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91The AI Climate Pledge Gap: We Tracked Every Major AI Company Building Gas Plants While Promising Net ZeroPolicy & DefenseAug 11, 2026

The AI Climate Pledge Gap: We Tracked Every Major AI Company Building Gas Plants While Promising Net Zero

92Zuckerberg's 6,500-word manifesto: superintelligence for everyone, fewer rules for AI labsArtificial IntelligenceAug 11, 2026

Zuckerberg's 6,500-word manifesto: superintelligence for everyone, fewer rules for AI labs

93Apple went to a sanctioned Chinese chipmaker for cheaper memory. The chipmaker said no.Hardware & DevicesAug 10, 2026

Apple went to a sanctioned Chinese chipmaker for cheaper memory. The chipmaker said no.

94A $5 billion stealth startup is trying to reinvent chip manufacturing. Its biggest backer just nearly collapsed.Hardware & DevicesAug 10, 2026

A $5 billion stealth startup is trying to reinvent chip manufacturing. Its biggest backer just nearly collapsed.

95He used Claude to build an astronomy app. It silently cloned someone else's open-source project, bugs and all.Artificial IntelligenceAug 10, 2026

He used Claude to build an astronomy app. It silently cloned someone else's open-source project, bugs and all.

96The Verification Inversion: Why Checking AI's Work Became Harder Than Producing ItArtificial IntelligenceAug 9, 2026

The Verification Inversion: Why Checking AI's Work Became Harder Than Producing It

97Five suicides in one month at US Cyber Command expose the human cost of AI-accelerated cyber warfarePolicy & DefenseAug 9, 2026

Five suicides in one month at US Cyber Command expose the human cost of AI-accelerated cyber warfare

98OpenAI quietly acquired a presentation startup months ago. The announcement just landed.Business & IndustryAug 9, 2026

OpenAI quietly acquired a presentation startup months ago. The announcement just landed.

99AI scrapers killed Gentoo's bug tracker. The open-source project had already banned AI.Artificial IntelligenceAug 8, 2026

AI scrapers killed Gentoo's bug tracker. The open-source project had already banned AI.

100DeepMind's hurricane model bought forecasters an extra day. Nobody knows why it works.Science & FrontierAug 8, 2026

DeepMind's hurricane model bought forecasters an extra day. Nobody knows why it works.

101Denmark made students defend their essays out loud. It's the first national admission that AI broke written homework.Policy & DefenseAug 8, 2026

Denmark made students defend their essays out loud. It's the first national admission that AI broke written homework.

102A man built a 'chatbot' that's just him answering questions by hand. 30,000 people chose it over ChatGPT.Artificial IntelligenceAug 7, 2026

A man built a 'chatbot' that's just him answering questions by hand. 30,000 people chose it over ChatGPT.

103ChatGPT's fastest-growing markets are Haiti, Tanzania, and Papua New Guinea, not Silicon ValleyBusiness & IndustryAug 7, 2026

ChatGPT's fastest-growing markets are Haiti, Tanzania, and Papua New Guinea, not Silicon Valley

104A judge ordered Meta to pay $942 million for failing to protect kids, and its stock barely movedPolicy & DefenseAug 7, 2026

A judge ordered Meta to pay $942 million for failing to protect kids, and its stock barely moved

105The Atoms Wall: Why AI's Real Limit Is Silicon, Electricity, and Concrete, Not IntelligenceHardware & DevicesAug 7, 2026

The Atoms Wall: Why AI's Real Limit Is Silicon, Electricity, and Concrete, Not Intelligence

106UAE's $6.3 billion Japan data center is one node in a $100 billion AI infrastructure empireBusiness & IndustryAug 7, 2026

UAE's $6.3 billion Japan data center is one node in a $100 billion AI infrastructure empire

107AI memory chip euphoria hits its sharpest valuation test as SK Hynix plunges 9% after Sandisk and Western Digital disappointBusiness & IndustryAug 6, 2026

AI memory chip euphoria hits its sharpest valuation test as SK Hynix plunges 9% after Sandisk and Western Digital disappoint

108Anthropic confirms it is building custom silicon for Claude, making custom chips the price of entry for every top AI labHardware & DevicesAug 6, 2026

Anthropic confirms it is building custom silicon for Claude, making custom chips the price of entry for every top AI lab

109Black Hat: A security researcher and AI together discovered a new class of web vulnerability that neither could find aloneSecurityAug 6, 2026

Black Hat: A security researcher and AI together discovered a new class of web vulnerability that neither could find alone

110Google loses the engineers who built modern AI: Jeff Dean departs with three top scientists for Discovery Loop as Hassabis steps into chair roleBusiness & IndustryAug 6, 2026

Google loses the engineers who built modern AI: Jeff Dean departs with three top scientists for Discovery Loop as Hassabis steps into chair role

111OpenAI's education plugins turn ChatGPT from an answer engine into classroom infrastructure, free for K-12 teachers through 2027Business & IndustryAug 5, 2026

OpenAI's education plugins turn ChatGPT from an answer engine into classroom infrastructure, free for K-12 teachers through 2027

112AI meeting notetakers surge as Wispr Flow enters a crowded market where privacy is an afterthoughtArtificial IntelligenceAug 5, 2026

AI meeting notetakers surge as Wispr Flow enters a crowded market where privacy is an afterthought

113The Provenance Trap: Why Every System for Proving Content Was Human-Made Is FailingArtificial IntelligenceAug 4, 2026

The Provenance Trap: Why Every System for Proving Content Was Human-Made Is Failing

114Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with a months-old startup, routing compute through a bitcoin miner's Norway data centerBusiness & IndustryAug 4, 2026

Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with a months-old startup, routing compute through a bitcoin miner's Norway data center

115Samsung is pulling smart TV apps that secretly turned millions of TVs into proxy nodes for AI data scrapersSecurityAug 3, 2026

Samsung is pulling smart TV apps that secretly turned millions of TVs into proxy nodes for AI data scrapers

116A viral blog post names the next AI workplace dysfunction: the 'meat proxy'Artificial IntelligenceAug 3, 2026

A viral blog post names the next AI workplace dysfunction: the 'meat proxy'

117Sequoia just bet $1 billion that nuclear reactors belong inside AI data centersHardware & DevicesAug 3, 2026

Sequoia just bet $1 billion that nuclear reactors belong inside AI data centers

118Horizon3 tripled to a $2 billion valuation in 14 months selling AI that hacks your network before attackers doBusiness & IndustryAug 3, 2026

Horizon3 tripled to a $2 billion valuation in 14 months selling AI that hacks your network before attackers do

119Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max nearly triples its autonomous coding score and promises open weights for a 2.4-trillion-parameter modelArtificial IntelligenceAug 3, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max nearly triples its autonomous coding score and promises open weights for a 2.4-trillion-parameter model

120One absurd frog prompt is exposing how differently every major LLM handles a bizarrely specific visual instructionArtificial IntelligenceAug 3, 2026

One absurd frog prompt is exposing how differently every major LLM handles a bizarrely specific visual instruction