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AI News
Aug 22, 2026 46

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

AI News
Aug 22, 2026 46

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as...

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Aug 21, 2026 130

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that i...

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Aug 21, 2026 257

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

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Aug 21, 2026 110

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. A...

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Aug 21, 2026 141

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that ...

AI News
Aug 21, 2026 106

The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks...

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Aug 21, 2026 99

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

AI News
Aug 21, 2026 75

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted video...

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Aug 21, 2026 71

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

AI News
Aug 21, 2026 74

How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript

In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the...

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Aug 21, 2026 36

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.