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    OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

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    Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

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The rest of the wire for August 11, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution Ars Technica
  2. AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS Hugging Face
  4. What happens to Bose when headphones become AI? The Verge
  5. The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex” MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact Wired
  7. Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era? Ars Technica
  8. Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure The Verge
  9. The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview Wired
  10. Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale Hugging Face
  11. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source Hugging Face
  14. Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How Wired
  15. These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes Wired
  16. DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists Ars Technica
  17. TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? Hugging Face
  18. AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  22. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  25. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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