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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? · Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household

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    Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

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    Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

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    Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash

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    Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

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    The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

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    Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 24, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  2. Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI IEEE Spectrum · event.on24.com
  3. Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money The Verge
  4. The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings Ars Technica
  6. Mother tongue MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  7. When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. The Single English County Saying No to Palantir Wired
  10. Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition Hugging Face
  11. Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed The Verge
  12. Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI Wired
  13. Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark Hugging Face
  14. It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now The Verge
  15. Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted Ars Technica
  16. Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data Ars Technica
  17. I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot Wired
  18. Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians Ars Technica
  19. VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push VentureBeat
  20. How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? Hugging Face
  21. Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers Hugging Face
  22. From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  24. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  25. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  26. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
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