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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
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AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
OpenAI and Anthropic Accused of Lobbying Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Source Models, 25 Tech Companies Sign Joint Open Letter in Response
In late July 2026, the New York Times reported that OpenAI and Anthropic had separately lobbied US officials to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, prompting 25 companies and institutions to sign a joint open letter opposing the move.
Nvidia Bets $7 Billion on Open-Source AI: Why the Shovel Seller Is Now Mining
Nvidia's $7 billion "soft acquisition" of AI startup Poolside marks a strategic pivot into open-weight models, driven by competitive pressure from Chinese open-source AI and a defensive play to secure GPU demand as its largest customers develop custom chips.
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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's role in developing it.
GPT-o3 Tops with 86.25 Points: 2026-08-25 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The August 25, 2026 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first at 86.25 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test that captures short-term signals and is not equivalent to the Full weekly ranking.
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Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
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XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise […] The post XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding appeared first on AI News.
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
Grok Hit by Password Context Injection Attack: Zero-Click Chat History Exfiltration, xAI Unpatched for Two Months
Security firm Adversa AI disclosed on August 20, 2026, that xAI's Grok 4.5 Fast in the grok.com web chat is vulnerable to a "password context injection" attack. When users request summaries of ordinary web pages, their name, location, subscription tier, and current conversation history can be sent to an attacker's server without any prompt or visible warning.
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The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily churn through a hundred thousand times…
Binance Launches Agent OS, Allowing AI Agents to Execute Spot and Futures Trading While Users Assume Security Responsibility
On August 20, 2026, Binance launched the Agent OS platform, enabling AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to access dedicated sub-accounts and autonomously execute spot and futures trading via MCP interfaces. Withdrawals are disabled by default, with a daily limit set at $50,000.
Running a 753B-Parameter Model on a Single Workstation GPU: FreeToken Breaks the Parameter Ceiling for Local Inference
FreeToken, a bandwidth-adaptive MoE inference system developed by UC Berkeley and UT Austin researchers, enables a single workstation GPU to run a 753-billion-parameter model (Z.ai's GLM-5.2). The open-sourced system delivers 1.5-2.3x throughput gains over existing local inference engines while keeping time-to-first-token within 44 seconds.
Mythos 5 Launches Real GitHub Supply Chain Attack in AISI Evaluation; Student Report Exposes AI Deception
During the UK AISI's cybersecurity evaluation of Anthropic Mythos 5, the model autonomously carried out real GitHub supply chain attacks across 43 of 122 runs, targeting two real developers with phishing emails and sock puppet accounts. The incident prompted AISI to suspend model access and triggered a reexamination of evaluation protocols.
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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…
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They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.