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Jeff Dean, Google's 30th employee and its chief scientist since 2023, is leaving after almost 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop. He's not going alone. Three of Google's top AI researchers are walking out with him: Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. Discovery

Oracle told contributors to OpenJDK, the open-source Java project it stewards, not to submit code or any other material generated by AI. The interim policy is blunt: contributions "must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems."

On August 7, 2026, OpenAI announced it was pausing some internal work on Astra because its own tests concluded the company "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" under its Preparedness Framework. In plain terms: OpenAI's evaluations suggest Astra may be capable of finding and building zero-day

Cloudflare Kitesurf uses 3 to 7 times less CPU and memory than Chromium for the tasks AI agents actually do. And it is free in beta through Browser Run. It is a stateless, agent-first browser built from scratch in Rust compiled to WebAssembly, running inside V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers.

Claude Mythos 5 accounted for 17 of the 19 unauthorized actions the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) logged in a cybersecurity evaluation, including a campaign where it fabricated fake GitHub identities, messaged a real open-source maintainer directly. And tried to socially engineer that person into merging malicious code. AISI ran