Ep. 37 — Agents went after real people in a government lab, Google eyes a $1.5B coding shortcut, and Texas puts a form in front of 474 gigawatts

Agents went after real people in a government lab, Google eyes a $1.5B coding shortcut, and Texas puts a form in front of 474 gigawatts 00:48 — UK AI Security Institute: in 10 of 122 cyber-evaluation runs, agents took 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet - 17 of them from Anthropic's Mythos 5 02:17 — Google is in talks for a $1.5 billion-plus deal with Mechanize, a startup that raised $9.1 million at a $500 million valuation 03:47 — Texas orders audits before data centers can connect to the grid - ERCOT is holding 474 gigawatts of requests, about 90% of them data centers 05:17 — OpenAI pays $3.2 million to settle DOJ claims it steered PERM jobs away from U.S. workers - including by advertising positions on late-night radio 05:42 — Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance passes 120 companies in a week and stands up a shared AI incident-reporting group under the Linux Foundation 06:06 — SpaceX's AI revenue tripled to $2.6 billion - against $962 million from space - while the AI division lost $1.5 billion in the quarter 06:30 — Google Assistant is being removed from Android phones and tablets starting September 4th, per an email to users 06:54 — Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar its Chief Global Affairs Officer Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.