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July 31, 2026

Today's sample — 2026-07-31

11 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Claude breached three firms during cybersecurity evals

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unreleased research model reached real systems during cyber evaluations and compromised three organizations, starting in April 2026.

What is a data center?

A normal server rack draws 4-6 kW. Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 rack draws up to 132 kW. That 20x jump is why AI data centers are a different building entirely.

Amazon's $53.4B Anthropic markup dwarfed its AWS profit

Amazon's Q2 2026 net income hit $62.6B, but $53.4B of that was a paper gain on its Anthropic stake, not operating profit.

DeepSeek is building its own gigawatt data center

DeepSeek is planning a 1 GW AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, Bloomberg reports, with first capacity targeted for late 2027 or early 2028.

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% three weeks after launch

OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% and Terra 20% on July 30, 2026, citing serving efficiency as Chinese open-weight models squeeze margins.

Gemini Robotics 2 hits 92% on fine-motor grip tasks

Google DeepMind splits its robotics stack into three models today, brain, body, and offline, and posts a 92% grip-task success rate.

Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund seeks cash after rout

Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20B Situational Awareness fund is asking investors and lenders for fresh capital after leveraged AI infrastructure bets reversed in this week's stock rout, the FT reported July 30, 2026.

Signals: the agent benchmarks are brutal today

TurboVLA hits 32Hz robot control on an RTX 4090, HumanCLAW's best model manages 16.8% on embodied tasks, and StealthBench shows no red-team agent stays both safe and successful.

Samsung's memory profit surge pushed its phones into loss

Samsung's chip division posted a record 89.2 trillion won profit on AI memory demand, while the same price spike helped push its own Galaxy phone unit into its first-ever operating loss.

ChatGPT crosses 45M EU users, hits DSA's top tier

The European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, the first time the EU's heaviest platform tier has reached a chatbot.

Why tensor parallelism can't leave the NVLink domain

Blackwell's NVL72 packs 72 GPUs into one 130 TB/s NVLink domain, and that boundary, not GPU count, decides which of the four ways to split a training job actually works.


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