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    New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

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    ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

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    ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

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    Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

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    Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

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    Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

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The rest of the wire for August 31, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers TechCrunch
  2. You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters Wired
  3. Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results. Ars Technica
  4. The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them TechCrunch
  5. Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem TechCrunch
  6. Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining TechCrunch
  7. Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored Wired
  8. The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn Wired
  9. How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer Wired
  10. Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Ars Technica
  11. The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language Hugging Face
  14. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them. VentureBeat
  16. The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  17. When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer VentureBeat
  18. Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents VentureBeat
  19. New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers Hugging Face
  21. Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built Hugging Face
  22. Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original Hugging Face
  23. AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  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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