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SUMO AI Weekly #001 · 29 August 2026. Launch edition: Episode 1 is free for everyone. From Episode 2 onward, subscribers receive the newest SUMO first.
SUMO uses ChatGPT to help source, research and create each episode. Full linked notes: https://www.sumo-podcast.click/sources#edition-6f89d813-b843-48c6-afd6-eb7f153562b7
Sources used in this edition:
• Simon Willison — AI (publication) — Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days — https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/28/just-a-rumour-of-a-bug/
• The AI Daily Brief (podcast) — The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try — https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/The-Most-Useful-New-AI-Features-and-Tools-to-Try-e3o1h3t
• TechCrunch — AI (publication) — Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips — https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/neocloud-lambda-secures-1b-in-debt-to-buy-more-chips/
• TechCrunch — AI (publication) — An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI — https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/an-anthropic-researcher-just-gave-us-a-peek-at-self-improving-ai/
• Ars Technica — AI (publication) — Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge — https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-blacklisting-of-woke-anthropic-deemed-illegal-by-federal-judge/
• IEEE Spectrum (publication) — Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life With His Simulation Software — https://spectrum.ieee.org/oscar-winner-jernej-barbic
• Future of Life Institute Podcast (podcast) — Why AI Hacking Is Becoming Hard to Control (with Benjamin Weinstein-Raun) — https://share.transistor.fm/s/de837028
• AWS Machine Learning Blog (primary) — How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-decathlon-runs-demand-forecasting-at-scale-with-chronos-2/
• AWS Machine Learning Blog (primary) — Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/spreading-the-load-how-salesforce-met-multi-az-ha-with-sagemaker-inference-components/
• Ars Technica — AI (publication) — Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording — https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-tweaks-ai-glasses-to-block-some-creepy-recordings-but-privacy-risks-remain/
• The Guardian — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres — https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/28/labour-green-party-zack-polanski-ai-datacentres
• The Guardian — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — The tussle over Australian datacentres is just beginning – and it’s been far from easy so far | Tom McIlroy — https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/28/ai-datacentres-energy-planning-australia-anthony-albanese-chris-bowen
• WIRED — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us? — https://www.wired.com/story/ai-has-human-doctors-asking-whats-left-for-us/
• The Cognitive Revolution (podcast) — AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded? — https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-highlights-recursive-self-improvement-rushed-and-vibe-coded/
• Hard Fork (podcast) — Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT — https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
• WIRED — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them — https://www.wired.com/story/he-scraped-art-from-cara-for-ai-now-he-is-collaborating-on-a-tool-to-help-them/
• Practical AI (podcast) — Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era — https://share.transistor.fm/s/123da941
• OpenAI News (primary) — Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX — https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex
• OpenAI News (primary) — Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups — https://openai.com/index/supporting-next-generation-ai-startups-thailand
• Apple Machine Learning Research (research) — LLMs Are Not (Consistently) Bayesian: Quantifying Internal (In)consistencies of LLMs’ Probabilistic Beliefs — https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/llms-not-consistently-bayesian
• Apple Machine Learning Research (research) — Agent Seer: Synthesizing Scenarios from Specification Understanding — https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/agent-seer-synthesizing-scenarios
• AWS Machine Learning Blog (primary) — Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-agentic-creative-workflows-with-amazon-quick-and-fal/
• Simon Willison — AI (publication) — Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode — https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/27/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-auto-mode/
• The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — The fight over AI data centres is becoming Australia’s next Indigenous policy challenge — https://theconversation.com/the-fight-over-ai-data-centres-is-becoming-australias-next-indigenous-policy-challenge-289623
• The AI Daily Brief (podcast) — How We Deal With Rogue AI — https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nlw/episodes/How-We-Deal-With-Rogue-AI-e3nvv70
• MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (research) — Looking beyond natural sequences — https://news.mit.edu/2026/looking-beyond-natural-sequences-0827
• Georgetown CSET (publication) — In applying AI to military decision-making, the IP4 should learn from NATO — https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/in-applying-ai-to-military-decision-making-the-ip4-should-learn-from-nato/
• The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence (publication) — How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police — https://theconversation.com/how-ai-powered-policing-is-endangering-the-publics-trust-in-police-289467
• Google AI (primary) — 3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search — https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/book-travel-ai-mode/
• NVIDIA Blog (primary) — GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026 — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-gamescom-2026/
• NVIDIA Blog (primary) — Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-cpu-delivery/
• Google DeepMind (primary) — Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations — https://deepmind.google/blog/piloting-the-worlds-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations/
• No Priors (podcast) — Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein — dc36d7b4-a1cb-11f1-a66e-afd86ce968a2
• OpenAI News (primary) — Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training — https://openai.com/index/what-students-gain-from-chatgpt-critical-thinking-training
• Latent Space (publication) — [AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6 — https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-hot-chips-openais-jalapeno
• NVIDIA Blog (primary) — NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory — https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvlink-fusion-nvhbm-custom-high-bandwidth-memory/
• IEEE Spectrum (publication) — IEEE Student Conference Provides Visibility to Budding Authors — https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-student-conference-budding-authors
• MIT Technology Review — AI (publication) — The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/
• Google DeepMind (primary) — Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe — https://deepmind.google/blog/intelligent-transcription-with-gemini-3-5-transcribe/
• Latent Space (publication) — Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use — https://www.latent.space/p/lovable-future-of-saas
• Latent Space (podcast) — 🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing — https://www.latent.space/p/anima
• The Cognitive Revolution (podcast) — RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo — https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/rl-s-a-hell-of-a-drug-metagaming-reward-seeking-motivated-cot-reasoning-bronson-schoen-apollo/
• MIT News — Artificial Intelligence (research) — AI helps design new materials that work in the real world — https://news.mit.edu/2026/ai-helps-design-new-materials-that-work-in-real-world-0826
• Google Research (research) — AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR — https://research.google/blog/agenthands-generating-interactive-hand-gestures-for-spatially-grounded-agent-conversations-in-xr/
• Dwarkesh Podcast (podcast) — Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 — https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel-3
• Practical AI (podcast) — AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders — https://share.transistor.fm/s/0f57c0bc
• Import AI (publication) — Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye — https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-470-no-rights-for-machines
• Machine Learning Street Talk (podcast) — Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov — https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Stealing-Reasoning-Traces-from-Proprietary-LLM-APIs--Ilia-Shumailov--Alexander-Panfilov-e3nonlk
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Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration
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SUMO AI Weekly #000
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration
SUMO AI Weekly #000 · 25 August 2026. Pre-launch Episode 0 pipeline test.
SUMO uses ChatGPT to help source, research and create each episode. Full linked notes: https://www.sumo-podcast.click/sources#edition-91db5e9d-05bd-4f8f-92fa-96dc489abb9c
Sources: Episode 0 is the pre-launch pipeline test; structured source metadata was not yet persisted for this recording.
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