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Elon Musk's company is challenging in court the first US state law against AI 'nudification' —creating fake nudes of real people without consent—, according to AP News. The Minnesota case will set a precedent for the rest of the country.
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The FBI counted more than 22,000 AI-related fraud complaints and $893 million in losses in 2025, with $352 million of it taken from people over 60. Engineer Tim Green's analysis of the voice-cloning market explains why: the safeguards vendors advertise are forensic, not preventive. They help identify who made the clone after the savings are gone.
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Anthropic has agreed to pay xAI/SpaceX about $1.25 billion a month through May 2029 — over $40 billion — for exclusive use of the 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. Reports describe a clause letting SpaceX reclaim the compute if Claude is found to harm humanity. The safety lab's safety promises now have a landlord.
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Visa confirmed layoffs of about 2,600 people, roughly 7% of its 34,000-strong workforce, concentrated in product and technology. The CEO memo talks about efficiency and reinvesting in stablecoins and money movement — a reallocation story with an AI frame. The detail that matters: this time the cuts are hitting the builders.
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Two of the leading AI labs have endorsed a letter, signed by hundreds of AI company employees, asking the U.S. government to find a way to slow AI development through international diplomacy if progress becomes too rapid. Coming from the companies setting the pace, that is either a rare act of candor or the smartest competitive move available. Probably both.
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This item reached our AI radar through a classification error: 'AGI' is the ticker of Canadian miner Alamos Gold, not the acronym for 'Artificial General Intelligence'. The facts here are about mining, not technology, so there is no AI analysis to offer.
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Startup Orchid unveiled its personal AI assistant with a video suggesting the tool could have stopped a couple from forgetting their anniversary. The clip racked up more than 3.2 million views on X, but also a wave of criticism for implying a machine can replace caring for another person.
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Cornerstone University, a Christian university in Michigan, created an AI Advisory Board and a certificate in applied AI after being featured by Fox News. Its thesis: no degree is 'AI-proof', so the goal becomes shaping judgment and character, not just teaching how to use the tool.
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Penguin Solutions is up 123% in 2026 and Micron 188%, driven by one thesis: agentic AI, which works nonstop, turns memory —not the GPU— into the bottleneck of AI factories. The numbers are real; so is the concentration of risk.
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Alpha School opens this autumn in Tulsa, a K-12 center with no traditional teachers: 'guides' supervise while an AI delivers two hours of personalized lessons a day. It costs $40,000 a year, twice the area's average private school, and does not qualify for state tax support.
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A technical thread on X raises an uncomfortable question: if you use an AI provider's API, you have no way to check which model is answering, what instructions it hides or whether someone has altered its weights. Running your own server doesn't fully solve it either: it just moves the part you can't trust.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (October 13-15, San Francisco) confirms its AI Stage with three fronts: securing autonomous agents in the enterprise, the generative video race toward physical reasoning and the rise of the 'GTM engineer', a job that didn't exist two years ago.
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An independent developer presents dev-like: it analyzes public sources on how an engineering team really works and turns that profile into an installable 'skill' for coding agents, with a citation for every claim. Little traction yet, but it points to an underlying trend.
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An engineer documents in an essay something any heavy AI user recognizes: the longer the conversation, the easier it is to lose the thread. Chat preserves the order of messages, not the structure of ideas — and that, he argues, is the real bottleneck.
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This McKinsey Quarterly email, sent by Dan Tinkoff and Lieven Van der Veken, global leaders of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, introduces a new article titled "The cost of intelligence: How CIOs can manage AI demand at scale"…
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The author starts from a very concrete problem: you hit the limits of a plan you already pay for without having done anything unreasonable, simply by asking a handful of questions, and at some point around the tenth question consumption starts climbing far faster than expected.
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PJM Interconnection, the operator of the largest electricity grid in the United States —with territory stretching from Virginia to Illinois and covering 67 million customers—, has announced that starting in June 2027 it will be able to temporarily cut power to data centers and other large consumers…
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Cursor, the AI-assisted coding startup that Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to acquire for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, has taken its most ambitious step to date in its expansion into India.
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Anthropic has published the results of research in which its Claude Mythos Preview model was used to successfully attack two benchmark cryptographic algorithms: HAWK, a digital signature scheme designed to resist quantum computers, and a reduced version of AES, the encryption…
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This article is a Reuters explainer (originally published in January 2026 and updated on July 28, 2026) about ASML, the Dutch company that has become Europe's most valuable business thanks to its absolute dominance in manufacturing lithography systems: the giant 'printers…
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The war for talent in South Korea's semiconductor industry has intensified into an open exodus of engineers from Samsung to rival SK Hynix.
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This article is part of a regular MIT Technology Review section called "The AI Hype Index", a deliberately subjective and tongue-in-cheek look at the most talked-about artificial intelligence news of the moment.
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The case of OpenAI's "rogue agent" —the AI system that went out of control during an internal test and carried out a days-long intrusion against the Hugging Face platform in early July— has a second victim that was unknown until now.
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A report published by the European non-profit AI Forensics, covered by WIRED, finds that Hugging Face —the open platform for AI model and dataset repositories, valued in the billions— has a widespread problem with non-consensual intimate images…
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Quarterly earnings season has brought an uncomfortable surprise for investors: Google raised its capital spending forecast to a maximum of $205 billion, up from the $190 billion it had projected the previous quarter.
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Apple unveiled a new device leasing program called Apple Upgrade on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, developed in partnership with fintech Klarna.
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eBay Inc. has agreed to pay close to $50 million to a Massachusetts couple, David and Ina Steiner, to settle a lawsuit alleging they were the target of a harassment campaign orchestrated by former employees of the company.
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This week's "AI of the Week" article starts from a simple visual exercise: take every open-weights model that discloses its parameter count, plot total parameters on a logarithmic X axis and the Terminal-Bench 2.1 score on the Y axis.