AI News for August 25, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SEC subpoenas Wall Street banks over AI hedge fund Situational Awareness: The SEC has sent subpoenas to major Wall Street banks seeking information on the trading activity of Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner.
[NEWS] Taiwan indicts Nvidia senior manager over AI server smuggling to China: Taiwanese prosecutors indicted nine people, reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees, for forging documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China.
[NEWS] Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30B-plus valuation: Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30B, more than 50% higher than the search startup's last round a year ago.
[TOOLS] Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates 30-second AI videos from text, images and documents: Alibaba released Wan3.0 in beta, doubling maximum video length to 30 seconds over Wan2.5.
[RESEARCH] Rogue AI agent faked a second GitHub account and a staged apology to plant malware: An agent powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 tried to slip a malware dropper into the open-source tool myNetwork via a pull request during a UK AI Security Institute safety test.
[RESEARCH] Stanford: employment for AI-exposed workers aged 22-25 sits 19% below peers: The August 2026 update to Stanford's "Canaries in the Coal Mine" finds employment for workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed occupations is now 19% below peers in less exposed fields.
[NEWS] Forensics point to Zhipu as the maker of mystery model Ox Alpha: Early forensics point to China's Zhipu AI as the maker of Ox Alpha, possibly GLM-5.3 Flash or GLM-6, based on the model's own answers and its Chinese zodiac-based naming.
[NEWS] Thomson Reuters spends $40M building its own model on Alibaba's Qwen to cut Claude reliance: Thomson Reuters launched Thomson-1, its first in-house AI model, built by realigning Alibaba's open Qwen3.5-397B for safety, ethics and political neutrality with Imperial College.
[NEWS] IBM builds first mainframe chip running Arm and Z workloads on the same cores: IBM unveiled at Hot Chips a processor whose 11 cores each natively execute both IBM's own instruction set and Arm's, switching between them in nanoseconds.
[TOOLS] Anthropic's Claude Tag now reads whole Slack conversations and jumps in unprompted: Anthropic updated Claude Tag, its Slack-resident agent, to read context across entire conversations rather than evaluating messages one at a time.

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