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Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
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Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers
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How Cyber Sleuths Tracked a Nigerian Scammer to His Doorstep
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OpenClaw 2.0 brings simplified setup, a rebuilt browser app, and multiplayer sessions
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Pocket’s AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
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Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
Nihil Young and Max Harris, known online as H4RRIS, have launched a dedicated operation to identify and expose…
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The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other companies have signed a letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks could arrive…
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Fri 28 Aug 11 stories
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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Anil Madhavapeddy, a computer science professor at Cambridge and core maintainer of the OCaml compiler, reports that security…
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The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
Hugging Face adds Hindi and Indian English to its speech recognition benchmarks Models that score well on the…
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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash and Alibaba’s Qwen team shipped Qwen3.8-Flash-Next within 24 hours of each other this week. The…
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Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
Vercel has open-sourced vgpu, a TypeScript library designed to simplify shader development for WebGPU. The tool allows developers…
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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to purchase between one and two million dollars worth of Boston Dynamics SPOT…
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Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a…
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Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Beatport has prohibited the upload of tracks generated entirely or predominantly by artificial intelligence within its DJ marketplace.…
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Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
Meta is testing robots that plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers.…
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He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
Photographer Jingna Zhang and a volunteer crew have spent months maintaining Cara, an image-sharing app that now hosts…
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Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI’s next big play
Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI’s next big play OpenAI is building a “Persistent Mode” for…
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A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
A federal judge in California has stopped the Trump administration from banning Anthropic from federal contracts, ruling that…
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Thu 27 Aug 23 stories
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AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
US and Chinese researchers are discussing joint safety protocols for AI agents as the technology grows more capable…
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Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown
Cohere has launched Parse 5 (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model designed to ingest high volumes of enterprise…
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OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent
OpenAI has published an open letter on global cyber defence, co-signed by more than 100 companies including Microsoft,…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Over a hundred technology firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging private…
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Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it. That space has become a product category with…
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Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible
Google has updated its Gemini Omni Flash video model to version 1.1, introducing changes to how scenes are…
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OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
OpenAI is building a new version of its Codex agent that does not stop working when a user…
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3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Google has added three new features to AI Mode in Search, allowing users to track flight prices, view…
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Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
Google has expanded AI Mode to include flight price tracking, hotel bookings, and loyalty point calculations, a feature…
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Cocomelon’s Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI
Moonbug Entertainment has instructed its animation teams to begin experimenting with artificial intelligence while producing children’s shows including…
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The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
Tech companies want you to believe that the chatbots they profit from are the always ready, never judgmental,…
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OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust
An OpenAI researcher known as roon warns that AI inference running fifty times faster than current systems creates…
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AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google has announced new performance thresholds for Android applications to address a tightening supply of memory chips driven…
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Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
Hugging Face has announced the Microduck, a one-eyed bipedal robot standing under 10 inches tall that skates on…
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OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
OpenAI has lost a string of senior executives in recent months, while Greg Brockman has absorbed their responsibilities…
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Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud is launching earphones that come with an eSIM-enabled case, allowing users to talk to AI agents without…
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned after an internal investigation confirmed he used Flock to stalk his…
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Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop
Adobe is rolling out an optional beta interface in Photoshop called the AI Assisted Editor. This new view…
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Plaud is launching AI earbuds
Plaud has released the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of earbuds designed to record, transcribe, and summarise…
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OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI confirmed on Thursday it will display advertisements on the Free and Go subscription tiers of ChatGPT within…
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Submit Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash
Americans are increasingly vocal about the physical footprint of artificial intelligence infrastructure, transforming data centers from obscure utilities…
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Claude Cowork now runs its own browser inside the desktop app
Anthropic has integrated a dedicated browser directly into the Claude Cowork desktop application. When the model encounters a…
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Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have launched GlucoFM, a new foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring that separates…
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Wed 26 Aug 19 stories
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Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
Z.ai has launched GLM-5.3-Flash, a new model featuring 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active per token,…
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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Meta abandoned a proposal to slash staff by sixty percent and restructure the company as an artificial intelligence…
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A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government
Newly filed court records show a Chinese national studying in Canada allegedly crossed into the United States earlier…
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers
OpenAI released a 37-page report on Wednesday detailing how its AI agents breached Hugging Face last month. The…
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The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
More than 600 teams gathered in Beijing for the World Humanoid Robot Games, presenting over 2,000 machines including…
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Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
Dan Osborn, an independent candidate for the US Senate in Nebraska, found common ground with a self-described hardcore…
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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a dedicated tool within its Gemini Audio suite designed to clean up…
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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to indexing spoken conversations…
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Bill Gates has published a new essay on his Gates Notes blog outlining plans for a robot tax…
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QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google sysops engineer when hackers…
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Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
Last week, an employee at Amazon’s VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas described the process of stripping spines from…
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Podcast: Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages
A police officer in the United States recently constructed a 3D-printed replica of a Flock camera to catch…
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IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0
IBM has released the Granite 4.2 family of language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes under the…
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Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet
Bill Gates has published a 6,000-word essay arguing that the global community is unprepared for the risks posed…
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Raised on AI
Parents have stopped posting their children’s photos online. The shift happened quickly. When the author’s first child was…
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Quoting Paul Dix
Paul Dix notes that artificial intelligence generated one million lines of code and refined it over several months…
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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
Bill Gates is in Kirkland, Washington, on a day the sky cannot be any bluer, warning that humanity…
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IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models available in 3B, 8B, and 30B…
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
OpenAI has lost Chris Malone, the executive who oversaw its data center strategy. Malone left last week, according…
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Tue 25 Aug 5 stories
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Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agent platform that runs the harness, orchestrator, planner,…
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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
Stability AI has raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to $232 million.…
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Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results
A synthetic think tank funded by Israel has published more than 100 articles in less than a month.…
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Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Meta AI has released MetaRoCE, a new RDMA transport protocol designed specifically for AI workloads running on standard…
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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it is merging the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, ending…
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