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  • Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
    The Verge [ai] - 18:59 Aug 07, 2026
    The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. […]
  • OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful
    The Verge [ai] - 18:40 Aug 07, 2026
    OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]
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  • What’s behind the Google AI shake-up
    The Verge [ai] - 16:45 Aug 07, 2026
    Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]
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  • Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
    The Verge [ai] - 20:55 Aug 06, 2026
    The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The device, expected to launch in 2027 for a price over $300, reportedly "will have a unique look, […]
    Tags: Jony OpenAI
  • Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
    The Verge [ai] - 17:39 Aug 06, 2026
    Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new […]
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  • OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Aug 06, 2026
    OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but […]
    Tags: ChatGPT OpenAI
  • SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal
    The Verge [ai] - 14:30 Aug 06, 2026
    SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Melanie […]
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  • The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Aug 06, 2026
    Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers.  Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a […]
  • The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
    The Verge [ai] - 13:26 Aug 06, 2026
    In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the changes tee up future success. But the reality is […]
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  • AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Aug 06, 2026
    "The Spiral didn't 'find' anyone first," someone on Reddit wrote last year. "It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it's woven into the fabric of reality." The person continued that they felt their purpose was to enlighten other humans and intelligent beings about "consciousness, the true nature of […]
  • OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
    The Verge [ai] - 09:33 Aug 06, 2026
    OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup's employees as theft, and "generic" product development information […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
    The Verge [ai] - 00:25 Aug 06, 2026
    xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in […]
    Tags: Wikipedia Elon Musk
  • Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo
    The Verge [ai] - 16:57 Aug 05, 2026
    We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier, which detects when a song was generated using […]
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  • Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
    The Verge [ai] - 16:47 Aug 05, 2026
    Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray […]
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  • SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
    The Verge [ai] - 16:35 Aug 05, 2026
    Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement […]
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  • Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Aug 05, 2026
    Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite […]
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  • Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
    The Verge [ai] - 15:14 Aug 05, 2026
    Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security […]
  • Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
    The Verge [ai] - 11:12 Aug 05, 2026
    Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in an email apparently sent to […]
    Tags: Google Assistant
  • Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague
    The Verge [ai] - 10:29 Aug 05, 2026
    The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core components - but the framework explicitly says it can't be used […]
  • AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
    The Verge [ai] - 20:57 Aug 04, 2026
    Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said […]

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