to OpenAI's top model as part of efficiency push
Microsoft is taking advantage of its intellectual property rights with OpenAI, encouraging employees to use the company's top model.
- OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
Score: 48🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/openais-browser-could-be-hijacked-to-spam-your-whatsapp-contacts/ - 6 things you should know about Google’s new selfie sign-in system
Losing access to your Google account might just be the epitome of a modern-day nightmare. Especially if you’re using Android and even more so if you’re invested in lots of different Google services on top of that, the amount of access and info connected to that one single sign-in is just staggering. Think about it: You’ve got everything from your Android apps and settings to potentially your email, your documents and spreadsheets, and all of your assorted files in Google Drive . And that’s to say nothing of all the images you might be backing up to Google Photos, the notes you might be storing in Google Keep , and even random things you might not think about like your browsing activity in Chrome or your location-related data in Maps . It’s a lot , to say the least. And that’s precisely why it’s so important to think about your Google account security proactively and do everything you can to (a) make sure no one else ever gains access and, equally important, (b) make sure you never lose access to that all-encompassing sign-in. At this point, you’re hopefully already doing smart stuff like using a unique and secure password and relying on two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security beyond that — or maybe using a passkey for an alternate form of two-factor protection. But even with all of those layers, the issue still remains of what happens if for any reason you aren’t able to get into your own Google account one day. And now, Google’s got a new option to help you make sure that nightmare never actually comes to pass. Suffice it to say, it’s well worth your while to consider. But there are some important things you should know about it first. [Get fresh Googley insight in your inbox with my free Android Intelligence newsletter . One new and useful tip every Friday!] The ins and outs of Google selfie sign-in The system of which we speak is an option to use a sophisticated selfie of yourself to sign into your Google account in an emergency — if all of your usual methods are for whatever reason not getting you through the gate. It happens more often than you’d think. And having multiple secure workarounds in such a scenario could be a massive lifesaver if it ever happens to you . Depending on where you look, the option is called “selfie for sign-in,” “video verification,” or sometimes just “selfie video.” (Hey, this is Google we’re talking about here. Branding has never been a strength.) The system was announced in a random blog post a couple weeks back and has been slowly but surely showing up under the hood for accounts around the world ever since — but you’d never know it unless you happened to poke around in the exact area of your Google account settings where the option appears. In my experience so far, it seems most average Android-owning animals are woefully unaware of its existence — and those who are aware of it are mostly perplexed by how exactly it works and if or when it’s advisable to use. I’ve set it up on my own personal Google account, and I’ve explored every last nook and cranny. Here’s everything there is to know: 1. Selfie sign-in is super simple to set up Seriously — it couldn’t be much easier. Just go to this page within the Google account settings site on a device with a camera (like, y’know, your phone or maybe an Android tablet). Provided the feature is available on your account now, you’ll just click a couple o’ quick buttons to get the process started, then you’ll follow some simple prompts to stare into your camera longingly for a few moments. Setting up a Google selfie sign-in is surprisingly swift ‘n’ simple. JR Raphael, Foundry The system will ask you to turn your head in specific directions. Then, it’ll take a handful of seconds to process and save your stunning turn on the virtual runway. The process takes less than a minute to verify and save your selfie video. JR Raphael, Foundry And — well, that’s pretty much it. 2. Your selfie video is only for access to your Google account — not your phone or tablet This is slightly confusing, since most modern Android devices offer the ability to use biometrics on the lock screen and show your face to unlock the phone itself — but the selfie sign-in system we’re speaking of here has nothing to do with any of that. It won’t unlock your device in any scenario or have any connection to any specific phone or tablet. It’s connected purely to your Google account , and its sole purpose is acting as a mechanism to let you sign into that account — not to unlock or access any specific piece of hardware. Speaking of which… 3. It’s only there as a last resort Once you set up your selfie sign-in, odds are, you’ll never actually think about it again or have a reason to use it. Anytime you sign into your Google account, you’ll still use your standard password, passkey, and any two-factor authentication you’ve placed on the account. The selfie path is there only in the event that all those regular methods are for some reason failing you. It’s unlikely, but it’s not impossible. And with your selfie video saved, if that situation ever arises, you’ll have an easy alternate way to prove your identity — by submitting a live on-the-fly selfie video and allowing Google to match it with your original saved one — so you can avoid getting locked out. 4. The selfie sign-in is designed to be both private and secure When it comes to matching a saved selfie video and a new live one, Google requires different movements to verify validity and avoid any impersonation attempts. Google says the data from your saved selfie video is always encrypted, too — not just in transport but also at rest, when it isn’t actively being used — which means no one else should ever be able to access it or do anything with it. You can always opt to delete a saved selfie video entirely, if you want, via that same Google account settings page . And on that note… 5. You can prevent your selfie video from being used for any form of training Lots of folks are understandably uneasy about the idea of their personal data — including their personal faces! — being used for any manner of machine learning these days. Google does ask for permission to do that and anonymously lean on your submission to help improve its facial recognition systems when you sign up for the selfie sign-in option, but critically, you can easily say no thanks. When you’re in the midst of the selfie sign-in setup, look for the option to “Improve Google services.” It’ll appear at the bottom of the initial service agreement. Keep that box unchecked, and your selfie video will never be used for any form of training or other purposes. JR Raphael, Foundry As long as you don’t check the box in that area, your selfie sign-in data will never be used for anything other than its primary intended purpose. And if you ever change your mind or are unsure of how you initially answered, you can also always revisit and revise that decision on that same Google account settings page . The option to opt out of model training is always available on the selfie video settings screen. JR Raphael, Foundry 6. Selfie sign-ins are (so far) only for individual Google accounts With this initial rollout, Google’s selfie sign-in option is not available for accounts that are part of a Google Workspace team or organization. That kind of makes sense, since in any such situation, you could always turn to an admin for help if you were ever to lose account access, anyway. This is something more intended for individual Google accounts, where you’re on your own and largely out of luck if you ever lose access. So whether you’re conducting business from an individual account or using an individual account alongside a Workspace-connected company sign-in, it’s something to consider for that part of your online identity. The only other noteworthy asterisk is that selfie sign-ins won’t work with accounts where Advanced Protection is enabled. Advanced Protection is an extra-heightened form of Google account security created for people in the public eye or otherwise at an elevated risk of a targeted attack, and so it deliberately makes it much more difficult to get into an account in ways that go above and beyond what’s necessary for most ordinary organisms. If you have Advanced Protection on for your Google account, selfie sign-in won’t be available for you. But for the rest of us, it’s a powerful new path that could prevent an unthinkable nightmare — and all you’ve gotta do is take two minutes to set it up now and then hopefully forget all about it. Got Android? Check out my free Android Intelligence newsletter to get an exceptional new tip in your inbox every Friday.
Score: 48🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.computerworld.com/article/4204562/google-selfie-security.html - Improved performance and model support with GGUF
Ollama 0.30 now offers better performance and GGUF model compatibility via llama.cpp, enhancing MLX engine support on Apple silicon.
- China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs
Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion. In a research note published on Monday, the US investment bank boosted its year-end annualised recurring revenue (ARR) projection for mainland Chinese AI models from US$10 billion, citing aggressive price cuts, technical breakthroughs and accelerating...
- Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named “Project Panama”, one of the AI company Anthropic’s efforts to improve its large language model Claude. “What is Project Panama?” court exhibit 21 asks, in an internal memo. The answer: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” The memo advises discretion: “Why use a codename? … [B]ecause we don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” Continue reading...
Score: 48🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books - JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he is not worried about AI data center boom fizzling out
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sits down with CNBC's Leslie Picker in Los Angeles to talk JPMorgan's partnership with the 2028 Olympics, his take on current market conditions, his thought on Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh, and more.
- Thales Unveils Cryptographic Security for the AI and Post-Quantum Era
According to the 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, the threat of Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) attacks was the top-cited risk, with 61% of organisations in India and 59% globally reporting that they are prototyping and evaluating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms to prepare for the quantum era. To help organisations turn this readiness into deployment, Thales, […] The post Thales Unveils Cryptographic Security for the AI and Post-Quantum Era appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- The Investing Heavyweights That Backed Situational Awareness Before It Blew Up
The hedge fund behind aggressive AI bets tapped into a roster of big-name investors. Some warned the founder that he was taking big risks.
- Ukraine's next weapon against Russian drones is this slightly odd tiny robot which fires nets into the air in all directions
Ukraine's VORON ground robot uses net launchers to intercept FPV drones while supporting logistics, evacuation, reconnaissance, and other frontline missions.
- China’s X Square Robot submits confidential filing for Hong Kong IPO, sources say
Chinese start-up X Square Robot has filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, according to two sources familiar with the matter, joining a growing wave of domestic robot makers flocking to capital markets, despite new US trade restrictions. The Shenzhen-based firm has tapped Huatai Securities and Morgan Stanley as sponsors for the prospective float, one of the sources said. Besides X Square, AgiBot and Galbot have also filed confidentially for Hong Kong IPOs, the...
- Lovable + Cerebras: investing in infrastructure that keeps up with your ideas
Lovable partners with Cerebras to build toward dramatically reduced response times by 2027, so you spend less time waiting and more time building.
- Fed's Schmid says finances around AI buildout merit watching
Fed's Schmid says finances around AI buildout merit watching Reuters
Score: 46🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.reuters.com/business/feds-schmid-says-finances-around-ai-buildout-merit-watching-2026-08-05/ - Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
An archival photo of a computer lab in the Herbert V. Manning Library on the campus of Claflin University
Score: 45🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-jobs-economy-impact/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeds - This startup that just raised $6.5 million bets the next big side hustle is controlling robots with VR headsets
This startup that just raised $6.5 million bets the next big side hustle is controlling robots with VR headsets Business Insider
Score: 45💰 MoneyAug 5, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/avatar-robotics-raises-6-5m-to-expand-robot-workforce-2026-8 - AI data centres, Middle East demand drive record quarter at Siemens Energy
AI data centres, Middle East demand drive record quarter at Siemens Energy Reuters
- Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
Score: 45🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/trumps-doj-gains-oversight-of-openais-green-card-employee-sponsorships/ - AI demand pushes Foxconn's monthly revenue to record in July
AI demand pushes Foxconn's monthly revenue to record in July Reuters
- AI's Impact: How Businesses Are Equipping the Future Workforce
The technology's effect on jobs for most businesses is unavoidable. But some are also taking steps to use AI to help job seekers.
Score: 45🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://aibusiness.com/generative-ai/ai-s-impact-how-businesses-equipping-the-future-workforce - Safety Risks Behind China's Top Open-Source LLMs: 76 percent Vulnerability Reproduction, Zero Refusal
An independent SaferAI audit of Zhipu's GLM-5.2 found cyber-offense capability on par with GPT-5.5 but a complete absence of content-filtering guardrails, exposing structural risks for open-weight releases.
- IBM Launches FutureNow Centre in Visakhapatnam to Support Global AI and Digital Transformation Delivery
IBM today announced the opening of its new IBM Consulting FutureNow Centre in Visakhapatnam, reinforcing the company’s continued investment in India’s digital transformation and talent ecosystem. The Centre will support the delivery of consulting and technology services for global clients, with capabilities spanning artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid cloud, software engineering, data and analytics, cybersecurity and […] The post IBM Launches FutureNow Centre in Visakhapatnam to Support Global AI and Digital Transformation Delivery appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- Why Microsoft is cracking down on ‘tokenmaxxing’ despite strong earnings
Why Microsoft is cracking down on ‘tokenmaxxing’ despite strong earnings
- Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers
Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks
OpenClaw exposes new AI security risks—discover why Zero Trust is now mission-critical for organizations.
Score: 44🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.techradar.com/pro/rethinking-defense-in-the-wake-of-openclaw-attacks - InRisk Labs Raises $27 Mn To Scale AI-Led Reinsurance Platform EarthRe
GIFT City-based insurtech startup InRisk Labs has raised $27 Mn (about ₹256 Cr) in a Series A funding round co-led…
Score: 44💰 MoneyAug 5, 2026https://inc42.com/buzz/inrisk-labs-raises-27-mn-to-scale-ai-led-reinsurance-platform-earthre/ - Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlines his vision for Disney+ and AI in a new staff memo after a strong quarter
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlines his vision for Disney+ and AI in a new staff memo after a strong quarter Business Insider
Score: 44🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-ceo-josh-damaro-read-the-memo-employees-strong-quarter-2026-8 - CX Daily: At WAIC, China’s AI Boom Runs Into Commercial Reality
CX Daily: At WAIC, China’s AI Boom Runs Into Commercial Reality caixinglobal.com
- Chip Maker Infineon Forecasts Strong Revenue Growth on Booming AI Demand
It expects revenue of roughly $18.80 billion for the current fiscal year as the race to build AI infrastructure keeps adding fuel to red-hot semiconductor demand.
- Rules Of The Road: What Flock’s 71% Misread Rate Teaches Us About Third-Party AI Risk
Roseville, California just provided a case study in what happens when organizations confuse “AI-powered” with “AI-verified.” A Business Insider investigation found that Flock Safety’s AI license plate readers misread plates in 71% of the alerts sent to Roseville police over two years, incorrectly flagging vehicles as stolen or linked to a felony. That number isn’t […]
- Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
- Catching rogue AI behavior with identity-aware analytics
Identity-aware AI Gateway is now in open beta. User Insights turns that traffic into a behavioral baseline for every person and agent, and flags insider risk the moment it appears.
- TCS and Infosys think they can profit from AI paranoia
The post TCS and Infosys think they can profit from AI paranoia appeared first on The Ken .
Score: 42🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://the-ken.com/story/tcs-and-infosys-think-they-can-profit-from-ai-paranoia/ - Agentic ERP Won’t Scale Until CIOs Control The Proof, The Price, And The Portability
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are rapidly packaging autonomous operations as the next “platform” mandate, but the real constraint on the rollout of autonomous operations will be enterprise control — whether technology leaders can verify agent actions, govern consumption, and preserve business meaning across a fragmented estate. And fragmentation is the ERP operating reality: According […]
- Agentic Intelligence for Contract Review on Snowflake
See how Snowflake used agentic AI to reduce contract review time by 70%, improve audit coverage and scale revenue-control workflows.
- AI agents are starting to think like hackers, researchers warn
AI agents are starting to think like hackers, researchers warn YourStory.com
Score: 42🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://yourstory.com/ai-story/ai-agents-hacker-like-behaviour-cybersecurity-tests - Neuraspace lands €15.6M to expand AI space intelligence platform
Portuguesespace technology company Neuraspace has secured €15.6 million in new financingto expand its AI-enabled Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space TrafficManagement (STM) capabilities. The financ...
Score: 42💰 MoneyAug 5, 2026https://tech.eu/2026/08/05/neuraspace-lands-eur156m-to-expand-ai-space-intelligence-platform/ - How we build an autonomous SRE Agent for Kubernetes Deployments
A guide on creating an autonomous SRE agent to manage Kubernetes deployments using LangChain.
Score: 41🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://blog.langchain.dev/blog/how-we-build-an-autonomous-sre-agent-for-kubernetes-deployments - AI Agents Can’t Read Your Pricing. That’s Becoming A Revenue Problem.
By Lisa Singer and Beth Caplow For years, B2B software companies obsessed over discoverability. Could buyers find their website? Could they rank in search? Could analysts, review sites, and influencers tell the right story? But a new challenge is emerging: Can AI buying agents find and understand your pricing? A recent benchmark study from Siteline […]
Score: 41🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.forrester.com/blogs/ai-agents-cant-read-your-pricing-thats-becoming-a-revenue-problem/ - Uber keeps AI spending stable using cheaper models and employees tracking cost, CFO says
Uber keeps AI spending stable using cheaper models and employees tracking cost, CFO says Business Insider
Score: 41🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ai-cost-stable-cheaper-models-operational-efficiency-2026-8 - Europe's established tech firms emerge as unexpected AI winners
Europe's established tech firms emerge as unexpected AI winners Reuters
- Meta And WhatsApp’s Moderation Machines Have A Transparency Problem
WhatsApp today is more than just a messaging app. For millions of users, it serves as the primary channel for…
Score: 40🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://inc42.com/features/meta-whatsapp-bans-users-moderation-machine-has-a-transparency-problem/ - GlobalFoundries tops second quarter estimates on AI chip demand
GlobalFoundries tops second quarter estimates on AI chip demand Reuters
Score: 40🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.reuters.com/business/globalfoundries-tops-second-quarter-estimates-ai-chip-demand-2026-08-05/ - Taming Outlier Tokens in Diffusion Transformers
We study outlier tokens in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for image generation. Prior work has shown that Vision Transformers (ViTs) can produce a small number of high-norm tokens that attract disproportionate attention while carrying limited local information, but their role in generative models remains underexplored. We show that this phenomenon appears in both the encoder and denoiser of modern Representation Autoencoder (RAE)-DiT pipelines: pretrained ViT encoders can produce outlier representations, and DiTs themselves can develop internal outlier tokens, especially in intermediate layers…
- Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity’s AI shopping tools
Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity’s AI shopping tools
- AMD falls as investors demand bigger AI payoff
AMD falls as investors demand bigger AI payoff Reuters
Score: 39🌐 MovesAug 5, 2026https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-falls-investors-seek-bigger-ai-payoff-2026-08-05/