Links

Links for August 5, 2026

1. "Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief shifts role" "Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration"

   "Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le — some of Google's most famous and lauded AI and engineering leaders — left the company to launch a startup called Discovery Loop, which will focus on researching breakthroughs in machine learning, science and engineering. The startup is structured as a public benefit corporation."

   A huge deal for Google’s potential to be a top-few AI lab player

2. "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed"
3. "The Kids Are Alright" "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have | Hacker News"
4. "Pi, Minimal and Performant" "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | Hacker News"
5. "One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5"
6. "Olam Labs — Multi-Agent Arena"

   Catan, Risk, and Poker against a range of agents

7. "Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases" "Meta Model API"

   Begun, the pricing wars have