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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest… · Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by…

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    Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

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    Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

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    Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

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    Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label

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    The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

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    Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for August 28, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Ars Technica
  2. AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us? Wired
  3. Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India TechCrunch
  4. He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them Wired
  5. How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules The Verge
  7. A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic Wired
  8. Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 TechCrunch
  9. Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world Ars Technica
  10. Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says Ars Technica
  11. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books The Verge
  13. Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters The Verge
  14. Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them. VentureBeat
  15. The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer VentureBeat
  17. Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents VentureBeat
  18. New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers Hugging Face
  20. Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built Hugging Face
  21. Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original Hugging Face
  22. AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio Hugging Face
  24. Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  25. What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  26. VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push VentureBeat
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