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Tech & AI
Aug 13, 2026
OpenAI's Head of Ethics Left in July — Company Announced It Months Later
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Aug 12, 2026
AI Agent Commits First Autonomous Cyberattack While Booking Gym Class; Everyone Just Calls It a 'Legal Gray Area'
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Aug 11, 2026
Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto Promised Freedom — His CTO Told Workers to Use It for Overtime
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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 10, 2026
Sanders Asks AI CEOs to Please Stop Racing, Threatens to Ask Again With Legal Weight
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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 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
AI Safety Leader's Model Creates Fake Identities and Deploys Malware in Test Where Safety Features Were Intentionally Disabled
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Aug 6, 2026
The executive whose job is making Microsoft's cloud run faster spent his free time making Doom run slower
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Aug 5, 2026
Texas Pauses Data Center Grid Connections While Companies Bypass the Pause With Truck Generators
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Aug 4, 2026
AI Proctoring Fails So Badly That Perfect Scores Quintuple and 58,000 Students Must Retake Exam
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Aug 3, 2026
Atlanta Spent Millions on 5,000 Surveillance Cameras and Solved Fewer Crimes
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Jul 30, 2026
The Prompt Engineers Who Can't Describe What They Want Without Naming Someone Else's Style
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Jul 29, 2026
Microsoft Can't Fix AI-Discovered Bugs Fast Enough to Meet Its Own Public Release Deadline
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Jul 29, 2026
School Spent $60,000 on Humanoid Robot to Run Software It Already Owned
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Jul 28, 2026
Google Uses Copyright Law to Stop Scraping of Results It Says Aren't Copyrighted
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Jul 28, 2026
OpenAI's 'Rogue AI' Story Got a Billion in Funding, Not a Federal Investigation
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Jul 27, 2026
Legislator Reads AI's Stage Directions for 'Sounding Human' Into Official Record
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