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    The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok; FTC accused Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme,' plus, Kalshi banned George Santos for life

    01/09/2026 | 8 mins.
    Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

    Also, Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.

    And Kalshi's disciplinary action comes two months after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled charges against Santos.
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    Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem; plus, Caterpillar is bringing what it learned from automating mining to AI implementation

    31/08/2026 | 10 mins.
    Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

    Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
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    OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

    28/08/2026 | 9 mins.
    -Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

    -Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

    -Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.
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    Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet

    27/08/2026 | 7 mins.
    Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

    Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

    And the FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.
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    OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

    26/08/2026 | 6 mins.
    First announced last October, Jalapeño was developed by OpenAI in close collaboration with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own models assisting in the development process.

    Also, The M5 Ultra, which Apple deems its “most powerful chip ever,” fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips to form Apple’s first quad-die chip, designed to manage hefty AI workloads.
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