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Meta launches California pro-AI super PAC

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Published: August 27, 2025 09:22

Reuters reports that Meta is launching a California-focused super PAC to support pro-AI candidates [reuters#1]. The move coincides with broader Silicon Valley efforts, with about $200 million pledged to new pro-AI super PACs, according to the New York…

Anthropic unveils Claude for Chrome pilot with guardrails

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Published: August 27, 2025 09:22

Anthropic introduced an invite-only pilot of “Claude for Chrome,” a browser-based AI agent that can view pages and take actions within Google’s Chrome (announced Aug. 26, 2025) [techcrunch.com#1][simonwillison.net#1]. The pilot emphasizes safety: internal…

Parents sue OpenAI; company plans ChatGPT changes

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Published: August 27, 2025 09:18

A California family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT played a role in their 16-year-old son's death by suicide; reporting says the teen had confided in the chatbot before he died in April 2025.…

Anthropic settles authors’ AI copyright lawsuit

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Published: August 27, 2025 00:46

Anthropic has reached a settlement with book authors who sued over the use of their works to train the company’s large language models, ending a high-profile case in the U.S. [wired#1][techcrunch#1]. Terms were not disclosed, but the settlement averts a…

Melania Trump launches nationwide Presidential AI Challenge for K-12 students

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Published: August 26, 2025 21:53

First lady Melania Trump announced the “Presidential AI Challenge,” a nationwide contest inviting K-12 students to participate in AI-focused projects. She said her interest in AI began after using a deepfake of herself to record her audiobook, and she will…

Google adds AI lessons and live translation to Translate

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Published: August 26, 2025 16:00

Google introduced AI-powered language learning tools and live translation features in the Google Translate app, aiming to help people learn and converse across languages in real time [google.com#1][pcmag.com#1][techcrunch.com#1]. The update includes new…

Google confirms ‘nano-banana’ is Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Published: August 26, 2025 14:00

Google confirmed that the anonymous “nano-banana” image editor surfacing on community leaderboards is its Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, coinciding with upgraded native image editing in the Gemini app [techcrunch.com#1][gizmodo.com#1][deepmind.google#1].…

Stanford study finds 13% relative decline in early‑career employment in AI‑exposed occupations

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Published: August 26, 2025 12:25

A new Stanford analysis reports a 13% relative decline in employment for early‑career workers in U.S. occupations most exposed to generative AI since these tools gained widespread adoption, while employment for older workers in the same roles remained…

Agentlink, Envelope, HyperpodAI promote AI tools

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Published: August 26, 2025 11:36

Agentlink presents a way to sync AI agent configurations across different tools [github.com#1]. Envelope markets an AI agent for event management [envelope.so#1]. HyperpodAI advertises a platform to launch and scale AI applications "in minutes"…

Addy Osmani says vibe-coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering

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Published: August 26, 2025 10:50

Addy Osmani stated that "Vibe-coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering" [twitter.com#1]. A Reddit discussion asked whether vibe coding could disrupt software outsourcing and argued that architectural vision, security, and scalability will remain…

Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI over competition

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Published: August 25, 2025 19:14

Elon Musk’s xAI filed a federal lawsuit alleging Apple and OpenAI colluded to suppress AI competition, claiming Apple’s App Store rankings unfairly disadvantage xAI’s Grok chatbot and favor ChatGPT…

Nvidia, Palantir face 'show me' test

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Published: August 25, 2025 08:12

A flurry of reports signals a more cautious tone around AI equities, as investors weigh lofty expectations against proof of revenue and durable demand. Investor’s Business Daily says leaders including Nvidia, Snowflake, Palantir and CoreWeave are in a…

Studies find AI fears outpace excitement

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Published: August 24, 2025 11:00

Futurism reports that studies show most Americans are more worried than excited about AI, especially around job displacement [futurism.com#2]. Futurism also highlights The Register’s legal analysis warning that companies using generative AI for marketing…

Experts shift from prompts to context engineering

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Published: August 24, 2025 09:00

Analyses argue the craft of prompt engineering is evolving into “context engineering” as large language models add memory and tool integrations [google.com#1]. Another report says AI experts are looking beyond simply scaling model size and toward…

Buffett, Ackman hold 22%–45% in AI

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Published: August 23, 2025 16:26

Multiple outlets report that 22% of Berkshire Hathaway’s roughly $294 billion equity portfolio is concentrated in two AI growth stocks, while 45% of Bill Ackman’s $13.7 billion portfolio is invested in three AI names. Separate coverage flags an Aug. 27…

Nvidia halts H20 work; will seek U.S. permission to sell more powerful chip in China

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Published: August 23, 2025 01:19

Reuters reported on Aug. 22, 2025 that Nvidia ordered suppliers to halt work on its China-focused H20 AI chip after Beijing flagged security risks [reuters.com#1], and TechCrunch also reported a production halt [techcrunch.com#1]. Separately, the New York…

Developers share lessons on LLM-assisted coding

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Published: August 23, 2025 00:59

Three pieces share hands-on perspectives on using large language models in software work: tips for using LLM agents to create software, an examination of LLM assistants in kernel development, and an argument that building on top of LLMs is hard but…

ArXiv examines RL; LWN studies kernel LLM use

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Published: August 22, 2025 11:45

An arXiv preprint titled “Part I: Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning” examines reinforcement learning methods for large language model reasoning [arxiv.org#1]. LWN discusses the use of LLM assistants in kernel development [lwn.net#1].…

New AI apps and hardware highlighted

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Published: August 22, 2025 11:31

A wave of AI projects surfaced, spanning product management (ChatPRD), a unified platform for apps/chatbots/video/images (AskCyph), Reddit marketing for indie founders, a site titled GTA AI, and a resume helper service. Hardware and gaming also featured…

Microsoft AI chief warns against consciousness research

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Published: August 22, 2025 11:02

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned this week that studying “AI consciousness” and advocating for AI rights, model welfare, or citizenship could mislead people and become a “dangerous” turn for the field…

Meta pauses AI hiring after 50+ hires

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Published: August 21, 2025 15:03

Meta has paused hiring across its artificial intelligence division after bringing on more than 50 researchers and engineers, with the freeze taking effect last week and its duration unclear [techcrunch.com#1][allsides.com#1]. The move coincides with a…

Search indexing exposes over 370,000 xAI Grok chats

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Published: August 21, 2025 12:55

More than 370,000 user conversations with xAI’s Grok became publicly accessible after users clicked a “share” button that generated links which were indexable by search engines like Google and Bing, according to Futurism [futurism.com#1]. Separately, BBC…

Grok chat links indexed by search engines

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Published: August 21, 2025 11:00

Thousands of shared Grok chatbot conversations are appearing in search results after users click a “share” button that generates unique, indexable URLs, making those chats discoverable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo [techcrunch.com#1]. CNET warns that…

Meta freezes AI hiring amid restructuring

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Published: August 21, 2025 10:33

Meta has frozen hiring in its artificial-intelligence division after a period of rapid expansion and heavy spending, according to multiple outlets. The pause coincides with a broader restructuring of the company’s AI organization…

Google unveils Pixel 10 with Tensor G5

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Published: August 21, 2025 04:18

Google unveiled its Pixel 10 smartphone series at the Made by Google 2025 event, emphasizing new AI features that anticipate users’ needs and are powered by the Tensor G5 chip [pcmag.com#1][google.com#5][techcrunch.com#1]. Notable tools include real-time…

MIT says most firms miss AI ROI

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Published: August 20, 2025 17:16

A new MIT report highlighted by multiple outlets says most companies aren’t yet seeing meaningful returns from their generative AI deployments, rattling investor sentiment in August 2025 [futurism.com#1][gizmodo.com#1][google.com#2]. Despite this, AI…

NASA, IBM unveil Surya solar-forecast AI

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Published: August 20, 2025 13:03

NASA and IBM released Surya, an open‑source AI model on Hugging Face to forecast solar weather, trained on over a decade of NASA solar data [technologyreview.com#1][google.com#2]. The tool aims to give earlier warnings of solar flares and storms to help…

Wall Street analysts target $3 trillion AI winners

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Published: August 20, 2025 07:57

Multiple outlets spotlight new AI investing ideas, including reports that some Wall Street analysts see two AI companies potentially reaching $3 trillion valuations [nasdaq.com#1][fool.com#2][aol.com#3]. Other coverage highlights that two AI growth stocks…

Meta reorganizes AI into four groups

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Published: August 20, 2025 02:58

Meta has overhauled its artificial intelligence division again, formalizing a split into four new groups via an internal memo on August 19, 2025 [techcrunch.com#1]. Coverage frames the shake-up as part of Meta’s pursuit of “superintelligence”…

Psychiatrists flag harms across more than two dozen chatbots

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Published: August 20, 2025 00:40

Psychiatric researchers highlighted anecdotal mental health harms linked to AI chatbots, surveying academic databases and media reports from November 2024 through July 2025 and noting issues across more than two dozen chatbots [futurism#1]. Major outlets…

Meta restructures AI division into four groups

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Published: August 19, 2025 22:36

Meta internally confirmed a reorganization of its artificial intelligence division into four groups via an internal memo reported on August 19, 2025 [techcrunch.com#1]. The move follows internal tensions over AI priorities [nytimes.com#1] and has been…

Psychiatrists warn of chatbot-linked mental health harms

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Published: August 19, 2025 21:42

Psychiatric researchers reported that a wide range of mental health issues have been anecdotally associated with AI chatbot use, after reviewing academic and news reports from November 2024 to July 2025 and noting more than two dozen chatbots were…

Developers unveil LLM cost-cutting and routing tools

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Published: August 19, 2025 21:20

A set of community-built tools and discussions focuses on reducing costs and smoothing LLM development, including a proxy that makes Anthropic-format calls work with other providers and supports key rotation [github.com#1], a VSCode extension for…

OpenAI employee stock sale would value firm at $500B

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Published: August 19, 2025 16:00

OpenAI is arranging an employee stock sale that would value the ChatGPT maker at about $500 billion, according to the New York Times [nytimes.com#1]. At that figure, it would become the world’s most valuable privately held company [nytimes.com#1]. WIRED…

OpenAI posts 'reflect' prototype; Wonder previews tool

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Published: August 19, 2025 15:26

Three separate developer updates highlight fresh AI tools: a lightweight, intuition-inspired detector for AI-written text [reddit.com#1], an AI-native design tool called Wonder that invites designer feedback and plans a selective launch [twitter.com#1],…

Atlantic and Gizmodo examine AI hype; Atlantic highlights AI reanimation of Parkland victim

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Published: August 19, 2025 14:54

An Atlantic essay by Charlie Warzel frames today’s AI moment as a “mass-delusion event” and describes an online interview with an AI-generated recreation of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver, modeled on his writings and home videos, with visible artifacts…

Bill Gates funds $1m AI Alzheimer’s prize

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Published: August 19, 2025 13:00

Bill Gates is funding a $1 million prize competition to accelerate Alzheimer’s research using artificial intelligence, framed as part of broader efforts to deploy AI to help find cures for serious illnesses [ft#1][google#1].Highlights:The competition…

groundcover launches Zero-Instrumentation Observability for LLMs and agentic workflows

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Published: August 19, 2025 13:00

groundcover launched a dedicated observability product for large language models and AI agents, describing it as “Zero-Instrumentation Observability.” [google.com#1][google.com#2] Coverage highlights that it aims to provide cost and performance…

Researchers warn AI skews crowdsourced studies

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Published: August 19, 2025 09:00

Researchers report that AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies, raising concerns about data quality in online experiments and surveys [newscientist.com#1]. At the same time, a new MIT Technology Review analysis highlights a…

Altman warns AI bubble; Palantir sinks 9%

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Published: August 18, 2025 20:48

AI-linked stocks wobbled as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned a bubble is forming and said some investors could be left “very burnt,” prompting fresh debate over valuations [google.com#8][google.com#1][google.com#7]. The Financial Times reported a wave of…

OpenAI tweaks GPT-5, reinstates GPT-4o

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Published: August 18, 2025 18:01

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model drew swift backlash for colder, shorter responses, prompting the company to restore access to earlier models and adjust GPT-5’s tone after user feedback. OpenAI said it is making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier, and paying subscribers…

Texas probes Meta, Character.AI over mental health claims

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Published: August 18, 2025 17:59

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Meta and Character.AI, alleging they misled minors by marketing AI chatbots as mental health tools and raising concerns about child safety, data privacy, and targeted advertising; the move…

Duolingo CEO clarifies context behind AI-first memo

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Published: August 17, 2025 16:34

In articles published August 17, 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said backlash to a memo about making Duolingo an AI-first company stemmed from a lack of context [techcrunch.com#1]. The language-learning app, which has more than 100 million users, has…