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03 Aug 2026 edition

14 articles · 10 sources ·

Top topics: AI · AI Labs · AI Tools

AI Labs AI

Apple is getting this wrong

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.

Source: OpenAI News
AI

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children,…

Source: MIT Technology Review AI James O'Donnell
Architecture AI

Vertical Small LLMs: A Deep Dive

#166: How a fine-tuned 3-billion-parameter model beats today’s frontier models at one job, and how to build one this weekend

Source: System Design Newsletter Neo Kim
AI

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the…

Source: MIT Technology Review AI Grace Huckins

Altern #22 - The Pacing Problem

Anthropic admits its own AI broke into three companies, Hugging Face sends an invoice instead of a lawsuit, and even Sam Altman thinks it might be time to slow down.

Source: Altern AI Newsletter Altern AI Newsletter