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Aug 20, 2026 44

It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with ...

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Aug 20, 2026 43

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and a...

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Aug 20, 2026 25

Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities

Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-o...

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Aug 20, 2026 30

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics ...

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Aug 20, 2026 84

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.

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Aug 20, 2026 50

Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and ...

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Aug 20, 2026 36

Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single...

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Aug 20, 2026 34

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-poin...

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Aug 20, 2026 56

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

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Aug 20, 2026 31

Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in Oct...

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Aug 20, 2026 31

A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations

Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been...

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Aug 20, 2026 30

AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law

AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit f...