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- 1Samsung posts record $80 billion profit on AI chip boom●Samsung's profits hit a record $80 billion as an AI chip boom drives growth. The company also expects a boost from its f
Samsung reported record profits of $80 billion, driven largely by booming demand for AI chips. The company also expects additional growth from its new folding smartphones, which launched in August. The results underscore how the artificial intelligence boom is reshaping the semiconductor industry, with memory chip makers among the biggest beneficiaries as data centres expand to support AI workloads.
- 2Sidequest: An Open-Source Kanban Board Where Cards Work Themselves●Originally published on Eigenwise on September 2, 2026. The usage figures below describe my August... # opensource # ai
A developer has released Sidequest, an open-source Kanban board described as one where 'the cards work themselves', pairing project management with AI-driven automation. Writing on Eigenwise, the author shares August usage figures from running the tool in real software development work. Early attention is coming from the open-source and AI coding communities, where interest centres on how agents might automate task execution rather than just tracking it.
- 3Utah expands healthcare AI sandbox with new pilots▼Utah expands healthcare AI sandbox with August AI, Nolla Health pilots, adds third-party evaluators
Utah is widening its healthcare AI regulatory sandbox, bringing in new pilots from August AI and Nolla Health. The state is also adding third-party evaluators to independently assess AI tools before and during deployment. The programme lets health AI developers test products in a supervised environment, and the expansion signals Utah's continued push to be a leading testing ground for regulated AI in healthcare.
- 4AI agents now consume five times more tokens than humans●AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x Daniel Newman’s number comes from Ope
AI agents are consuming far more tokens than human users, according to OpenRouter data cited by analyst Daniel Newman. Agents reportedly overtook humans in token usage in February and grew fourteenfold by August, now using roughly five times more than people, with projections pointing to a tenfold gap. The surge is driven by cached prompts as automated agents run continuously, raising questions about compute costs and infrastructure demand.
- 5South Korea's AI chip budget goes unspent●South Korea's AI chip budget remained unspent through August 2026, with the AI semiconductor development program reporti
South Korea's budget for AI semiconductor development reportedly remained unspent through August 2026, with the government's AI chip program recording zero spending, according to DigiTimes Asia. The stalled disbursement raises questions about the pace of the country's push to develop homegrown AI chips and support its semiconductor industry amid intensifying global competition.
- 6AI cracks Napoleon-era military code in six hours●AI dešifrirao vojnu šifru iz Napoleonova doba za šest sati Riječ je o šifriranom izvješću o rasporedu postrojbi koje je
Artificial intelligence has decrypted a military code from the Napoleonic era in just six hours. The encrypted message was a report on troop deployments, sent on Napoleon's orders to French general Auguste de Marmont. The breakthrough shows how modern machine-learning tools can solve historical ciphers that resisted codebreakers for over two centuries.
- 7AI-Powered Malware Remains Mostly Academic, Report Finds●The State of AI-Enabled Malware August 2026: From Brand Abuse to Agentic Execution Good news: While AI-powered malware e
A new August 2026 report reviews the state of AI-enabled malware, analyzing over 400 samples. The findings: while AI-powered malware is real, it remains largely experimental, with only 12 samples confirmed to have hit live systems, all of which were blocked by Palo Alto Networks defenses. Around 97% of AI malware activity stays confined to test labs rather than production environments. The report tracks the field's shift from simple brand abuse toward more advanced agentic execution, a development security researchers are watching closely.