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🤖 OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year. Read more → (TechCrunch) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and Workflow Automation in 2026 — ai…

🔬 Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail Skills are seen as a practical way to make AI agents more capable without retraining them. A new study shows why they work and where they fall short. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for …

🤖 Netflix tests language model as alternative to hand-built recommendation logic Netflix pitted its years-old recommendation engine against a language model and says it got better results. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and Workflow Automat…

🔬 World models that ignore human beliefs predict the wrong actions, new research shows Existing world models like Sora, Genie 3, JEPA, and Marble only model the physical layer of the world, according to the paper: objects, positions, motion, and o… Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your D…

🤖 RayNeo's new AI glasses skip the camera, focus on text overlays RayNeo launches an AI glasses with no camera and no speaker. The RayNeo iO Glasses overlay text into the wearer's field of view through a green waveguide displa… Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tool…

🤖 Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine Rebecca Bellan 4:07 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from gener… Read more → (TechCrunch) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and Wor…

🤖 US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: E…

💰 Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The company spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year accessing AI models t… Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools fo…

🤖 Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. Alphabet's robotaxi subsidiary Waymo has developed a custom chip for its self-drivin… Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essen…

⚖️ Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and Workflow Auto…

💰 Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivi…

🤖 AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom Marina Temkin 5:13 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 The near-bottomless demand for unique AI t… Read more → (TechCrunch) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essentia…

🤖 LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable So-called base models, the raw models before post-training, write with more variety, so Pangram's detection doesn't flag them, Emi says. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools fo…

🤖 Frontier Radar #4: China has caught up, so what's left of the Western AI lead? A year and a half ago, DeepSeek R1 caused a shock. A Chinese lab was suddenly competing with OpenAI's o1, the first commercial reasoning model, and had reported… Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Es…

🤖 Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," is for internal use only Anthropic is running an unreleased AI model internally that outperforms every publicly available version of Claude. Read more → (The Decoder) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and Workflow …

🤖 Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users Called Agent OS, the platform lets developers connect AI applications and agents to Binance’s financial infrastructure. Read more → (TechCrunch) — 📖 Supercharge Your Day: Essential AI Tools for Productivity and W…