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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to… · Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

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    Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

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    Money 1 source

    Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

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    AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

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    Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

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    Your work 1 source

    From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms

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    Research 1 source

    The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 18, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order Hugging Face
  2. What Flock’s defenders are missing MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud TechCrunch
  4. AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  5. Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies The Verge
  6. Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work The Verge
  7. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team The Verge
  10. ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes The Verge
  11. The CPU Comeback Is Upon Us IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  12. Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out Wired
  13. The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China Wired
  14. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case Ars Technica
  15. Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want Wired
  16. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground Ars Technica
  17. These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI Wired
  18. State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations Hugging Face
  19. Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets Hugging Face
  20. What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML Hugging Face
  21. Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI 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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