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Aug 05, 2026 153

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will...

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Aug 05, 2026 209

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions a...

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Aug 05, 2026 121

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation...

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Aug 05, 2026 54

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores...

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Aug 05, 2026 182

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

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Aug 05, 2026 52

PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides

Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained jointly on tissue tiles and clini...

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Aug 05, 2026 96

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discov...

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Aug 05, 2026 125

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals 

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue t...

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Aug 05, 2026 259

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help ...

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Aug 05, 2026 135

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

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Aug 05, 2026 127

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it w...

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Aug 05, 2026 86

Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.