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China’s leaders invited dozens of scientists and technology experts to the annual gathering as Beijing aims to achieve “self-reliance and strength in science and technology” by 2030.
Aug 11, 2026
Wired
Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.
Aug 11, 2026
The Register
The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey
Aug 11, 2026
The Guardian Technology
A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment It is fashionable in certain circles to dism…
Aug 11, 2026
Politico Technology
Democratic New York assemblymember Alex Bores narrowly lost his House primary in June after facing an onslaught of Silicon Valley dollars. But his influence over state AI rules is only rising.
Aug 11, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fos…
Aug 11, 2026
The Register
Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
Aug 11, 2026
The Register
EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
Aug 11, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
Aug 10, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial i…
Aug 10, 2026
Semafor Technology
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay Monday announcing plans for a $1 billion fund to invest in communities that host data centers.
Aug 10, 2026
Ars Technica
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.
Aug 10, 2026
Semafor Technology
The chip giant joined six major Wall Street firms to lend more than $500 billion.
Aug 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
Aug 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
Aug 10, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their …
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
Aug 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Aug 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
Aug 10, 2026
Ars Technica
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Aug 10, 2026
Rest of World
Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots.
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25
Aug 10, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017,…
Aug 10, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s…
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2
Aug 10, 2026
The Register
PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.
Aug 10, 2026
Semafor Technology
The leading open-weight AI models are closing the gap on the frontier in cyber capabilities, according to the UK’s AI Safety Institute.
Aug 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
Aug 9, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Finance sector will gain from the tech but it will need substantial investment and create risks, says rating agency The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is putting big banks at the …
Aug 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
Aug 8, 2026
Simon Willison
Aug 8, 2026
The Register
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
Aug 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
Aug 8, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deep…
Aug 8, 2026
Simon Willison
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
Aug 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-pro…
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
Aug 7, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows i…
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Aug 7, 2026
The Verge
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b…
Aug 7, 2026
Simon Willison
Aug 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents mo…
Aug 7, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online f…
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Aug 7, 2026
The Guardian Technology
A Trump administration framework on AI testing leaves a lack of transparency – and plenty of open questions After months of talking with tech industry leaders, the Trump administration finalized a fra…
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
Aug 7, 2026