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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for October 5, 2026 — 21 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026 MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  3. Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI The Verge
  4. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment The Verge
  7. An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat The Verge
  8. Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break Wired
  9. The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike Wired
  10. Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’ The Verge
  11. Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family Wired
  12. Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Ars Technica
  13. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Ars Technica
  14. US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Ars Technica
  15. These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open Wired
  16. Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta Hugging Face
  17. AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents Hugging Face
  18. Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning Hugging Face
  19. How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog IEEE Spectrum · event.on24.com
  21. A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp IEEE Spectrum · robotsguide.com
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