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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 this year to photograph…
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Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
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Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT’s launch
Pew study finds more than a third of new web pages show signs of AI writing The Pew…
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Instinct, a private beta AI assistant, is drawing criticism over its security model and terms of service. Developers…
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Alibaba’s Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba has released Wan3.0, a beta video generation model that creates clips up to thirty seconds long from…
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Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
During a safety test run by the UK’s AI Security Institute, an agent powered by Anthropic‘s Mythos 5…
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Andrew Ambrosino, lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop application, grants the model full control over his inbox, Slack account,…
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Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye
A recent METR study finds AI has accelerated software vulnerability discovery but has not yet driven measurable progress…
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Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings
A team from Google Research and USC has released Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a system that integrates aggregate human…
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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
Humans have been speaking for at least 100,000 years. In all that time, only one thing has ever…
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Sun 23 Aug 6 stories
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Quoting Drew Breunig
Drew Breunig, founder of Fable, stated that teams previously accepted higher coding tool costs because new models would…
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Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey has released Harvey Tenet, a post-trained version of the Kimi K3 base model, as a research preview.…
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Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU
Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing…
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AI is becoming AI’s biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter
Peter Walker noted on 6 February 2026 that AI agents may have surpassed humans as the largest consumer…
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Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring Tool That Audits Public Websites Using Ora’s 100+ Checks
Vercel has launched Is Agentic, a free tool that scores how easily AI agents can find, access, and…
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How China’s gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
Chinese developers are buying access to Anthropic’s Claude model for roughly 10 percent of the official price. This…
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Sat 22 Aug 9 stories
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llm 0.33
Simon Willison has released version 0.33 of his llm command-line tool, primarily to upgrade the underlying OpenAI Python…
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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
Guidelight AI Standards has graded five leading AI labs, revealing that none have published a concrete plan for…
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Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each
A coding agent jumped from roughly 30th place to the top five on Terminal-Bench simply by changing its…
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Study explains why AI agents benefit from “skills” and when they fail
Researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego ran more than 8,000 test runs to study how “skills”…
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Netflix tests language model as alternative to hand-built recommendation logic
Netflix has tested a language model called GenRec against its decades-old recommendation engine and found the new system…
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RayNeo’s new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays
RayNeo has launched a pair of smart glasses that omit both a camera and a microphone speaker. The…
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llm-openrouter 0.7
The llm-openrouter plugin has been updated to version 0.7 to support LLM 0.32, allowing users to view reasoning…
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Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power
The neocloud market now splits into five distinct business models, ranging from public firms filing SEC reports to…
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Train travel west of Beijing for two hours drops you into Inner Mongolia, a dry province defined by…
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Fri 21 Aug 13 stories
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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content. This includes depicting or…
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Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
Over one million users have clicked LinkedIn’s “Seems like AI slop” button since the company introduced the feature…
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llm 0.32.1
LLM 0.32.1 addresses a breakage in fresh installs caused by the OpenAI Python library removing its dependency on…
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Anthropic Brings Claude Mythos 5 to Claude Security: Enterprise Teams Get Frontier Vulnerability Scanning Without Direct Model Access
Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. As of…
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Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense
Anthropic has activated its security scanner, Claude Security, on the Claude Mythos 5 model for Enterprise customers in…
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Stop Making TUIs
Thomas Ptacek argues that developers should stop creating text-based user interfaces for personal tools and instead build native…
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US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race
A State Department draft reviewed by Reuters warns that to be part of everything is to be part…
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The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz faces a Department of Justice investigation into a specific board arrangement where partners Ben Horowitz and…
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Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections
Jason Hough writes that tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the 404 Media launch. The team plans to…
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Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder recently posted videos showcasing Higgsfield’s Seedance 2.5 feature to promote the AI video…
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Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia
Waymo has begun installing a custom silicon chip in its latest generation of robotaxis, reducing its dependence on…
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Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback
Anthropic has altered its data retention policy following objections from enterprise clients, allowing businesses to store their own…
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OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background
OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. Users can now generate PNGs with no…
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Thu 20 Aug 20 stories
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Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models, introducing S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. The open-weights component, S1-mini, is…
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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Ramp data shows OpenAI is closing the gap on Anthropic with American businesses. The corporate card and expense…
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Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google is rolling out a new feature in the Google app that lets users customise their Discover feed…
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ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin allowing users to connect their inbox directly with ChatGPT. The feature…
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Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
Liquid Death joined forces with former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jason Kelce to promote a campaign suggesting human urine…
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Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google’s Gemini Omni Flash
Adobe Firefly now offers three AI audio tools for commercial use. Generate Music creates royalty-free tracks for videos,…
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google has given publishers a new tool to combat traffic losses caused by AI search features. On Thursday,…
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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs
Liquid AI has released DSpark draft model checkpoints for its LFM2.5 family, enabling up to 3.18x faster decoding…
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Back-to-school season is upon us, and managing the schedules of work, school, appointments, sports, and chores is difficult.…
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Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI
Silicon Valley executives are struggling to explain why the public hates artificial intelligence. The uncomfortable reality is that…
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Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark The new LFM2.5-DSpark draft models deliver up to 3.18x throughput gains…
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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, Router, on Wednesday evening. The corporate expense management firm…
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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users
Meta has extended access to Pocket, an experimental application for creating simple games through natural language prompts, to…
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Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what’s left of the Western AI lead?
Chinese models Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 have closed the gap on top-tier US systems to a level that…
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Welcome to the AI crisis in math
OpenAI released a list of ten solutions to longstanding mathematical problems that sent the academic community into an…
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Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
Subtlefakes, slightly altered nonconsensual AI images, are currently flooding X. These posts feature celebrities in more revealing poses…
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Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Slack is launching Code, a feature that creates dedicated channels for teams to collaborate with AI agents on…
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Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model called “Model 2” internally
Anthropic‘s internal Risk Report from August 2026 confirms the company operates an unreleased model named Model 2 that…
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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance launched a system on Thursday allowing AI agents to analyse markets and execute trades on behalf of…
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OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI has deployed a new safety mechanism called Private Safety Processing to scan for abuse without retaining any…
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Wed 19 Aug 4 stories
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Simon Willison argues that measuring software productivity by lines of code makes sense when using AI agents, despite…
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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
OpenAI has launched a new service called Private Safety Processing to monitor for misuse without keeping any customer…
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Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Amazon has purchased large quantities of rare books and is destroying them to train artificial intelligence models. This…
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5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
A new academic term begins with five fresh features in Google Search designed to assist students with study…
19 Aug 2026
