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Aug 24, 2026 56

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on u...

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Aug 24, 2026 69

XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The C...

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Aug 24, 2026 60

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in ta...

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Aug 24, 2026 61

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

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Aug 24, 2026 56

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To rec...

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Aug 24, 2026 64

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling ...

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Aug 24, 2026 65

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience.

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Aug 24, 2026 124

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thi...

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Aug 23, 2026 251

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

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Aug 23, 2026 304

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

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Aug 23, 2026 325

Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

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Aug 23, 2026 187

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to und...