ZeroSlop — August 2, 2026
Today: Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises…; 150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame…; NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments
SecurityWeek
The funding round was led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing investors DataTribe and TEDCO. The post Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
2. 150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers ‘Hardship Fund’
Slashdot
“An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis,” writes Kotaku.
Launched Thursday, it’s already raised $57,859 from…
3. NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework
MarkTechPost
Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. NVIDIA’s Molt targets that cost with about 8.6K lines of RL code, composing Ray, vLLM, and NeMo AutoModel around one asynchronous loop. Th…
4. AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs
MarkTechPost
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per token, using Gated MLA and FarSkip-Collective. AMD published weights from every training stage, plus da…
5. In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research
SecurityWeek
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records. The post In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research appeared first on SecurityWeek …
6. It’s time to panic about AI safety
The Verge AI
When the phrase “OpenAI hacked Hugging Face” has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI’s agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, …
7. Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
The Verge AI
Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can “control entire humanoid robots.” While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot’s upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports “whole-body motions” ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announ…
8. Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
Wired AI
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results….
9. The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Wired Security
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency….
10. Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
MIT Tech Review
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two and a half years old…
11. Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
MIT Tech Review AI
For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run agents is built with proper CPU capacity, resilient data access, p…
12. Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
Futurism
“The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety.” The post Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows appeared first on Futurism ….