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Kentucky Spent $2.3 Billion Expanding Addiction Treatment While Vetoing the Bill That Would Have Stopped the Fraud Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear expanded Medicaid addiction treatment access, spending $2.3 billion; one company received $103 million in a year as fraud warnings were ignored and oversight bills vetoed.

The Prompt Engineers Who Can't Describe What They Want Without Naming Someone Else's Style OpenAI updated ChatGPT to refuse prompts asking it to write in the style of specific living authors, blocking users who had built writing workflows around mimicking published writers' prose styles. Jul 30, 2026 ·Tech & AI A Robot Head That Costs More Than a Down Payment and Makes You Uncomfortable Chinese robotics startup AheadForm created a $150,000 humanoid robot head with 25-42 brushless micro-motors that users report is disturbingly realistic. Jul 30, 2026 ·The Curious Microsoft Can't Fix AI-Discovered Bugs Fast Enough to Meet Its Own Public Release Deadline Anthropic's Mythos AI found 90 critical and 141 important bugs in Microsoft SharePoint by April, but Microsoft couldn't fix them all before making the model publicly available May 31, leaving hundreds of moderate-severity vulnerabilities unpatched. Jul 29, 2026 ·Tech & AI School Spent $60,000 on Humanoid Robot to Run Software It Already Owned A New York school district paused deployment of a $60,000 humanoid AI robot teacher after backlash from state officials, teachers, and residents. Jul 29, 2026 ·Tech & AI New England Town Marks Ambush Site and Victor's Camp, Leaves Both by Utility Poles New Braintree, Massachusetts maintains roadside markers commemorating the 1675 Siege of Brookfield, documenting both colonial casualties and King Philip's indigenous forces' tactical positions. Jul 29, 2026 ·The Curious Game show winner spends windfall pursuing Guinness certification for fish stick consumption speed Nathan Davies of Britain broke a Guinness World Record by eating 15 fish sticks in one minute, shortly after winning $130,000 on a game show. Jul 29, 2026 ·The Curious Google Uses Copyright Law to Stop Scraping of Results It Says Aren't Copyrighted A web scraper won a court ruling against Google and Reddit, who attempted to use DMCA copyright law to block scraping of search results that Google itself admits are not copyrighted. Jul 28, 2026 ·Tech & AI

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