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    A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals

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    NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

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    OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

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    Money 1 source

    SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company

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    Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

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    Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 5, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings Wired
  2. The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret Wired
  3. SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year TechCrunch
  4. AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat The Verge
  5. Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand Ars Technica
  6. Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you TechCrunch
  7. How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired The Verge
  8. ‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think The Verge
  9. Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  10. Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face
  11. The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own Ars Technica
  13. An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it Ars Technica
  14. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews Ars Technica
  17. Fridays With Bob IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft Hugging Face
  19. Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale 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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