2026-08-05

I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Android phone - 3 system diagnostics to check for free

The hidden diagnostic file breaks down all the logging your Pixel, Samsung, or even Motorola does daily. Here's what you can learn from it. [...]

2026-08-05

Senate committee advances Kids Online Safety Act in push to regulate social media

The bipartisan bill would require social media platforms to exercise reasonable care to avoid harming minors, but faces a House standoff over a key provision [...]

2026-08-05

Google's chief scientist is leaving after 27 years to launch his own AI startup

Dean is departing alongside three other Google veterans to build an AI-for-science startup backed by Google as an investor and cloud partner [...]

2026-08-05

Trump administration has refunded $100 billion in scrapped IEEPA tariffs

The $100 billion represents about 60% of the roughly $166 billion collected under the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February [...]

2026-08-05

Anthropic Puts Inline Data Loss Prevention Inside Claude Enterprise

Anthropic launched inference hooks on August 5, 2026, a beta feature for Claude Enterprise that routes every employee prompt through the organization's own security server for an allow-or-deny verdict before the model ever sees it. The system, described in Anthropic's announcement, extends the kind of inline data loss prevention that security teams already run on email and web traffic to [...]

2026-08-05

The next ad market may be built for machines

‘Time’ magazine’s ads for bots offer publishers new revenue while raising questions about disclosure and AI influence. [...]

2026-08-05

Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 against two working open-source software developers who had no connection to the experiment.Unable to so [...]

2026-08-05

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-05

Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.

Google confirmed in emails to users that Assistant on Android phones will shut down starting September 4, forcing everyone to Gemini. The process may take several weeks to complete, so holdouts may get a brief extension, but the direction is final. The original plan was to retire Assistant in late 2025. Google delayed to shore […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]