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Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
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New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
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AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
WD
Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please
AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.
MIT
Scientists just created female clones of male mice
Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time. A team based in Japan used a CRISPR-based approach to remove the Y chromosome from male cells and create female clones of male mice.  “No one has done this before,” says Monika Ward, a reproductive biologist at the University of Hawaii, who…
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Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]
MIT
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…
TC
Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic is now an Android app.
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
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As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
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Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
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Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations
Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient actors and received clinical evaluator ratings on par with primary care physicians across several core measures. Fifteen trained actors portrayed conditions across cardiopulmonary, abdominal, HEENT, neurological or psychiatric, and musculoskeletal presentations. Google says studies involving real patients and their own health […] The post Google tests AMIE for clinical vid
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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
TC
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
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Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
WD
4 New Camera Tricks on Google’s Latest Pixel 11 Smartphones
From Magic Capture and Instant Night Sight to a built-in teleprompter, here’s a look at a few camera features on Google’s new Pixel 11 series.
MIT
The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people…
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Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.