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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is… · Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been…

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    Rules & power 1 source

    OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

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    Your work 1 source

    OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

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    Everyday life 1 source

    OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts

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    Your work 1 source

    Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

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    Builders 1 source

    Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 6, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders TechCrunch
  2. Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com Ars Technica
  3. Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch Ars Technica
  4. The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop Wired
  5. Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup TechCrunch
  6. AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse Wired
  7. IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  8. Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo The Verge
  9. Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership The Verge
  10. Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google TechCrunch
  11. Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4 Ars Technica
  12. Puzzle Corner MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  15. NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  17. Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face
  18. The Download: US robot restrictions and ICE’s DNA grab MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  19. Fridays With Bob IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft Hugging Face
  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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