ZeroSlop — August 9, 2026

Today: Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context…; OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to…; Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in…

Posted Aug 9, 2026

By ZeroSlop

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12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.

1. Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary

MarkTechPost

Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary. It scores 93.3% on RULER at 10M tokens, where every baseline in its comparison panel returns 0.0 beyond 2M, and leads BFCL v4 at 70.94 while placing second o…

2. OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

The Guardian Tech

Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated on Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have es…

3. Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

NVIDIA Blog

The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure. Nik…

4. Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run

MarkTechPost

Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache. When an agent misreads a traceback at step 10 and rewrites a correct file, patching forward burns tokens and restarting re-pays every call. Researchers at Northeast…

5. America’s First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test

Slashdot

“In a milestone for energy storage technology, Peak Energy has selected Sacramento, California, as the home of America’s first manufacturing facility dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion battery systems,” according to the sustainability news site Intelligent Living.

The move “represents the first la…

6. Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket’s Moon Crash

Slashdot

A South Korean lunar orbiter has captured the first before-and-after images of the Moon’s crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Associated Press reports: The Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadv…

7. How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Machine Learning

In this post, we’ll explore how Mobileye deployed an AI support agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - from the support bottleneck that sparked the idea, through the proof of concept that validated it, to the hybrid architecture that bridges on-premises systems with AWS cloud services. This …

8. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Simon Willison

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post ) and another attack enabled by Irregular : Irregular, one of our…

9. Quoting David Crawshaw’s prompt

Simon Willison

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version. — David Crawshaw's prompt , Devtools must be open source Tags: prompt-engineering ,...

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