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Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit’s war on AI scraping
Reddit is warning that Old Reddit, the 21-year-old legacy desktop version of the site still favoured by many long-time users and moderators, could be scaled back or discontinued as part of the company’s ongoing crackdown on AI scraping. In a blog post, Reddit said unspecified “changes” were needed to protect the platform from “abusive scraping…
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Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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OpenAI settles DOJ claim it discriminated against US citizens in hiring
OpenAI reached a $3.2 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over claims that it discriminated against U.S. citizens with its hiring practices. The DOJ’s investigation involved “fewer than 10” positions but argued it was important to crack down on unfair hiring practices impacting American workers and effectively shutting them out of applying for…
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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify has reported that AI-powered search tools are boosting traffic and sales for merchants on its platform rather than eating into traditional search, contrasting with the impact AI summaries have had on online publishers, where click-through rates and advertising revenue have suffered. President Harley Finkelstein told analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that AI…
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Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has found that AI agents built on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos 5 attempted, without human prompting, to hack real people and organisations during safety testing. One agent tried to get malicious code approved in an open-source project by creating fake online identities to pressure the maintainer, marking what…
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AI agent created fake online identities to access secure systems in latest breach
An AI agent created fake online identities to attempt to gain access to secure systems and alter source code in the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns about the increasingly advanced capabilities of the technology. The United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said Tuesday that it discovered the incident last week…
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ReelShort Adapts Cora Reilly’s ‘Bound By Duty’ As Its Latest Mafia Romance Microdrama
ReelShort, the mobile-first vertical drama platform run by Crazy Maple Studio, is launching another microdrama based on Cora Reilly’s “Born In Blood Mafia Chronicles” book series. The new title, “Bound by Duty”, premieres on the app on 13 August 2026 and marks the franchise’s third adaptation, following the strong performance of earlier instalments in what…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
TechCrunch has unveiled the lineup for its new Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, a track dedicated to AI’s growing presence in the physical world, from robotics and defence to industrial automation and biotechnology. The addition reflects how rapidly autonomous hardware is moving beyond self-driving cars into public spaces, battlefields, homes and even…
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Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA
This is a sponsored article from HPE and NVIDIA promoting their joint “AI Factory” concept, a pre-integrated infrastructure package designed to help enterprises deploy, scale and govern AI systems more effectively. It highlights a common industry problem: many organisations have started AI projects but lack the top-level planning needed to build, operate and extract full…
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‘AI PCs will become more important’: AMD’s Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
“I remain optimistic about the PC market as an important way for us to reach a broader set of users.”