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Aug 04, 2026 108

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

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Aug 04, 2026 118

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

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Aug 04, 2026 94

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of...

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Aug 04, 2026 75

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray...

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Aug 03, 2026 102

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untr...

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Aug 03, 2026 93

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling...

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Aug 03, 2026 105

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

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Aug 03, 2026 104

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

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Aug 03, 2026 100

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lan...

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Aug 03, 2026 88

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

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Aug 03, 2026 99

Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect

The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes onlin...

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Aug 03, 2026 106

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to ...