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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for… · One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped…

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    OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400

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    One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

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    Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

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    Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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    Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents

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    ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 7, 2026 — 24 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  2. Large genome models used to design new viruses Ars Technica
  3. Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music The Verge
  4. ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users TechCrunch
  5. Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company TechCrunch
  6. DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else Wired
  7. Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders Ars Technica
  8. Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking TechCrunch
  9. SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal The Verge
  10. The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 Hugging Face
  12. IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  13. Puzzle Corner MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  17. Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  18. Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face
  19. GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft Hugging Face
  20. The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face
  21. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  22. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  23. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  24. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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