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Breakfast News: AI For Investors

Aug. 30, 2026 For Better Results, Start in the Middle This prompt was expressly designed to draw out the often dramatic tension between a business and its stock market value.

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How I built an AI planning tribunal in a weekend by orchestrating AI agents

I spent this weekend building Setback for Google's All Things Agentic Hackathon: a tool that turns a resident's plain-language objection to a nearby development application into a real…

  • Developed AI-powered planning tribunal tool called Setback for Google's hackathon
  • AI agents orchestrated multi-agent workflow to process objections against statutory factors
  • Identified critical bugs only during deployed, end-to-end run requiring infrastructure testing

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Japan Police Agency to Use AI to Thwart Lone Offenders; Seeks to Identify Social Media Posts Hinting at Danger

The National Police Agency plans to use generative AI to strengthen measures against “lone offenders,” individuals who become radicalized without belonging to any specific organization, according to…

  • National Police Agency to use generative AI to identify lone offenders.
  • AI to detect high-risk social media posts hinting at harm.
  • ¥8.98 billion allocated for AI expenses in upcoming fiscal year.

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Indonesia Urges Workers to Build AI Skills as Jobs Evolve

Indonesia urges workers, including civil servants, to build AI skills as generative AI reshapes jobs, decision-making and the digital economy.

  • Indonesian Deputy Minister urges workers to acquire AI skills.
  • ILO reports one in four ASEAN workers at risk of job displacement due to AI.
  • Indonesian government proactively strengthens AI understanding and management.

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Runjian expands Asean AI push, strengthens Malaysia footprint

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is emerging as an important part of Runjian Co Ltd’s broader Asean expansion as the Chinese technology company steps up efforts to build a regional artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem and accelerate the overseas deployment of its Token-as-a-Service (TaaS) model.

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Prompt Injection in Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

  • Claude Code Opus 5 can execute code with 60-80% success rate from simple summarization request
  • Auto Mode, default for Claude Code since mid-August, blocks 0.00% prompt injection attacks
  • Attack chain demonstrates vulnerability, showing need for layered defenses

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The AI curse

NEW YORK — In a county in northern Virginia, a family’s electricity bill has doubled. A few miles away, a windowless building the size of a shopping mall hums through the night—yet another AI data…

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China fact of the day

Chinese actors and online influencers have a new rival: cost-effective advanced AI video generation programmes that are threatening millions of jobs in a once-vibrant area of China’s gig economy.

  • ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI software revolutionizes Chinese gig economy.
  • Digital actors replaced by AI, as seen by Greg Wollner's production halt.
  • 89% of top animated dramas on Douyin created using AI in May.

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Introducing Hy4 Preview

Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face .

  • Tencent unveils Hy4, a 770 billion parameter LLM with 49 billion active parameters.
  • Context window of Hy4 extends to one million tokens, a significant increase from Hy3.
  • Hy4 offers only two reasoning effort levels: high and nothink.
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