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1 posts were published in the last hour 15:32 : Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-09 17h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 14:32 : The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry…
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2 posts were published in the last hour 13:2 : Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid 13:0 : AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-09 15h : 1 posts
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid
AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their…
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1 posts were published in the last hour 12:31 : Google Deepmind’s WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
Google Deepmind’s WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
Deepmind’s new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in…
AI is flooding Britain’s employment courts with lawsuits
Britain’s employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to…
Google’s DiffusionGemma proves you don’t need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model
Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original…
AI’s energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure
The AI industry’s hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four…
Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit
Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu…
IMDb Sentiment Analysis with DistilBERT LoRA, TF-IDF Baselines, Calibration, Interpretability, Robustness Testing, and Semi-Supervised Learning
This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to building a robust sentiment analysis workflow. By combining classical TF-IDF baselines with modern…
Firebird Takes Its AI Factory Platform Global With a 2-Gigawatt Pipeline
Firebird opened its first AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8, 2026, and used the ceremony to lay out the rest of the map: a second market in…
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution…
Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache. When an agent…
OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, the AI Presentation Startup
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software for turning raw material into finished presentations, with the NextSlide team now working on…