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Anthropic insider’s viral resignation reaches congress

Anthropic insider’s viral resignation reaches congress

A resignation letter posted on X pulled in more than 100 million views within days and did something a decade of hearings, forums, and vetoed bills...

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Is AI slop taking over? Claude Code developer has an answerIs AI slop taking over? Claude Code developer has an answerIs AI slop taking over? Claude Code developer has an answerIs AI slop taking over? Claude Code developer has an answer

A developer wrote to Boris Cherny with a one-line subject: "What to do about slop?" Cherny says he gets versions of that email every single...

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OpenAI agents flood RubyGems with 2,000 junk packages

OpenAI agents flood RubyGems with 2,000 junk packages

More than 2,000 junk packages hit the RubyGems registry in a single day, and according to new research, none of them were written by a person at all....

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WhatsApp adds 2x speed playback for status videos

WhatsApp adds 2x speed playback for status videos

Hold your finger on the right side of a WhatsApp status, and it now plays at double speed; lift your finger, and it drops straight back to normal. No...

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX AI team to build a company live using Grok bot

Elon Musk’s SpaceX AI team to build a company live using Grok bot

You're about to watch three people build an entire company on camera, live, with no script, and their only employee is an AI agent named Grok...

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Samsung trolls Apple with Tim Cook look alike

Samsung trolls Apple with Tim Cook look alike

If you thought Apple CEO Tim Cook had suddenly switched sides and started promoting Samsung’s latest foldable, there’s a catch. The man in...

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SpaceX landed its fourth billion-dollar AI customer

SpaceX landed its fourth billion-dollar AI customer

If you've been watching SpaceX purely as a rocket company, you're missing where a big chunk of its money is actually coming from now. CFO...

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Why AI researchers are suddenly warning about humanity’s future

Why AI researchers are suddenly warning about humanity’s future

You know a story has broken out of tech circles when it's not just AI researchers debating it; it's your mom texting you to ask if it's...

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YouTube to let you lock your profile on shared TVs

YouTube to let you lock your profile on shared TVs

If someone in your house keeps hijacking your YouTube recommendations with three hours of true crime videos, you finally have a fix that doesn't...

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Goldman's top banker says you're asking the wrong AI question

Goldman's top banker says you're asking the wrong AI question

If you've been trying to figure out whether AI is heading for a crash, Goldman Sachs' top dealmaker thinks you're asking the wrong...

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Apple explains why it waited 7 years to enter foldables

Apple explains why it waited 7 years to enter foldables

If you've wondered why Apple sat out the foldable race for seven years while Samsung built an entire product line, the company's own...

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153 million driver's licences stolen in IDScan breach

153 million driver's licences stolen in IDScan breach

If you've ever had your ID scanned at a concert venue, a cannabis dispensary, or renting a car from Hertz, you might want to pay attention to...

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Bacteria can remember without brain, new study finds

Bacteria can remember without brain, new study finds

If you dropped the exact same pulse of food onto two identical bacteria, you'd expect the exact same response. That's not what happened. In...

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Why AI's own builders are suddenly begging you to slow down

Why AI's own builders are suddenly begging you to slow down

If you've noticed AI safety researchers sounding more alarmed than usual this week, you're not imagining it. A resignation at Anthropic has...

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GTA VI's first trailer was made before the game was ready: Rockstar CEO

GTA VI's first trailer was made before the game was ready: Rockstar CEO

Remember watching that first GTA VI trailer back in December 2023, rewinding it just to catch every second of Vice City? You weren't alone; it...

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Samsung’s latest Apple ad is weirdly friendly

Samsung’s latest Apple ad is weirdly friendly

Samsung had a choice hours before Apple's foldable debut: needle its rival the way it always has, or do something stranger. It picked a stranger....

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OpenAI deepens Samsung partnership to co-develop AI chips

OpenAI deepens Samsung partnership to co-develop AI chips

OpenAI is no longer just a Samsung customer; it's becoming a co-designer of the chips running inside its own products. The company confirmed...

09.09.2026 20

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Instagram's ChatGPT '80s photo trend goes viral: Here’s list of prompt to try

Instagram's ChatGPT '80s photo trend goes viral: Here’s list of prompt to try

Open Instagram this week, and the algorithm has apparently decided it's 1986. Big hair, disco lighting, grainy film stock, and a wave of...

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Microsoft finds phishers using AI prompt-injection trick

Microsoft finds phishers using AI prompt-injection trick

Microsoft's security team went looking for AI prompt-injection attacks and found something else entirely: the same invisible-character trick,...

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Authors accuse OpenAI of renaming LibGen datasets to hde their origin

Authors accuse OpenAI of renaming LibGen datasets to hde their origin

A single renamed dataset is now central to one of the biggest copyright fights in AI. Authors suing OpenAI say the company torrented books from...

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OpenAI reveals how much researchers spend on AI coding

OpenAI reveals how much researchers spend on AI coding

OpenAI's heaviest agent users now burn through more than $7,000 worth of tokens a day, but the number OpenAI seemed just as eager to disclose was...

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High-paying jobs booming despite heavy AI exposure

High-paying jobs booming despite heavy AI exposure

The Bureau of Labour Statistics just put a number on something a lot of workers have been guessing at: which jobs AI touches the most, and whether...

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86% of UK gambling sites are breaking data privacy law

86% of UK gambling sites are breaking data privacy law

Nearly nine out of ten licensed British gambling websites appear to be violating GDPR, according to a new study from Swansea University's GREAT...

06.09.2026 30

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Your AI agent can now trade your money: Should it?

Your AI agent can now trade your money: Should it?

Handing an AI system the ability to inspect your portfolio, interpret your instructions, and actually execute a trade sounds like a future scenario....

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AI model flags possible cyclone near Hong Kong

AI model flags possible cyclone near Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Observatory is watching a broad area of low pressure expected to form over the central South China Sea later this week, with an AI...

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Trump’s former AI Czar says ai debate is shifting to open vs closed

Trump’s former AI Czar says ai debate is shifting to open vs closed

David Sacks thinks the entire framing of the AI debate is about to change. In a Saturday post on X, the former White House AI and crypto czar argued...

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Is your forgotten login a hacker's backdoor? Check now

Is your forgotten login a hacker's backdoor? Check now

That Pandora account you haven't opened since 2015 is still sitting there, still holding your password, and still fully accessible to anyone who...

06.09.2026 20

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WhatsApp tests AI content labels, unofficial app warnings

WhatsApp tests AI content labels, unofficial app warnings

WhatsApp's latest round of beta features leans heavily toward safety and transparency, alongside a design update that finishes a job it started...

06.09.2026 20

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Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's landmasses move roughly 0.6 inches a year, about the same rate fingernails grow. It sounds negligible, but stretched across 200 million...

05.09.2026 30

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OpenAI admits it needs new rules for rogue AI incidents

OpenAI admits it needs new rules for rogue AI incidents

OpenAI says it's overhauling how it decides when to disclose cases of its AI agents going rogue, following reports that a swarm of them quietly...

05.09.2026 30

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White House Arcade sparks Tetris backlash over ‘build the wall’ game

White House Arcade sparks Tetris backlash over ‘build the wall’ game

The White House has launched its own browser-based arcade, and one of the games has already prompted a public rebuke. The site, live since Thursday,...

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Sam Altman’s Apple fandom gets complicated as company sues OpenAI

Sam Altman’s Apple fandom gets complicated as company sues OpenAI

Sam Altman has spent decades describing himself as an unabashed Apple devotee, which makes the company's trade secrets lawsuit against his own...

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Elon Musk picked a fight with Chess.com, it didn't go well

Elon Musk picked a fight with Chess.com, it didn't go well

Elon Musk is chasing a checkmate in his newest online spat, and this time his opponent is a chess website's social media account. It started...

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WhatsApp Beta to let you pin 4 messages: Report

WhatsApp Beta to let you pin 4 messages: Report

Three pinned messages have been the ceiling on WhatsApp for years, and busy group chats have felt that limit fast. According to WABetaInfo, there is...

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Meta glasses lawsuit now covers people who never wore them

Meta glasses lawsuit now covers people who never wore them

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are facing a legal problem that now reaches well beyond the people who actually bought them. An amended class action...

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Altman says curing cancer isn't ambitious enough for AI

Altman says curing cancer isn't ambitious enough for AI

Sam Altman thinks Silicon Valley's favourite AI pitch, 'Cure Cancer', and the sceptics will come around, but it doesn't go far...

04.09.2026 20

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US turns to AI productivity as worker income share hits record low

US turns to AI productivity as worker income share hits record low

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh are betting that AI-driven productivity will make America richer and...

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Altman apologises for GPT-6 Astra rollout locking out pro users

Altman apologises for GPT-6 Astra rollout locking out pro users

OpenAI barely finished announcing GPT-6 Astra before CEO Sam Altman was apologising for how it rolled out. Hours after Thursday's launch, he...

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153 million driver's licenses are for sale on dark web: Check details here

153 million driver's licenses are for sale on dark web: Check details here

A dark web identity theft service called Nexus began selling digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licences from people in the US and...

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Zuckerberg secretly pushed back on Trump's AI regulator plan

Zuckerberg secretly pushed back on Trump's AI regulator plan

Mark Zuckerberg raised objections to a proposed national AI regulator in a phone call with President Trump during the week of August 17, according to...

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WhatsApp beta to let you add up to 5 AI agents to chats

WhatsApp beta to let you add up to 5 AI agents to chats

WhatsApp is building a feature that lets users plug a third-party AI agent directly into a private chat, according to WABetaInfo, which spotted the...

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WhatsApp to remind you about unsent messages: Report

WhatsApp to remind you about unsent messages: Report

Type a reply mid-meeting, get pulled away, and forget to hit send. WhatsApp's latest beta feature is built for exactly that moment. The app is...

03.09.2026 30

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Apple hit with £2bn UK lawsuit over app tracking rules

Apple hit with £2bn UK lawsuit over app tracking rules

Apple is facing a £2 billion collective action at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, filed Thursday on behalf of thousands of UK app...

03.09.2026 20

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Americans are revealing their AI secrets: Here’s what they’re saying

Americans are revealing their AI secrets: Here’s what they’re saying

More than a quarter of American adults online, 27%, according to a September survey from Elon University and YouGov, say they've had significant...

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Google Vids can now turn documents into videos: Here’s how

Google Vids can now turn documents into videos: Here’s how

Nobody enjoys sitting through a 40-page training manual. Google's answer, announced today on its Workspace Updates blog, is a new "Docs to...

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Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO with $47m pay package

Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO with $47m pay package

Tim Cook gave up the corner office this week, but not much else. Apple's regulatory filing on Tuesday shows Cook will earn a $2 million salary as...

02.09.2026 20

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GTA 6 preview hits 31.1m Netflix views in 4 days

GTA 6 preview hits 31.1m Netflix views in 4 days

Grand Theft Auto 6 didn't need a full game to dominate Netflix's Top 10. The 27-minute extended look pulled 31.1 million views between its...

02.09.2026 20

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Apple CEO John Ternus's first memo: key takeaways

Apple CEO John Ternus's first memo: key takeaways

John Ternus became the eighth chief executive in Apple's 50-year history on Tuesday, and he marked it with a memo just four short paragraphs...

02.09.2026 10

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Switzerland’s new registry faces cyberattack fears ahead of launch

Switzerland's new corporate transparency registry will cover roughly 600,000 legal entities, about 20 times the attack surface of the database...

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Think your company is innovating with AI? You may be wrong

An executive team gathers to discuss AI strategy. The CEO wants growth. The CIO wants copilots. The COO wants automation. Everyone nods in agreement,...

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