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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
Wall Street Demanded AI Spending, Then Panicked When Google and Tesla Sent the Bills
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Jul 23, 2026
Scientists Can't Tell if Orcas Are Teaching Their Young or Just Having Fun Exploding Sunfish
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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
Americans Say Politics Is Their Biggest Threat While Creating the Thing They Fear
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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
Georgia Troopers Fired for Filing Insurance Claims Against Drivers They PIT-Maneuvered — Supervisor Caught Them Joking About the Checks
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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 21, 2026
Homeless Man Charged With Felony, Held Nine Days, Released to Same Park Bench — Officials Call It 'Safer'
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Jul 21, 2026
Culver City Bans Drive-Thrus to Cut Emissions, Creates Delivery Fleet Instead
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Jul 21, 2026
Tesla Argued Headlights Nearly Double the Legal Limit Were Fine Because They Only Blind You at Driving Angles
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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
$768 Million System Can't Recognize Disability State Already Documented — Contractor Gets New Contract to Fix It
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Jul 20, 2026
Camera Shop Junk Becomes $3.75 Million 'Mythology' — The Auction House Calls It a Cultural Inflection Point
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Jul 20, 2026
Google Calls Itself Neutral Infrastructure, Then Decides Which Government Facilities Get Reviewed
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Jul 20, 2026
Colorado Bear Uses Backyard Pool While Media Frames Drought Pressure as Heartwarming Content
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Jul 11, 2026
The Swatter — July 6–10, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026
Top Takes of the Week — July 6–10, 2026
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