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31The Courtroom Regulator: why the venue, not Congress, writes tech's rulesPolicy & DefenseSep 3, 2026

The Courtroom Regulator: why the venue, not Congress, writes tech's rules

32Web agents' world models learn to predict, not to choose: a rebuilt training objective lifts task successArtificial IntelligenceSep 3, 2026

Web agents' world models learn to predict, not to choose: a rebuilt training objective lifts task success

33Meta stops grading employees on AI usage right as it hands them HatchBusiness & IndustrySep 3, 2026

Meta stops grading employees on AI usage right as it hands them Hatch

34GoPro merges with Starman Optical for $285 million, pivoting from action cams to defense and AI infrastructureBusiness & IndustrySep 1, 2026

GoPro merges with Starman Optical for $285 million, pivoting from action cams to defense and AI infrastructure

35The Cook era ends today: John Ternus takes over Apple, inheriting a $4-trillion company and an AI promise more than two years past its unveilingBusiness & IndustrySep 1, 2026

The Cook era ends today: John Ternus takes over Apple, inheriting a $4-trillion company and an AI promise more than two years past its unveiling

36The AI publisher licensing ledger: 45 deals signed since 2023, and the lawsuits running in parallelBusiness & IndustryAug 31, 2026

The AI publisher licensing ledger: 45 deals signed since 2023, and the lawsuits running in parallel

37Grindr says 80% of its code is now AI-written while it price-tests a $350-a-month AI matchmaker, and investors still discount the stockBusiness & IndustryAug 31, 2026

Grindr says 80% of its code is now AI-written while it price-tests a $350-a-month AI matchmaker, and investors still discount the stock

38HTMX's CEO has mandated "No AI Fridays", one day a week with AI off, and a bet the industry can testArtificial IntelligenceAug 30, 2026

HTMX's CEO has mandated "No AI Fridays", one day a week with AI off, and a bet the industry can test

39Launch day for NASA's Roman Space Telescope: a 100x-Hubble eye on dark energy rides a Falcon HeavyScience & FrontierAug 30, 2026

Launch day for NASA's Roman Space Telescope: a 100x-Hubble eye on dark energy rides a Falcon Heavy

40Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and its founders, seeking potentially billions over pirated training dataBusiness & IndustryAug 30, 2026

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and its founders, seeking potentially billions over pirated training data

41Three US cities a day cancelled Flock surveillance contracts in August, a fourfold surge the company says is dwarfed by new salesPolicy & DefenseAug 29, 2026

Three US cities a day cancelled Flock surveillance contracts in August, a fourfold surge the company says is dwarfed by new sales

42US terrorism designation hits a 25-year-old volunteer-run activist email host, and its main domain just went darkPolicy & DefenseAug 29, 2026

US terrorism designation hits a 25-year-old volunteer-run activist email host, and its main domain just went dark

43Fourteen days from frontier launch to open weights: Z.ai's GLM-5.3, cyber skills nobody trained it for included, is now downloadableArtificial IntelligenceAug 29, 2026

Fourteen days from frontier launch to open weights: Z.ai's GLM-5.3, cyber skills nobody trained it for included, is now downloadable

44Federal judge vacates the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as First Amendment retaliation, calling it "illegal and baseless"Policy & DefenseAug 29, 2026

Federal judge vacates the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as First Amendment retaliation, calling it "illegal and baseless"

45Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B: the open-model commons gets a chip-vendor ownerBusiness & IndustryAug 28, 2026

Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B: the open-model commons gets a chip-vendor owner

46Google Search quietly becomes a travel agent: AI Mode now tracks flight prices, counts your miles, and books the hotelArtificial IntelligenceAug 28, 2026

Google Search quietly becomes a travel agent: AI Mode now tracks flight prices, counts your miles, and books the hotel

47Ring makes 'Throw Away the Key' encryption the default for cloud video, and it's not end-to-endSecurityAug 26, 2026

Ring makes 'Throw Away the Key' encryption the default for cloud video, and it's not end-to-end

48Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe doesn't just transcribe you, it edits youArtificial IntelligenceAug 26, 2026

Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe doesn't just transcribe you, it edits you

49Meta settles the teen-safety suits: the caps, curfews, and age checks Congress could not passPolicy & DefenseAug 26, 2026

Meta settles the teen-safety suits: the caps, curfews, and age checks Congress could not pass

50Apple prices the local-AI era: M6 Mac Mini jumps $200, and a 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio wants trillion-parameter models on your deskHardware & DevicesAug 25, 2026

Apple prices the local-AI era: M6 Mac Mini jumps $200, and a 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio wants trillion-parameter models on your desk

51A Linux binary that is also a SQLite database: the SELF prototype turns strip into a DELETE and patchelf into an UPDATEArtificial IntelligenceAug 25, 2026

A Linux binary that is also a SQLite database: the SELF prototype turns strip into a DELETE and patchelf into an UPDATE

52The subpoena is the small story: 15 state attorneys general want to police how OpenAI tests its own modelsPolicy & DefenseAug 25, 2026

The subpoena is the small story: 15 state attorneys general want to police how OpenAI tests its own models

53The AI Model Lifespan Tracker: We Dated Every API Model Retirement at OpenAI, Google and AnthropicArtificial IntelligenceAug 24, 2026

The AI Model Lifespan Tracker: We Dated Every API Model Retirement at OpenAI, Google and Anthropic

54Claude guesses what you want, Codex does what it's told: a week on the other coding agent has Hacker News picking sidesArtificial IntelligenceAug 23, 2026

Claude guesses what you want, Codex does what it's told: a week on the other coding agent has Hacker News picking sides

55Uber's record €825M GDPR fine was forced by the drivers it suspended, and they're building a company to do it againPolicy & DefenseAug 23, 2026

Uber's record €825M GDPR fine was forced by the drivers it suspended, and they're building a company to do it again

56US formally moves to erase the Roadless Rule: 59 million acres opened to roads, drinking water for 47 million on the linePolicy & DefenseAug 23, 2026

US formally moves to erase the Roadless Rule: 59 million acres opened to roads, drinking water for 47 million on the line

57China's flush-door-handle crackdown: Tesla's near-3-million-car recall is only the headlineHardware & DevicesAug 22, 2026

China's flush-door-handle crackdown: Tesla's near-3-million-car recall is only the headline

58NSA, FBI and CISA warn that AI-written exploits are now targeting the machines that run US infrastructureSecurityAug 22, 2026

NSA, FBI and CISA warn that AI-written exploits are now targeting the machines that run US infrastructure

59One expired 5-euro nameserver made a researcher the phone-routing authority for three territories, and the logs filled with military callsSecurityAug 22, 2026

One expired 5-euro nameserver made a researcher the phone-routing authority for three territories, and the logs filled with military calls

60Nvidia is buying grid capacity, not just chips: minority stake in data-center power middleman Cloverleaf, days after $1.5B into SB EnergyBusiness & IndustryAug 22, 2026

Nvidia is buying grid capacity, not just chips: minority stake in data-center power middleman Cloverleaf, days after $1.5B into SB Energy