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  • OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
    The Verge [ai] - 20:45 Sep 01, 2026
    After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]
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  • The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
    The Verge [ai] - 19:02 Sep 01, 2026
    Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to […]
  • Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence
    The Verge [ai] - 18:19 Sep 01, 2026
    Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying […]
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  • John Deere launched an AI chatbot for farmers
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Sep 01, 2026
    John Deere is testing a new "JD" AI assistant that it says can help farmers make more money, with answers about best practices and historical trends that are based on their own data. It uses their "field, machine and operational data" to answer questions on topics like equipment settings, fuel usage, or harvest timing. The […]
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  • Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Sep 01, 2026
    Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating "professional-grade" AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to give more granular control over prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing […]
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  • Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Sep 01, 2026
    Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a "real-time generative AI filter for video games" and "motion smoothing for video games, but worse." DLSS 5 will officially be available on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now […]
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  • Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution
    The Verge [ai] - 15:34 Aug 31, 2026
    Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes on to say, "generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already […]
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  • New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Aug 31, 2026
    Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every major tech issue there is. For example, Meta just reached […]
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  • ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
    The Verge [ai] - 13:27 Aug 31, 2026
    OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and […]
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  • Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Aug 31, 2026
    Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's not a real human being. "We've heard that people don't like seeing a profile […]
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  • Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
    The Verge [ai] - 15:35 Aug 30, 2026
    As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, […]
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  • Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
    The Verge [ai] - 18:19 Aug 29, 2026
    Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the […]
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  • Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Aug 29, 2026
    As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology […]
  • Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
    The Verge [ai] - 16:28 Aug 28, 2026
    Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites […]
  • Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
    The Verge [ai] - 03:14 Aug 28, 2026
    On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting "red […]
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  • Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
    The Verge [ai] - 19:30 Aug 27, 2026
    Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]
  • Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
    The Verge [ai] - 16:15 Aug 27, 2026
    On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]
  • OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Aug 27, 2026
    Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed […]
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  • Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
    The Verge [ai] - 13:44 Aug 27, 2026
    Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the […]
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  • Plaud is launching AI earbuds
    The Verge [ai] - 13:11 Aug 27, 2026
    Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process […]
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