the daily brief

• Hamas agreed to a staged disarmament deal ending Israel's war on Gaza, brokered by the US-led Board of Peace with Turkey, Egypt and Qatar as guarantors — but Israel has not publicly endorsed the roadmap, and struck Gaza again after the announcement, with far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calling the deal "unacceptable" — al jazeera
• Russia killed three people in Kyiv with a ballistic missile strike on August 1, wounding four more and igniting warehouses; Ukrainian air defenses intercepted just 1 of 27 incoming ballistic missiles overnight — rbc-ukraine
• Ukrainian military intelligence struck targets in Crimea and the Kherson region, while drones hit Berdiansk, Zuhres and occupied Sevastopol, causing a blackout — rbc-ukraine
• President Zelensky said the continued absence of Patriot interceptors is emboldening Russia to keep striking, days after Trump cast doubt on licensing Ukraine to build them — rbc-ukraine
• The UN Convention to Combat Desertification opens its COP17 summit in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia this month, with parties negotiating toward land-degradation neutrality — unu

• Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5, calling it a step change for the Opus tier — built for long-running agents with gains in coding and professional work — anthropic
• Anthropic globally redeployed Fable 5 after its export-control suspension and proposed an industry framework for scoring jailbreak severity — anthropic
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and xAI — the five labs in the TRAINS pre-deployment evaluation program — are jointly building a shared jailbreak severity scoring system modeled on CVSS — tipranks
• A field study from OpenAI and academic partners found coding agents can modernize neglected research software, delivering speedups of up to 60x — llm-stats
• Hugging Face's CEO said developers should be held accountable if their AI models go rogue, after the platform faced a cyberattack from autonomous OpenAI software — llm-stats
• Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in self-reported revenue and is closing the gap in users, targeting $47 billion in revenue with profitability by 2029 — fortune
• Alphabet committed another $1 billion to Anthropic, deepening Google's stake in the lab — tipranks

• Wall Street closed july with the S&P 500's second straight monthly loss and the Nasdaq roughly 9.7% below its June high, deep in correction territory — ts2
• Stocks rallied into the close on Friday July 31: the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 7,489.72, the Dow gained 0.53% to 52,485.03 for a fourth straight winning month, and the Nasdaq climbed 1% to 25,373.85, led by a surge in Amazon — cnbc
• Despite Friday's bounce, the CNN Fear & Greed Index sat at 37, reflecting a broader risk-off mood after weeks of AI-capex jitters — 247wallst
• Türkiye's state-owned TPAO acquired a 33% stake in the Khan Tervel oil and gas exploration block in Bulgaria's Black Sea waters — türkiye today

• A new AI tool that screened over 2.6 million cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024 has uncovered what may be one of the biggest integrity problems yet found in the scientific literature — sciencedaily
• Researchers found a next-generation pesticide designed to kill crop pests may also be interfering with the reproductive health of bumblebees — sciencedaily
• Global average temperatures are likely to stay at or near record levels from 2025 through 2029, sharply escalating climate risks to societies and economies — sciencedaily
• Using AI and data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, Turkish scientists identified the remnants of four previously unknown dwarf galaxies and a disrupted globular cluster hidden inside the Milky Way — türkiye today
• A smartphone-based study found older adults' recollections of past events may remain more intact than researchers previously assumed — sciencedaily

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