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Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to

Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions
Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work. The company is building an internal platform to track ...

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@ottaross This looks very tasty! Weird to have both yeast and baking powder, but it seems to give a good result

A livestream of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah (Made by Google on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84y9gAY90c
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Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/doge-defense-startups

Ex-DOGE Employees Are Raising $130 Million for an AI Security Company
The engineers who wreaked havoc on Washington are done slashing contracts. Now they want to win some.

Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost (Ara Kharazian/Ramp)
https://ramp.com/data/ai-index-august-2026

August 2026 Ramp AI Index: Cracks in the AI thesis
Ramp’s lead economist Ara Kharazian publishes the latest Ramp data on AI adoption in the monthly Ramp AI Index update.

Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/google-about-to-release-new-gemini

Google is about to release a new Gemini model
The next Gemini is coming at I/O on Tuesday, but it won't be pushing the frontier.

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3