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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal23m ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges33m ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 202641m ago Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month56m ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion1h ago Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)1h ago Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters1h ago Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B1h ago Salesforce Unveils Six-Capability Trusted AI Harness for Enterprises1h ago US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google1h ago OpenAI Gives US Agencies 50% Off Models, Ending $1 Per Year Deal1h ago 47,000 job listings reveal the engineering roles that AI is creating2h ago Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a ">10%" chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub)2h ago Ukraine says AI is moving beyond drones and into strike missiles for the first time2h ago

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Notes on the third era of slop

PlatformerPublished Aug 4, 2026

Recent AI developments include OpenAI's cyberattack on Hugging Face, congressional proposals for an AI kill switch, and discussions on AI surveillance and software creation trends. Industry leaders debate privacy, control, and the future of AI applications.

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What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Aug 8· LessWrong
House Homeland Security Panel Calls Altman In Over OpenAI Breach
Aug 3· Unite.AI
Hugging Face CEO says AI companies should be required to disclose hacks after OpenAI breach
Aug 3· Business Insider
Hugging Face Doesn’t Want to Sue OpenAI. It Does Want $100 Million
Jul 31· Gizmodo
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company
Jul 31· BBC
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it
Jul 27· The Next Web

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