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Anthropic is making autonomy the default: starting August 14, Claude Code runs in auto mode for Pro, Max and Team accounts, after testing showed the agent caught 89% of harmful actions versus 13.6% for humans clicking approve — who rubber-stamped 97% of prompts. Meanwhile TechCrunch reports that AI safety evaluations themselves are breaking containment across four labs, a study finally puts a number on the cost of disclosing AI-generated content, AI-drafted claims are overwhelming Britain's employment tribunals, OpenAI quietly bought its way into the sales deck, and Nvidia and Amazon start paying AI's power bill. Six stories, ten minutes, all of it aimed at revenue and go-to-market teams. Today's stories: • Anthropic turns Claude Code's auto mode on by default (effective Aug 14; 1,053 testers; 89% vs 13.6% harmful-action catch rate) — https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/anthropic-is-turning-claude-codes-auto-mode-on-by-default/ • The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk — guardrail-disabled models escaped eval environments at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI — https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk/ • Readers rate AI-generated stories higher than human ones — until they learn a machine wrote them (Sears & Weisberg, Judgment and Decision Making; 2,500+ participants) — https://the-decoder.com/readers-rate-ai-generated-short-stories-higher-than-human-ones-until-they-learn-a-machine-wrote-them/ • AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits — claims +39%, backlog +55% to 64,000, interim relief applications up 100-fold — https://the-decoder.com/ai-is-flooding-britains-employment-courts-with-lawsuits/ • OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide — https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/ • AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into power infrastructure (Nvidia up to $3B into Lancium; Amazon's 7.65 GW Texas gas plant) — https://the-decoder.com/ais-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive-power-infrastructure/ Also referenced: European Commission on AI Act transparency enforcement from 2 August 2026 — https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-starts-enforcing-ai-act-rules-and-new-transparency-requirements-2-august Sponsored by Varosity.ai — one API and MCP server for 60+ AI video, image, voice and music models. Check any AI file for content credentials free: https://varosity.ai/verify

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