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Aug 07, 2026 161

Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic ...

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Aug 07, 2026 130

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standa...

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Aug 07, 2026 140

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those job...

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Aug 07, 2026 105

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses le...

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Aug 07, 2026 97

Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing ...

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Aug 07, 2026 91

How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch

Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With ove...

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Aug 07, 2026 171

Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

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Aug 07, 2026 99

Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as i...

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Aug 07, 2026 150

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case

Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case

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Aug 07, 2026 69

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

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Aug 07, 2026 83

Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI

Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citin...

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Aug 06, 2026 39

OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400

Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.