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Flight attendants freaked out that Google to buy tons of Spirit employee data
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
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Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.  Silicon Data […]
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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-
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Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
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TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
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Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie
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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
It's the data, stupid.
MIT
The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…
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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…
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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
How to Tell When a Benchmark Is Worth Trusting
AI benchmark scores can mislead when used for critical decisions. This guide outlines seven essential checks—from data contamination to reproducibility and model cheating—for determining whether a benchmark result is trustworthy.
MLPerf Client v2.0 Expands AI PC Benchmarking with Image Generation and Agentic AI
MLCommons has announced the release of MLPerf Client v2.0, the latest version of its industry-standard benchmark for PC AI performance, introducing new image generation and agentic AI test categories alongside upgraded LLM inference workloads.
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic Workflows
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic WorkflowsMeta Superintelligence Labs and the SGLang TeamAugust 10, 2026We're excited to partner with Meta Superin
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix Caching
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix CachingZhangheng Huang, Ke Bao, Yi Zhang, Jialin Ouyang, Sicheng PanAugust 11, 2026Introduction Prefix caching reuses KV when requests share the s
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA Nemotron Team and SGLang TeamAugust 11, 2026SGLang is excited to announce Day-0 support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a customiza
SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Qwen3.8
SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Qwen3.8SGLang TeamAug 12, 2026We are excited to announce Day-0 support for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B in SGLang and Miles. It is Qwen's largest open-source model, with 2.
Advanced CUDA Graph Techniques in SGLang
Advanced CUDA Graph Techniques in SGLangSGLang TeamAugust 17, 2026TL;DR CUDA Graphs promise to remove kernel-launch overhead, but getting close to that benefit in a real inference engine requires grap