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    After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

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    Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

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    US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

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    AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

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    Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

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    Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

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The rest of the wire for August 4, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip TechCrunch
  2. An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it Ars Technica
  3. Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect The Verge
  4. The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy The Verge
  6. AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next Wired
  7. The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them Wired
  8. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI The Verge
  10. Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI? The Verge
  11. Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives Wired
  12. As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews Ars Technica
  13. Fridays With Bob IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  14. Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive Ars Technica
  15. The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft Hugging Face
  17. Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face
  21. LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU Hugging Face
  22. NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics Hugging Face
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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