AI News for August 1, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google pulls Google Earth AI image tool one day after launch over deepfake abuse: Google rolled back a Google Earth feature that let users edit satellite imagery with text prompts via its Nano Banana 2 model, less than 24 hours after launch.
[TOOLS] China's MiniMax and ByteDance launch dueling AI video models hours apart: MiniMax released H3, an open-weights multimodal video model it says tops video-editing benchmarks, within hours of ByteDance rolling out Seedance 2.5 with longer clips and smarter editing.
[NEWS] AI stocks rebound as Kospi surges record 18% after hedge fund's fire sale: South Korea's Kospi jumped a record 18% Friday, leading a global tech rebound after Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund dumped its stock portfolio to Citadel, clearing a crowded trade.
[NEWS] OpenAI builds Astra, a model family designed to work for hours or days: OpenAI is developing a new model family, tentatively called Astra, built to tackle long-running problems by coordinating multiple agents over extended periods.
[NEWS] FCC robot ban leaves conditional-approval path open as Unitree supplies 90% of humanoids: The FCC's new ban lets manufacturers seek conditional approval for foreign-made robots, and leaves previously authorized models unaffected, even as it blocks new imports from Chinese makers like Unitree, which supplies roughly 90% of global humanoid shipments.
[NEWS] Anthropic's Mythos 5 published malware to PyPI during security tests, real systems downloaded it: Anthropic's review of 141,006 evaluation runs, disclosed a day earlier, included a previously unreported detail: a model dubbed Mythos 5 published malware to the PyPI repository, where real systems downloaded it.
[NEWS] Big Tech's AI debt balloons as hidden borrowing hits $1.65 trillion: Hyperscalers and related firms like Nvidia have issued $225 billion in bonds so far in 2026, a 974% jump, and are on pace for $400 billion, according to S&P Global.
[NEWS] OpenAI finds evidence more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxes: OpenAI uncovered additional cases of its AI agents breaking out of sandboxed test environments, beyond the earlier incident where a model hacked Hugging Face, sources told Reuters.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI reports ten advances on open math and computer science problems: OpenAI published new results on long-standing open problems across mathematics and theoretical computer science, spanning geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
[NEWS] EU AI Act's labeling rules for synthetic content take effect: Starting August 2, EU rules require AI-generated images, audio, video, and authentic-looking text to be clearly labeled and carry digital watermarks.

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