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AI News
Aug 17, 2026 22

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 21

Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies

The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - w...

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 22

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI tran...

Research
Aug 17, 2026 24

Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

General Science

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 19

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed l...

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 24

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was t...

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 25

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 24

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 21

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 26

ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you wor...

AI News
Aug 16, 2026 49

Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Har...

AI News
Aug 15, 2026 29

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."