News Summary (2026-32)

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[AINews] AMD buys Taalas #

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM??? #

[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back #

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork #

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities #

How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory #

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users #

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI #

From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work #

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models #

New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex #

Apple is getting this wrong #

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months #

Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology #

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science #

The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI #

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy #

The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model #

Puzzle Corner #

The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs #

NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids #

The Download: US robot restrictions and ICE’s DNA grab #

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics #

The Download: reward hacking explained and suspected Iranian cyberattacks #

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals #

Ben's session #

I'm using a new agent app #

What my agent knows about me #

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity #

TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back? #

Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 #

Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B #

Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore #

Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough #

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful #

The only instant cameras worth your money #

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did #

Grab the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-ray for $50 #

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up #

Sony could release a cheaper version of its WH-1000XM4 headphones, according to leaks #

Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is on sale for just $60 #

The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About #

The 7 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month #

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been #

Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses #

Our Favorite Fans Are on Sale to Help With Summer Heat Waves (2026) #

Best Webcams (2026): My Honest Take After Testing the Best #

The 5 Best Laptop Power Banks I've Personally Tested (2026) #

3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): Lenovo, MSI, Alienware #

Ranking the Best Smart Glasses: Meta, Viture, & More (2026) #

The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry #

The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions #

Ratio vs. Simply Good: Which Plastic-Free Coffee Maker Is Best? #

Ray-Ban Promo Codes: Save 50% in August 2026 #

B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This August 2026 #

One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment #

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids #

Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents #

Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse #

ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows #

DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else #

There’s No Good Way to Talk About Celebrities and Eating Disorders #

5 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed #

Meteor Showers, Eclipses, and More Are on the August 2026 Astronomical Calendar #

Best Android Charger: Wireless, Portable, Cable (2026) #

Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results #

Samsung Odyssey G8 6K Review: Pixel Overdose #

Shark PowerDetect Speed Review (2026): Light and Powerful #

Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers #

12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds #

Best Handheld Fans for a Breeze on Demand (2026) #

20% Off Brooks Promo Code | August 2026 #

Total Wireless Promo Codes & Deals: 50% Off Select Plans #

Groupon Promo Codes: 60% Off in August 2026 #

Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli #

How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch #

Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI #

Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise #

PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides #

Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs #

Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM back project turning AI policy into code #

EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force #

Why biological data matters more in AI drug discovery #

OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time #

AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon #

Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicology #

OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300 #

China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance #

Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab #

OpenAI reportedly slows research after its own models secretly coordinated hacks for weeks undetected #

Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins #

OpenAI improves GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT and restricts free users to its weakest model #

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 #

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course #