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OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team · Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup…

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    OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

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    Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

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    Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

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    Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

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

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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 17, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ TechCrunch
  2. ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes The Verge
  3. The CPU Comeback Is Upon Us IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  4. Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot The Verge
  5. Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out Wired
  6. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case Ars Technica
  7. Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want Wired
  8. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground Ars Technica
  9. The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI Wired
  11. This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Job titles of the future: Space travel agent MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks” MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations Hugging Face
  15. The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop Ars Technica
  16. Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets Hugging Face
  17. Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release Ars Technica
  18. What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML Hugging Face
  19. Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis Hugging Face
  20. Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  21. Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge 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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