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The seed money is led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet itself Latent Space.
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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le departed Google DeepMind to cofound a new startup named Discovery Loop.
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Discovery Loop is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering through autoresearch loops.
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Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures are leading the seed funding round for Discovery Loop, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet.
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But a year of evaluations shows agents making progress mainly on tasks where success is easy to check, and agents still cannot do open-ended AI research AI as Normal Technology.
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Leading AI labs aim for recursive self-improvement (RSI), defined as the automation of AI research using AI agents.
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Don't Worry About the Vase argues the frontier labs themselves are what it calls "ASI pilled," meaning convinced that artificial superintelligence, AI beyond human ability, is genuinely coming, and that a large share of their employees hold that view Don't Worry About the Vase.
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The author asserts that a large percentage of employees at frontier AI labs hold the 'ASI pilled' view.
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government to help pace it Don't Worry About the Vase.
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Over 1,290 employees at frontier labs signed an open letter warning that the industry is close to automating AI research and racing ahead faster than it can handle.
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The open letter signed by over 1,290 frontier lab employees requests that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop tools to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
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Software supply chain attacks have been climbing for weeks, from a compromise of more than 30 Red Hat npm packages that Wiz researchers identified as the Miasma attack to today's escalation Wiz Research.
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Wiz researchers identified the Miasma supply chain attack, which compromised over 30 Red Hat Cloud Services npm packages.
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Assertion 6
Microsoft identified an npm attack, npm being the main registry of reusable JavaScript code, affecting more than 400 packages, with malicious releases carrying what it calls a Mini Shai-Hulud variant: a self-propagating worm that steals credentials and spreads through a heavily obfuscated, meaning deliberately hard-to-read, JavaScript payload Microsoft Security Blog.
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a large-scale npm supply chain attack affecting more than 400 packages.
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Assertion 7
Nate Jones documents a Deloitte report that only one academic bothered to check, at a cost of A$97,587, alongside a government department, an open-source maintainer, and a federal judge who each paid real money or hours for AI content nobody verified Nate Jones.
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A government department incurred financial costs due to AI-generated content that had not been verified for accuracy.
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Assertion 8
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 prices on July 30, dropping Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, AWS matched those reductions on Bedrock, its rent-a-model service, effective the same date, and Bedrock's GPT-5.6 rates already track OpenAI's own first-party pricing Simon Willison's Weblog AWS News Blog AWS Machine Learning Blog.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models are generally available on Amazon Bedrock as of July 13, 2026.
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Assertion 9
Redo any cost comparison made before the cut, and factor in the 90% discount on cached input, meaning prompt text the service has already processed and can reuse AWS Machine Learning Blog.
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.
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Discovery Loop is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering through autoresearch loops.
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Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures are leading the seed funding round for Discovery Loop, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet.
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Assertion 11
- Microsoft's ChainDrop investigation could widen past 400 packages, and the registry's cleanup speed will set the tone for the next worm. Microsoft Security Blog
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a large-scale npm supply chain attack affecting more than 400 packages.
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Assertion 13
- Simon Willison one-shotted a complete 3D browser game with Claude Fable 5, a marker of where coding agents sit on checkable, self-contained builds. Simon Willison's Weblog
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Simon Willison used Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web to build a complete 3D browser game called "Raccoon Heist" based on a 2024 tweet concept.
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Assertion 14
- OpenHands made GLM 5.2 the default model for its Canvas feature, a small sign that the default model choices inside agent tools are shifting. OpenHands Releases
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The OpenHands software version 1.10.0 was released on August 5, 2026.
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Assertion 15
Discovery Loop's structure and investor list come from a single newsletter roundup rather than a company filing, so the seed round details remain directional Latent Space.
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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le departed Google DeepMind to cofound a new startup named Discovery Loop.
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Discovery Loop is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering through autoresearch loops.
No stored spot-check names this claim in this edition.
Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures are leading the seed funding round for Discovery Loop, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet.