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The $44 Pitch Behind NYC’s Glitchy AI Tattoo Posters Now Has a Working Site
Dodo’s ChatGPT Pizza Was a Hit. Its Name Is Gone From the Dubai Menu
Dodo Pizza’s ChatGPT-assisted creation was described as a hit in 2024. The original product name is now absent from the chain’s current Dubai menu.
After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit”
ChatGPT maker OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit, only to change its mind four years later, announcing that it had become a "capped-profit" company.
NaNoWriMo’s AI Stance Triggered Resignations—Then the Nonprofit Closed
NaNoWriMo’s disputed 2024 AI position prompted resignations and sponsor loss. The nonprofit later closed amid broader financial and governance problems, while independent groups kept the challenge alive.
AI Accuses Journalist of Escaping Psych Ward, Abusing Children and Widows
"This seriously violates my human dignity," Bernklau told SWR, translated from German by Google Translate.
Publishers Can Reject Apple’s AI Training Without Leaving Search
Apple still lets publishers exclude their content from foundation-model training without abandoning search visibility. Separate controls now cover crawling, training and AI-generated answers.
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Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees
That potential, the trial found, is not looking promising.

Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer
Behold Colossus: Elon Musk's new supercomputer, allegedly powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips, which would be more than any single AI system on the planet.

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud, the Charlotte-area man faces a maximum of 20 years per charge.

Nvidia Should Be Printing Money Right Now by Selling AI Hardware. Instead, Its Stock Is Falling
Earlier this year, AI chipmaker Nvidia was riding high, enjoying a record-breaking valuation of $3.3 trillion.

A Suno Track Started Sobbing—Creators Can Now Cut the Unwanted Outro
A Suno generation unexpectedly continued into sob-like audio in 2024. The cause remains unverified, but current editing controls give creators a way to remove or replace the unwanted ending.

Chatbot Recommendation Gaming Works in Tests, but Agency Claims Outrun Proof
Chatbot recommendations can be influenced through retrieved web content, controlled research shows. Yet the durable, cross-platform results sold by optimization firms remain largely unverified.

Americans Absolutely Detest AI That Makes Decisions for Them
So-called "automated decision-making" is being heralded as the next big thing — but it turns out that many consumers are disgusted by the idea of AI making choices for them.

Hadrian Raises $1.37B as Defense Manufacturing Becomes a Scale Race
Hadrian raised $1.37 billion at a valuation just below $8 billion. An Army award documents real demand, but the company’s broader factory expansion remains an execution test.

QUASA Continues Aggressive Deflation: 9.2 Million QUA Burned Since the Start of 2026
QUASA has completed another token buyback in July–August 2026, permanently removing 247,554 QUA from circulation. Since the beginning of the year the project has already burned 9.2 million tokens — 4 million more than in the whole of 2025. Circulating supply now stands at approximately 65.65 million QUA. The team continues its long-term deflationary strategy while expanding the platform into Hindi, French and Spanish.

Character.AI Chats Feel Private—Its Policy Still Treats Them as Platform Data
Character.AI chats are collected platform content, not user-only confidential records. The service may use, retain and disclose data even when a conversation is not public.
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