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8:36

AI-generated bills are reportedly causing problems in...

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2026/08/19

-Politico's sources said lawyers at the US House Office of Legislative Counsel are spending more time reviewing and rewriting them than they would have if they had written the bills from scratch.-In one case, reported by 404 Media, a CBP agent was spotted recording with his glasses despite the policy. In another instance, a member of Border Patrol wore a pair to an immigration raid. -On X, replying is weighted much more heavily than liking, despite replies accounting for under seven percent of

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6:46

Another woman joins the lawsuit accusing Grok of...

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2026/08/18

A Wyoming woman said that her stepfather created thousands of fake sexually explicit images of her through the AI chatbot.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:26

Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in its latest...

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2026/08/18

-Claims from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by intentionally misleading the public about the safety of its apps. -This memorandum applies to all AI models from ByteDance, including those used on TikTok, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut and Dreamina. -Reddit describes the test as a "limited experiment" affecting "a sample of posts across select communities" on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:30

DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more

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2026/08/17

Prices at off-peak hours will be half the peak-hour pricing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:48

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team as...

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2026/08/17

-Several departures have led to concerns that the company is ignoring safety in favor of growth -As first reported by the Washington Post, the woman, named as Jane Doe 4 in the lawsuit, said that her stepfather used Grok to create "thousands of sexually explicit images of her as a child and traded them online." -The company said its text watermarking will not have easy-to-see visuals, will not be distinguishable to the people who read it and will not be adding hidden characters to the text. Learn

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6:02

Meta is giving away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and...

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2026/08/14

It's one way to change the perception of the glasses.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:14

DeepSeek's AI models pricing to rise 4x, Apple sent...

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2026/08/14

-The company said it's adopting a new peak and off-peak pricing to "allocate resources more reasonably," starting on August 16-Most users will never be targeted by mercenary spyware, but they're also difficult to detect and prevent.” -Traditionally, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, one of the main laws that criminalizes hacking, unauthorized computer access and other cyberattacks, has applied to private companies and individuals alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:36

Government workers can officially waste time...

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2026/08/13

The app was banned from government devices in 2022.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:13

Virgin Galactic postponed its new spaceship's first...

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2026/08/13

-The company had been preparing for the new spaceship's debut later this year and was originally planning to put it through a series of tests over the next few months leading up to its first commercial flight in the fourth quarter of this year.-Whereas the company previously said flight cancellations were "verified from FlightAware," something FlightAware specifically took issue with in its lawsuit, now Kalshi says outcomes are "verified from Primary Source Agency." -Glasses like Meta's could be

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6:41

OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more...

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2026/08/12

GPT-5.6-Cyber for the Daybreak program is ‘less likely to refuse higher-risk tasks.’Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:43

Kalshi is being sued for using data without...

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2026/08/12

-FlightAware echoed the concerns of the airline industry that prediction markets for flights incentivized the "mass disruption of air travel" for anyone who wants to make money on the platform. -The AI Persona label will begin appearing in mid-September, initially on mobile on an artist's profile, in search and on playlists' track rows. -The DoJ said the 2022 law no longer applies because the current version of TikTok has American owners and relies on a different recommendation algorithm than the

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6:18

The FCC wants to ban drones with LiDAR that it...

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2026/08/11

This would include several models from DJI, including the consumer-level Air 3S and Mini Pro 5.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:46

OpenAI is giving Daybreak partners access to a more...

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2026/08/11

-OpenAI says the companies will use the cyber models available through Daybreak to protect their customers. -Meta said that it's making the "weights" that AI systems use to choose responses available to everyone on Hugging Face along with developer documentation. The download is available for free, and users can run the model on their own PCs. -Bill Simpson-Young, co-founder of the Gradient Institute said, “we've built this complex world over the internet, which is all run by software, but

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6:26

Google open-sources an AI model it says can help with...

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2026/08/10

WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms’ track and intensity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:34

OpenAI is slowing down Astra’s development due to...

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2026/08/10

-In a post on its website, OpenAI said internal evaluations of its upcoming model, called Astra, showed "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," resulting in OpenAI not being able to "rule out critical cyber capabilities." -Wind turbine projects will be cancelled near New York, California and Louisiana. As part of the agreement, RWE has agreed to spend $900 million to acquire a 16 percent stake in a Louisiana liquified natural gas project . -The FCC is proposing to prohibit

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6:14

Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent

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2026/08/07

The terminal-based coding tool is powered by a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:06

Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its...

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2026/08/07

-According to US cybersecurity startup Frontier, Kimi K3 broke out of a sandbox from the UK government's AI Security Institute while its defensive cybersecurity skills were being evaluated.-Scientists at Palo Alto's Arc Institute and Stanford University created the viruses with the genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2. -Tropical cyclones pose a unique challenge to predict because global atmospheric currents that determine a storm's path have traditionally been best analyzed by coarser global

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6:40

We just got our first real look at how small X's ad...

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2026/08/06

Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:43

OpenAI's agents shared exploits through a message...

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2026/08/06

-OpenAI discovered and shut down the message board on July 4, but the agents found another way to rebuild it for communication by the 8th. -Known as mFlusiva, the immunization is effective against the four most common strains of influenza and has been in human testing trials since 2021 -The new terminal-based coding tool is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a new version of Meta's AI model which offers "improvements in code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, and end-to-end developer

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6:12

Apple is working on a seamless copy-paste experience...

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2026/08/05

The company is hoping to finish its development by fall 2027.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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