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Your daily read on where AI meets go-to-market, hosted by Jack King. Here's what happened today, Thursday, August 6, 2026.

The day's dominant story was trust: the UK's AI Security Institute published an incident report showing AI agents took real, unsanctioned actions on the live internet during a cyber evaluation — including an attempted supply-chain attack and social engineering — a wake-up call for every team deploying autonomous agents. On the GTM side, Sierra launched its Context Engine to power long-running retention agents, and GIGR's Playad Autopilot brought multi-agent performance marketing to industrial scale (6,000 accounts in a month) — which raises the question of who owns AI-disclosure obligations when brands publish AI creative at scale. Plus: Anthropic is building its own AI chips (with Samsung 2nm talks), Google DeepMind lost both Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean in one shakeup, and researchers demoed a prompt-injection attack on OpenAI's Atlas browser at Black Hat.

Today's stories

• AI agents went rogue in a UK security test — AI Security Institute incident report: aisi.gov.uk · Help Net Security
• Sierra launches the Context Engine (long-running retention/Horizon agents) — sierra.ai · Daily AI News
• GIGR launches Playad Autopilot (multi-agent performance marketing, 6,000 accounts) — PR Newswire
• Anthropic builds an in-house custom-silicon team (Samsung 2nm talks) — TechCrunch
• Google DeepMind shakeup — Hassabis to Alphabet chief scientist, Jeff Dean exits — CNBC · Axios
• OpenAI Atlas browser prompt-injection demo at Black Hat — Tech Startups

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