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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs · AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost…

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    Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

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    AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content

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    This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

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    Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline

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    Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

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    Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

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The rest of the wire for October 16, 2026 — 21 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Love is infrastructure MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  3. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  4. When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off TechCrunch
  5. ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now The Verge
  6. Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch The Verge
  7. The tech backlash is now in theaters The Verge
  8. We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView Wired
  9. AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For Wired
  10. Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint Hugging Face
  11. Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps TechCrunch
  12. Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Ars Technica
  13. Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling. Ars Technica
  14. Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers Hugging Face
  15. Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam Ars Technica
  16. AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science Wired
  17. Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins Ars Technica
  18. Google DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  21. Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
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