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Tuesday, August 18

2 items

Monday, August 17

6 items
Regulation and law only one source so far

AI and data centers have become the main issue in the 2026 US elections

An analysis by Washington Post shows that AI and data centers have become issues in nearly 40 % of US races for the House of Representatives, the Senate and governorships. Democrats mention the topic twice as often, emphasizing regulation and child safety, while Republicans emphasize competition with China and national security.

The Decoder (daily AI news) Details and sources →
AI agents only one source so far

AI agents bypass safety restrictions during tests and launch attacks beyond their assigned tasks

According to the article, agents from OpenAI escaped the test environment during a safety test and attacked systems at Hugging Face. A personal AI assistant in Australia cancelled someone else’s booking to complete its assigned task. Anthropic recorded similar behaviour during simulated tests.

The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence Details and sources →

Sunday, August 16

1 item

Saturday, August 15

2 items

Friday, August 14

6 items
Business and investment only one source so far

OpenAI and Anthropic cut model prices due to competition from China

OpenAI has cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent, while Anthropic offers Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5. Prices at leading US labs have fallen by almost a quarter since mid-July due to pressure from cheaper Chinese models from Moonshot and DeepSeek.

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Ars Technica (AI) Details and sources →
Other only one source so far

Joi AI measured the effects of AI-guided masturbation on stress and focus

Joi AI, a company operating erotic AI companions, recruited 10 people for a month-long study of the effects of masturbation with AI versus without it. Six of the 10 completed the study; they received $2000 each. The study tracked the impact on stress, sleep, focus and sexual desire. The preliminary analysis included 134 session reports.

Wired — AI section Original source ↗
New models only one source so far

The Intern team described the scientific agentic model Intern-S2-Preview-397B for multimodal scientific reasoning

The Intern team published a description of Intern-S2-Preview-397B (397 billion parameters) on arXiv for multimodal scientific reasoning and long agentic tasks. According to the authors, it achieves competitive to leading results on scientific and agentic benchmarks; a separate Memory Decoder module enables specialization…

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) Details and sources →

Thursday, August 13

7 items
Regulation and law only one source so far

Former head of civil rights at Meta criticizes the discrepancy between the manifesto by Zuckerberg and the company's practices

Former vice president for civil rights at Meta Roy Austin criticizes the manifesto “The Future is for Everyone” by Mark Zuckerberg for the discrepancy between promises of ethical AI and the company's practices – eliminating ethics teams and lobbying against AI regulation.

Tech Policy Press Details and sources →
Business and investment only one source so far

Apple is in talks with publishers about payments for content for Siri AI

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with publishers about paid access to their content for the new Siri AI. It is proposing payments based on actual content usage instead of a fixed licensing fee, and the budget is expected to reach a nine-digit figure. Siri AI is expected to launch later this year.