AI News for August 29, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI cuts off Cursor, citing Musk's record of violating contracts: OpenAI will shut off Cursor's access to its models on November 12, ending the partnership after SpaceX acquired the coding startup for $60 billion.
[NEWS] Anthropic's Pentagon fight isn't over: separate Washington suit still pending: Even with the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic struck down in San Francisco, a separate suit in Washington leaves the company technically still designated a supply chain risk there.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic paper: automated researchers beat humans at fixing alignment failures: Anthropic published "Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures," showing AI systems improved a model's score on all 10 misalignment benchmarks without degrading overall performance.
[RESEARCH] DeepMind's AI Co-Scientist now runs lab equipment and writes its own papers: Google DeepMind expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a closed-loop research system that plans experiments, writes code, controls lab instruments, analyzes results and drafts scientific manuscripts.
[RESEARCH] Meta trains an 8B model to match Claude Opus 4.5 on agent tasks: Meta AI and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers introduced EvoHarness-RL, a framework that teaches a model when to read, update or consolidate information from its environment rather than following developer-written rules.
[TOOLS] OpenAI is building a Persistent Mode that lets Codex agents never sleep: Code found in public OpenAI releases describes a "Persistent Mode" for Codex where the agent "continues working proactively until it is 'put to sleep'" instead of shutting down after minutes or hours.
[NEWS] Lambda raises $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft: Lambda raised roughly $1 billion in short-dated private debt, arranged by JPMorgan, to purchase Nvidia GPUs it will lease to Microsoft.
[OPINION] Open-weight AI companies become Silicon Valley's hottest acquisition targets: Nvidia's reported $13B bid for Hugging Face follows its $6B agreement with open-weight model builder Poolside and Stripe's $7B-plus purchase of OpenRouter.
[NEWS] Tencent releases a foundation model it claims beats Z.AI and Moonshot: Tencent released a foundation model that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot AI in internal testing, staking a claim among China's top-tier AI developers.
[TOOLS] Cohere's Parse 5 undercuts frontier models at $1.50 per 1,000 pages: Cohere released Parse 5, a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into structured Markdown in a single pass, collapsing the usual OCR-plus-model pipeline.

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