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Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service Aug 24, 2026

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Authorities gave them permission to deploy thousands of robotaxis in Clark County.

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Humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record, OpenAI said California should strengthen its AI safety laws, and LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working Aug 24, 2026

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-During the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games that kicked off in Beijing on Saturday, the Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds.

-OpenAI giant also called for "strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle, specifically to prevent frontier models from circumventing internal security controls."

-While AI slop has plagued just about every social media platform, LinkedIn has become notorious for being particularly filled with AI-generated posts

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Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for Mac Aug 21, 2026

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It's part of the company's latest push to make more business-friendly AI tools.

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Senators pressed TikTok on its 'sinister' experiment, GitHub said commits have doubled in the last four months, and Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global Aug 21, 2026

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-Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal sent a sharply worded letter to the company's top executives questioning them about how the app has tested, and in some cases, withheld, key safety features.

-GitHub said that since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion.

-Bilibili's changes are part of an explicit strategy to get Western viewers posting and watching videos on the platform.

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction Aug 20, 2026

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Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

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A robot may soon conduct your blood draw, traffic deaths increase after major music streaming releases, and NASA called off its mission to rescue the Swift observatory Aug 20, 2026

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-The Aletta robot uses near-infrared light and Doppler ultrasound to identify a vein and then automates the other processes of a blood draw, such as applying a tourniquet, inserting and disposing of a needle and placing a bandage on the patient.

-The study looked at 233,809 fatal collisions between 2017 and 2022, comparing the incidence rate of car accidents on album release days against the 10 days immediately before and after each release.

-NASA has announced that Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft will no longer dock with the satellite and boost it to a higher altitude as planned.

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Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts Aug 19, 2026

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The company wants users to be able to watch and listen to conversations.

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AI-generated bills are reportedly causing problems in the Capitol, ICE Agents have been restricted from using Meta glasses while working, and X’s algorithm apparently prioritizes ragebait disproportionately impacting Democrats Aug 19, 2026

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-Politico's sources said lawyers at the US House Office of Legislative Counsel are spending more time reviewing and rewriting them than they would have if they had written the bills from scratch.

-In one case, reported by 404 Media, a CBP agent was spotted recording with his glasses despite the policy. In another instance, a member of Border Patrol wore a pair to an immigration raid.

-On X, replying is weighted much more heavily than liking, despite replies accounting for under seven percent of interactions on the platform.

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Another woman joins the lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM Aug 18, 2026

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A Wyoming woman said that her stepfather created thousands of fake sexually explicit images of her through the AI chatbot.

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in its latest trial, ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models, and Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts Aug 18, 2026

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-Claims from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by intentionally misleading the public about the safety of its apps.

-This memorandum applies to all AI models from ByteDance, including those used on TikTok, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut and Dreamina.

-Reddit describes the test as a "limited experiment" affecting "a sample of posts across select communities" on the platform.

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