Humans Miss One in Three Agent Threats — Aug 7

AMD is acquiring Taalas, a startup that etches model weights directly into silicon, the clearest sign yet that custom inference chips are consolidating through M&A rather than staying a venture bet. A public game found humans miss one in three threats when approving AI agent commands, undercutting human review as a real safety net just as Meta pushes contested self-reported benchmark claims for Muse Spark 1.2 and OpenAI ships an open agent-plugin standard five major vendors agreed to jointly. Anthropic also quietly cut Fable 5's biology-safety false positives by 85 percent, showing how launch-day caution gets walked back once real usage data comes in.