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August 27, 2026, 8:00 PM
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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.
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
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google”
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Meta is seeking to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms  —  The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Madison Mills / Axios:
Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1  —  After burning through its IT budget in the first quarter of the year, Uber has now stabilized its AI bills even as usage surges, the company tells Axios.
The Information:
Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+  —  Revenue is surging at Cognition and several other AI application providers, previously unreported data show …
Reuters:
Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation  —  Anthropic discussed buying artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, seeking to accelerate efforts …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank  —  The Emirati ‘spy sheikh’ backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank  —  The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred …
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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%

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

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Earlier Picks

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
Thom Waite / Dazed:
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including a team that has more than doubled since RDR2 and an LA office dedicated almost solely to nonplayer characters
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks
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
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
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