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August 27, 2026, 1:55 PM
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids  —  By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules  —  Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps.  That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.
The Information:
Source: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce  —  Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion …
METR:
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face  —  Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach  —  In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet …
Politico:
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies  —  The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO …
Nvidia Newsroom:
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B  —  - Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago  — Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
Bloomberg:
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio  —  Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
Google:
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more  —  Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group  —  Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed …
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers  —  Anthropic is giving Claude its own browser.  —  As the company announced on Wednesday, Claude on the desktop (Mac, Windows, and Linux) …
Google DeepMind:
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP  —  Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments  —  Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units  —  Plaud Inc., a startup that makes note-taking devices, announced a pair of wireless, 4G-connected earbuds that lets users record conversations …
Wall Street Journal:
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January  —  After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills  —  Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks  —  Earlier this year, we ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data.
Thom Waite / Dazed:
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including interactive systems that let in-game player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media  —  The pressure on Grand Theft Auto VI to deliver the holy grail of gaming is enormous - we talk to Rockstar's epic team of creative talents to uncover its secrets
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A  —  Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company …
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy  —  Tech company Nvidia will start an employee-funded political action committee, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters, as the company seeks to step up its efforts to influence U.S. policy.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: the US DOJ says states suing to block the WBD deal must post a “proper bond” to cover potential damages, backing Paramount's request for a $1.88B bond

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

More News

New York Times:
Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' “vested interest” was misleading states to attack prediction markets
Bloomberg:
Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US

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Priyanka Salve / CNBC:
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Senator Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras
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