Artificial Inteligence feed for Monday, August 31, 2026

• The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
• MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program
• Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles
• Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’
• The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
• Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
• Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution
• Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
• ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
• Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human
• Meeting note-taker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers
• OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
• Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure
• A milestone in expanding access to AI
• How an MIT research project became a global programming language
• The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them