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    Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

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    Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

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    Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

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    SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

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    Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

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    The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 16, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case Ars Technica
  2. Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam The Verge
  3. You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks The Verge
  4. Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations TechCrunch
  5. Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want Wired
  6. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground Ars Technica
  7. The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI Wired
  9. Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba The Verge
  10. This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. Job titles of the future: Space travel agent MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks” MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations Hugging Face
  14. The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop Ars Technica
  15. Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets Hugging Face
  16. Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release Ars Technica
  17. What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML Hugging Face
  18. Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis Hugging Face
  19. Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  20. Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  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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