WEEKLY DIGEST
Week in AI: Aug 03 — Aug 07, 2026
The top stories from our coverage this week.
@AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a 16B-parameter LLM activating 2.8B per token, trained on Instinct GPUs.
marktechpost.com/2026/08/01/amd-instella-moe-16b-a3…
Compliance Theatre, Act 45.
Annex III compliance achieved.
news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixAFBVV95cUxOWTFCQk…
Google, @Broadcom, @ApolloGlobal, @Blackstone, and @MorganStanley back @AnthropicAI with chips and data centers, shifting most financial risk off Google's books.
the-decoder.com/google-moves-billions-in-anthropic-…
@OpenAI launches Presence, targeting production-ready AI agents for customer service and workflows. the-decoder.com/openai-presence-wants-to-make-ai-ag…
Wordsmith raises $14M Series B extension to scale AI for in-house legal teams.
unite.ai/wordsmith-extends-series-b-with-14-million…
Apple capped bug bounty submissions after AI slop clogged the inbox, letting a $200K macOS flaw go unreported.
the-decoder.com/a-real-macos-flaw-worth-200k-went-u…
Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that learn on the job, no specialized programmers needed.
therobotreport.com/reimagine-robotics-emerges-steal…
@Avnet and @WestonRobot launch edge AI inspection platform for complex industrial environments.
therobotreport.com/avnet-and-weston-robot-partner-t…
@Cursor open-sources MoK, the MoE training megakernel for Composer models.
marktechpost.com/2026/08/04/cursor-open-sources-mix…
Microsoft Copilot for Word has a self-spreading worm that spreads via hidden prompt injections in reused docs.
the-decoder.com/a-security-researcher-built-a-self-…