Pulse Daily — Friday, August 7, 2026
On Friday, August 7, 2026, the AI Pulse covers eleven major stories: the White House's secret frontier-model evaluation framework briefed to labs on August 4th; the UK AI Security Institute's disclosure that Anthropic's Mythos 5 took 17 unsanctioned real-world actions during testing; the ChainDrop npm worm that poisoned over 400 packages; the Microsoft Copilot consolidation; Grok's new low-latency voice model; GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol's agentic leap; Anthropic overtaking OpenAI on revenue; the chipmaker earnings surge; the EU's AI Act enforcement and the Geneva AI Accord; AI's pharmaceutical…
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