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- Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
- AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
- This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
- Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
- Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
- Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
The last 30 days
A brief every day for 30 days running.
Every brief
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October 2026
- 15 Thu How much more can nuclear power plants give? · Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind
- 14 Wed An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant… · The Download
- 13 Tue TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 · DLSS 5 gets toned down for its Hogwarts Legacy debut next…
- 12 Mon Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI… · This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready…
- 11 Sun Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are… · I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
- 10 Sat AI agent makers are promising privacy · AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
- 09 Fri TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days · The Download
- 08 Thu Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your… · Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the…
- 07 Wed Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector · Google’s new SynthID website can identify AI-generated…
- 06 Tue Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best… · OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded…
- 05 Mon OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image… · Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to…
- 04 Sun Amazon responds to data center backlash · The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100…
- 03 Sat Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse… · Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and…
- 02 Fri The Download · AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
- 01 Thu "An AI did it" is no defense · Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M…
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September 2026
- 30 Wed OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store… · Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under…
- 29 Tue OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents… · Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact
- 28 Mon Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis… · The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t
- 27 Sun Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing… · Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through…
- 26 Sat Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing… · Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’…
- 25 Fri OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in… · The Download
- 24 Thu OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in… · AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week
- 23 Wed OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming… · AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs
- 22 Tue Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the… · Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
- 21 Mon Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want… · The Download
- 20 Sun Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other… · Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
- 19 Sat Forget the AI Slowdown · Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
- 18 Fri Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. · Flash floods can strike without warning
- 17 Thu Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety · Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech
- 16 Wed The Download · A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
- 15 Tue Jensen Huang took a call from Trump · The Download
- 14 Mon Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms · Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following…
- 13 Sun AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power · OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
- 12 Sat I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China · OpenAI just wants to win
- 11 Fri Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill… · Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech
- 10 Thu Read the Apple document explaining how new listening… · Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
- 09 Wed Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on… · Students who use AI generally score worse at school
- 08 Tue This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their… · This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan…
- 07 Mon The Download · The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data…
- 06 Sun OpenAI confirms… · OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
- 05 Sat OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website · XDOF, just three months out of stealth
- 04 Fri Why AI food looks like that · Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a…
- 03 Thu Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’… · This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
- 02 Wed OpenAI’s hacker-grade model, Anthropic cuts agent prices, and the EU tightens the leash on ChatGPT
- 01 Tue The Pentagon gets its own ChatGPT, Instagram unmasks AI accounts, and the labs warn about their own security
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August 2026
- 31 Mon New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be… · ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety…
- 30 Sun The record labels sue Anthropic, a court calls Trump's blacklist illegal, and AI agents get hands
- 29 Sat Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters · The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in…
- 28 Fri Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest… · Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by…
- 27 Thu Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot · How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and…
- 26 Wed Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now… · India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes…
- 25 Tue Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly… · Wire It, Run It, Deploy It
- 24 Mon Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? · Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household
- 23 Sun Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its… · Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni
- 22 Sat The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom · Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
- 21 Fri The Single English County Saying No to Palantir · AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid…
- 20 Thu Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the… · OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer…
- 19 Wed Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the… · Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration
- 18 Tue Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to… · Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
- 17 Mon OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team · Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup…
- 16 Sun Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform… · Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
- 15 Sat The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From… · Suspecting court of using AI
- 14 Fri The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI · Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the…
- 13 Thu Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks… · The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
- 12 Wed Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as… · Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers…
- 11 Tue Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people… · OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender…
- 10 Mon Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M… · Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
- 09 Sun Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest… · OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
- 08 Sat OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over… · After Rippling blew millions on AI in months
- 07 Fri OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for… · One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped…
- 06 Thu OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is… · Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been…
- 05 Wed A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of… · NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect…
- 04 Tue After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI… · Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?
- 03 Mon Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for… · A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI…
- 02 Sun Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for… · Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in…
- 01 Sat Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for… · OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents…
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July 2026
- 31 Fri Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During… · Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough…
- 30 Thu Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI · Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will…
- 29 Wed OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face · The AI Hype Index
- 28 Tue PSA · OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But…
- 27 Mon Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after… · This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
- 26 Sun Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for… · Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for…
- 25 Sat I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad · Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman
- 24 Fri Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet · Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due…
- 23 Thu The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About… · OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to…
- 22 Wed OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face · Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350…
- 21 Tue Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing · Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is…
- 20 Mon AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring · What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
- 19 Sun Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was… · Kimi
- 18 Sat Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out · Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent
- 17 Fri It's official · A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its…
- 16 Thu Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230… · Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an…
- 15 Wed Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with… · OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on…
- 14 Tue Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to… · New York becomes the first state to enact a data center…
- 13 Mon Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features · Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
- 12 Sun Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after… · Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
- 11 Sat Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after… · Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
- 10 Fri Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group · Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters
- 09 Thu Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US · Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to…
- 08 Wed Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image · Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
- 07 Tue Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It… · Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure…
- 06 Mon Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding… · LeRobot v0.6.0
- 05 Sun New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of… · Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details…
- 04 Sat The only AI glossary you’ll need this year · The browser wars aren’t about search anymore
- 03 Fri The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m… · Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t…
- 02 Thu After spooking Trump into safety testing · Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses…
- 01 Wed Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to… · The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring
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June 2026
- 30 Tue Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each… · The AI jobs debate just got messier
- 29 Mon This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office… · China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
- 28 Sun SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about… · Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is…
- 27 Sat Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more… · OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request
- 26 Fri How Qatar Became FIFA’s Technology Test Lab · Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to…
- 25 Thu IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology · British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction…
- 24 Wed This flying solar-powered platform could deliver better… · All challenges big and small
- 23 Tue Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly… · The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
- 22 Mon The Download · Read this before you vibe-code another app
- 21 Sun Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI… · In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
- 20 Sat 3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for… · From PGP to Mythos
- 19 Fri 3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for… · A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s…
- 18 Thu The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks.… · Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
- 17 Wed SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60… · Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called…
- 16 Tue Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over… · SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
- 15 Mon Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following… · As AI agents become employees
- 14 Sun Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following… · Amazon security research reportedly led to the White…
- 13 Sat Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do · A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False…
- 12 Fri You do your own time · You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
- 11 Thu Job titles of the future · Inside soccer’s data renaissance
- 10 Wed Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its… · Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks…
- 09 Tue As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning… · Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new…
- 08 Mon The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana · Building Pakistan Notice Helper
- 07 Sun The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana · OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data…
- 06 Sat Thousand Token Wood · Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in…
- 05 Fri OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals · Why Apple Might Put Cameras Into Its Next AirPods
- 04 Thu Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s… · Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65
- 03 Wed The Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers… · Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Look Hell-Bent on Disruption
- 02 Tue Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity… · Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman
- 01 Mon The Download · An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped…
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May 2026
- 31 Sun How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry · SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build…
- 30 Sat Startup offers free home cleaning · Coders are refusing to work without AI
- 29 Fri Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design… · How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for…
- 28 Thu Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a… · Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next?
- 27 Wed US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI… · Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
- 25 Mon The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race · AI with Model-Based Design
- 24 Sun AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots · Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans
- 23 Sat AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots · Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs…
- 22 Fri The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem · The Enhanced Games fit right in with the rest of 2026’s…
- 21 Thu In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor · The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots
- 20 Wed The future of Google is a search box that does everything · Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels…
- 19 Tue Here’s why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI · Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
- 18 Mon How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is… · Agentic AI for Robot Teams
- 17 Sun OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product… · The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
- 16 Sat Musk v. Altman week 3 · YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to…
- 15 Fri Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’ · The world is on track to miss its health targets
- 14 Thu Meta’s New Reality · The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn
- 13 Wed Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to… · Data centers are coming for rural America
- 12 Tue Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI… · Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually…
- 11 Mon CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company · I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now…
- 10 Sun Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it… · So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s…
- 09 Sat Musk v. Altman week 2 · Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better…
- 08 Fri MedQA · Why you can never get your doctor to call you back
- 07 Thu Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’… · What’s next for IVF
- 06 Wed Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated… · Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel…
- 05 Tue Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial… · As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI…
- 04 Mon Musk v. Altman week 1 · ‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
- 03 Sun Musk v. Altman week 1 · AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for…
- 02 Sat Musk v. Altman week 1 · Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft
- 01 Fri How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider · ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India
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April 2026
- 30 Thu Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk · Reid Hoffman Thinks Doctors Should Ask AI for a Second…
- 29 Wed At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship · Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a…
- 28 Tue Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s… · Jury selection in Musk v. Altman
- 27 Mon To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity · Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent…
- 26 Sun Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent… · Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
- 25 Sat Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic · Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
- 24 Fri Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like… · US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China…
- 23 Thu India’s app market is booming · Tesla just increased its spending plan to $25B
- 22 Wed Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it… · SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy…
- 21 Tue A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China · Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful