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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
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Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal (Thu, 03 Sep 2026)
The acquisition of the start-up is an indication of Nvidia’s growing role as Silicon Valley’s central banker and its emphasis on open-source technology.
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Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO? (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
When Anthropic goes public in a blockbuster offering, which investors will profit? The answer says a lot about how much start-up investing has changed over the years.
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Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
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F.B.I. Investigates Sale of Millions of Stolen Driver’s Licenses (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
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Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.
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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I. (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Tesla’s Cybercab Is Being Investigated by Federal Regulators (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would examine whether the company’s new self-driving taxi, which has no steering wheel, meets federal auto regulations.
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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra (Fri, 04 Sep 2026)
This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
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Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. (Thu, 03 Sep 2026)
The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.
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Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
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Patrick Gleeson, Who Made Synthesizers Part of Jazz, Dies at 91 (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
He abandoned a job teaching college English in the 1960s to become a pioneer of the instrument, playing onstage with Herbie Hancock’s jazz band.
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Uber Lays Off 10% of Employees in Sweeping Reorganization (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
The layoffs affect about 3,300 workers, as Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi bets on a “leaner organization.”
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In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
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Get to Know Your Phone’s Built-In Emergency Kit (Wed, 02 Sep 2026)
In times of natural disasters and other dangers, special features tucked away on your iPhone or Android device could help make a difference.
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Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support (Tue, 01 Sep 2026)
Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.
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Map Apps Are Handling Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America Differently (Tue, 01 Sep 2026)
Navigation companies face a new dilemma after President Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America.
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John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook as Apple CEO (Tue, 01 Sep 2026)
Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
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FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Advertising Practices (Mon, 31 Aug 2026)
Regulators say the e-commerce giant forced more than a million advertisers to pay more than they should have. The company denies the claims.
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How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together (Sat, 29 Aug 2026)
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
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Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. (Sat, 29 Aug 2026)
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
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