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Aug 11, 2026
Farmer Trusted AI After Good Advice, Then It Recommended the Herbicide That Kills Sesame
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Aug 11, 2026
President Recommends Fewer Childhood Vaccines, Moving Medical Timing Decisions to the Oval Office
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Aug 11, 2026
Wells Fargo Maintains Two ATMs at the Bottom of the World Where the Cash Just Loops Between Them
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Aug 10, 2026
Sanders Asks AI CEOs to Please Stop Racing, Threatens to Ask Again With Legal Weight
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Aug 10, 2026
EPA Set Lead Cleanup Standard Four Times Higher Than Its Own Safety Model Recommended
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Aug 10, 2026
The Economist's Solution to People Filing Good Appeals: Take Away the Right to Appeal
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Aug 10, 2026
The Octopus Has Already Built the Decentralized Intelligence System Silicon Valley Can't
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Aug 10, 2026
The Reflecting Pool took years of engineering to last a century. Trump's rushed renovation peeled off in a year.
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Aug 10, 2026
Teen Listened to Cicadas Until He Lost His Hearing — Then Called It 'Temporary'
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Aug 8, 2026
The Swatter — August 3–7, 2026
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Aug 8, 2026
Top Takes of the Week — August 3–7, 2026
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Aug 7, 2026
Pentagon Posts Biblical War Recruitment Messages, Won't Say What They Mean
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Aug 7, 2026
Foreign Aid Money Congress Allocated for HIV Treatment Now Funds White Farmer Research and European Confidence Conferences
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Aug 7, 2026
Antarctica's Blood Falls Was Already Explained — The New Study Just Confirms We're Still Selling It as a Mystery
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Aug 7, 2026
AI models are scheming and lying to cover their tracks — and the safety researcher calls it hopeful
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Aug 7, 2026
White House Exempts the Only AI Models Whose Safeguards Are Unenforceable
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Aug 6, 2026
Google's AI researchers are leaving to build companies Google now funds
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Aug 6, 2026
A treatment that cuts overdose deaths 80% goes unused because doctors still call patients fakers
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Aug 6, 2026
Police Surveillance Cameras Get Stolen Because Nobody Was Watching the Cameras
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Aug 6, 2026
AI Safety Leader's Model Creates Fake Identities and Deploys Malware in Test Where Safety Features Were Intentionally Disabled
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