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Instagram will throttle reach of AI-generated profiles that skip disclosure
Meta renames its 'AI creator' tag to 'AI-generated profile' and will reduce distribution for accounts that don't use it.
Clipto hits $250M valuation as AI video search finds a market
The three-year-old startup raised $15M at a $250M post-money valuation and reached $15M in ARR by early 2026.
Debian votes to allow AI-assisted code in its Linux distribution
The project's new policy neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI, rejecting proposals for an outright ban.
Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek to co-opt the custom AI chip wave
MediaTek gets NVLink Fusion access to design custom silicon for hyperscalers — inside Nvidia's rack-scale stack, not outside it.
Instagram will throttle AI accounts that pose as human
A new 'AI-generated profile' label replaces 'AI creator,' and unlabeled synthetic accounts lose reach in Reels and Explore.
EU designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under DSA
OpenAI, Reddit and Roblox have until end of December 2026 to comply with the bloc's toughest platform rulebook.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul pushes tighter AI and data center rules
Hochul signed a one-year data center moratorium in July and wants AI regulation aimed at kids under 18 — while claiming the tech-jobs crown from California.
Circleback opens a free tier to fend off Granola, Wispr and Calendly
The YC-backed notetaker is trading its $20.83 paywall for unlimited free transcription as the meeting-AI market crowds up.
Insurance claims adjusters are the workforce's biggest AI haters, Glassdoor finds
98% of adjuster reviews mentioning AI are negative as employment in the sector drops 21% year-over-year and entry-level postings fall by half.
Meta's Pocket turns text prompts into playable games — inside its walled garden
The vibe-coding app builds functional mobile games in about a minute per prompt, but creations can't leave Meta's platform.
Financial Stability Board flags AI-driven cyber risk as top threat to global finance
The FSB names AI-enabled cyberattacks as the leading near-term risk to global financial stability, ahead of traditional macro shocks.
US drone and robot curbs collide with China's 86% humanoid share
Washington tightened restrictions on Chinese drones and advanced robots this summer, but five Chinese firms shipped 86% of humanoids in H1 2026.
Caterpillar ports mining autonomy playbook to broader AI rollout
The industrial giant is spending $100M over five years to retrain 118,000 workers as it pushes AI from mines to construction sites.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over Claude training data
Publishers accuse the AI lab of pirating millions of books containing lyrics and sheet music, building on the $1.5B Bartz precedent.
OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away
An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.
EDM producers turn detective to expose AI-generated tracks flooding Suno
Max Harris and Nihil Young are calling out peers they suspect of passing off Suno output as human-made music.
Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models
Free tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and Llama.cpp put private, offline chatbots on any modern PC — with tradeoffs on speed and RAM.
Lambda raises $1B in debt to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft lease
The neocloud's third GPU-backed loan this year points to a debt-fueled AI infrastructure race now topping $400B globally.
JAMA paper argues autonomous AI will beat doctors on core tasks by 2030
Ezekiel Emanuel and Vinod Khosla say humans in the loop degrade AI performance across five fundamental medical tasks.
Meta patches AI glasses loophole that let users hide recording light
The fix closes a bypass that let wearers cover the LED mid-recording, as EU regulators probe and a US class action advances.
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan defects to OpenAI
Devanathan follows Prabhjeet Singh out of Uber and into OpenAI's Asia-Pacific build, as the ChatGPT maker stacks its Singapore and Delhi benches.
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.
Meta tests robots that swap cables and reset servers in its data centers
Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.
Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.
Clara Shih left Meta after AI agents beat her best employees
The former Salesforce AI CEO says agents collapsed 10-day, 10-step processes into minutes — and predicts one in five corporate roles is at risk.
OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop
Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.
Alpharetta officer ran 103 Flock searches to track ex and rival cop
Patrolman Dustin Bozzo used the ALPR network 56 times on his former partner and 29 on another officer before resigning under investigation.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Trump chip tariffs could delay 20% of US data centers, industry warns
The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates $90B in annual GDP losses if the tariffs hit chips and downstream products.
Gemini Notebook lets users query 100,000 books they've bought on Google Play
Google's new Expert Intelligence feature turns purchased books into queryable sources, with 15 authors building custom Featured Notebooks.
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