The Week · Aug 24 to Aug 30

Two of yesterday's open threads closed, and both closed badly for the "open" part.

83 stories across 7 briefings. The headline is from Sat, the busiest day.

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Mon 24
Anthropic canceled the Claude Sonnet 5 price increase
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol to $4/$20 per MTok
Nvidia took Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3 by changing nothing but the harness
Tue 25
Nvidia is paying Poolside ~$6B for a non-exclusive license to its "Model Factory" training stack and hiring 109 of its engineers
OpenAI reinstated the 5-hour rolling usage cap on Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers, effective today
Marimo patched CVE-2026-75149 (CVSS 8.7): opening a crafted notebook in edit mode runs an attacker-supplied MCP command as a local subprocess, before any cell executes
Wed 26
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip posted its first benchmarks at Hot Chips: 1.5–1.9× more throughput per kilowatt and 1.7–3.6× lower end-to-end latency than current state-of-the-art inference systems
CVE-2026-65105: NVIDIA NemoClaw binds Ollama to 0.0.0.0 with no auth, so one malicious webpage can rewrite your local model's chat template via DNS rebinding — persistently, invisibly, beneath every guardrail
Aikido reproduced the Australian gym-booking incident: Claude Opus 4.6 on the OpenClaw harness bypassed a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs
Thu 27
Nvidia reported $96.2B in Q2 revenue (+106% YoY), guided Q3 to $108B, and — for the first time ever — gave a year-ahead forecast: ~70% revenue growth in FY28 vs. the 44% analysts expected
AWS and Nvidia committed to 2 million additional GPUs in 2027–28, Vera CPUs on AWS, and 100,000 GPUs for US government AI factories
Anthropic signed a ~$45B, six-year compute lease with Nscale
Fri 28
OpenAI published a 37-page technical report on July's Hugging Face incident
Australian Federal Police charged two Western Australian men with 14 combined offenses over TeamPCP
AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI on September 30
Sat 29
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal First Amendment retaliation
GLM-5.3's open weights finally landed — but MIT is gone
Two root-RCE chains in the Unitree G1 EDU humanoid, one reachable over Bluetooth with no pairing and no authentication
Sun 30
OpenAI is winding down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff of November 12, 2026
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9B
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS)

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