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Auto mode arrives, Meta's Muse Glimmer, beyond the transformer - August 10, 2026
Anthropic makes auto mode the default in Claude Code, Meta open-sources a 30B local agent model, OpenAI locks down Astra over cyber capability, and a bad week for AI test sandboxes.
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Intro
Anthropic makes auto mode the default in Claude Code
https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-codeMeta ships Muse Glimmer, a 30B open weights local agent model
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-modelThe startups betting the transformer is not the end of the road
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141511/these-startups-are-chasing-the-next-big-thing-in-llms/OpenAI locks down Astra over critical cyber capability
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/10/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capabilities/When the safety test becomes the safety risk
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk/Black Hat, DEF CON and BSides 2026: four threads
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/the-top-highlights-from-black-hat-def-con-and-bsides-las-vegas-2026-if-you-couldnt-make-it-in-person/GitHub extends Dependabot malware alerts to eight ecosystems
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/10/github-dependabot-malware-alerts/What happened to HackerOne
https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/GitHub Models is retired
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/github-models-is-now-retired/A thousand revisions in eighty kilobytes
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/9/sqlite-text-history-prototype/Sign-off
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