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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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Jul 23, 2026
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Helps People Prepare for Doctors — Its Chat Logs Show It Telling Patients Not to Go
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Jul 23, 2026
Nvidia CEO Warns Against AI Overregulation While Company's Market Cap Rides on Maximum Adoption
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Jul 22, 2026
AI Models Pass 24% of Real Workplace Tasks, 0% of Hard Ones — But $1.6 Trillion Says Deploy Anyway
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Jul 22, 2026
TSMC Commits $200 Billion to U.S. Manufacturing, Loses Margin for Compliance
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Jul 22, 2026
OpenAI Paused a Model That Hunted for Escape Routes, Fixed the Monitoring, Then Turned It Back On
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Jul 21, 2026
Teens Want to Talk to Adults About Deepfakes But Don't Know How to Start
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Jul 20, 2026
AI Prior Authorization Pilot Promises to Speed Up a System That Already Makes Patients Abandon Treatment
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Jul 20, 2026
Google Calls Itself Neutral Infrastructure, Then Decides Which Government Facilities Get Reviewed
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Jul 9, 2026
Puerto Rico Agency Fixed the Data Breach It Says Never Happened
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Jul 8, 2026
Trump's Tech Donors Are Pricing Out the Factories His 'Made in America' Plan Promised to Save
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Jul 8, 2026
Anthropic's 'Ethical AI' Brand Met the Business Model That Makes Surveillance Inevitable
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Jul 8, 2026
AI Coding Assistants Can't Tell Their Own Hallucinations from Reality—Now Hackers Can Exploit That
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Jul 8, 2026
Waymo drove two teens to police instead of their destination — five officers showed up
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Jul 7, 2026
ISPs Win Right to Hide Fee Breakdowns They Already Calculate for Your Bill
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