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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M… · Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

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    Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

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    Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

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    Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

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    The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

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    AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

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    Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 10, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes Wired
  2. An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country The Verge
  3. DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists Ars Technica
  4. How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs Wired
  5. Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore The Verge
  6. Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough The Verge
  7. TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? Hugging Face
  8. OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive” Ars Technica
  9. The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses Wired
  11. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Ars Technica
  13. ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic Ars Technica
  14. AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  15. The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 Hugging Face
  17. IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Puzzle Corner MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  19. Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  21. Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face
  22. GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft 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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