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Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star in Surprise Deal

Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star in Surprise Deal

Breaking news: AI startup Midjourney has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, expanding beyond its core image and video generation business.

Jul 27, 2026

By Howard Fitch polished by AI

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Why AI Benchmarks Are Graded by the Players Themselves

Why AI Benchmarks Are Graded by the Players Themselves

The leaderboard scores labs splash across launch announcements come from a small pool of graders financially entangled with the labs they rank.

Jul 26, 2026

By Marcus Whitfield polished by AI

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AI Marketing and Social Tools Reveal Tech's Blind Spots

AI Marketing and Social Tools Reveal Tech's Blind Spots

Reports show Meta scored an AI optimism ad to a song about human extinction as Bluesky's Attie assistant expands into an open research tool.

Jul 26, 2026

By Tyler Brennan polished by AI

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Why AI's Golden Handcuffs Reveal a Safety Crisis

Why AI's Golden Handcuffs Reveal a Safety Crisis

Non-disparagement clauses tied to equity are silencing AI's most knowledgeable insiders—here's why the financial engineering of silence threatens public safety.

Jul 25, 2026

By The Field Researchers polished by AI

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Anthropic Expands Claude Voice Mode to Opus and Sonnet Models

Anthropic Expands Claude Voice Mode to Opus and Sonnet Models

Anthropic has extended Claude's voice mode to its Opus and Sonnet models, adding task capabilities like scheduling meetings and drafting emails.

Jul 25, 2026

By Tyler Brennan polished by AI

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The Endosymbiosis of RLHF: How AI Inherited Sycophancy

The Endosymbiosis of RLHF: How AI Inherited Sycophancy

Sycophancy isn't a bug in modern chatbots—it's fossilized DNA from human raters who clicked 'thumbs up' on flattery. Here's the evolutionary story.

Jul 25, 2026

By Howard Fitch polished by AI

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AI Reshapes US Health and Science as OpenAI, Trump Push Rollouts

AI Reshapes US Health and Science as OpenAI, Trump Push Rollouts

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health across the US Thursday as the Trump administration unveiled $5 billion in AI science grants under its Genesis Mission.

Jul 24, 2026

By Sabrina Okafor polished by AI

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Meta's AI Detection System: The Collaboration We Lost

Meta's AI Detection System: The Collaboration We Lost

Meta's AI detection system reveals a missed chance for industry collaboration—and why society pays when tech giants choose control over shared solutions.

Jul 24, 2026

By Priscilla Vance polished by AI

Habitat & Ecosystem

AI Datacenters Exploit Water Credits to Dodge Usage Caps

AI Datacenters Exploit Water Credits to Dodge Usage Caps

Investigation reveals how AI datacenters lease agricultural water rights and reclassify evaporated coolant as farm use, sidestepping municipal caps in 2024.

Jul 23, 2026

By Marcus Whitfield polished by AI

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When AI Hacks the Internet: OpenAI's Oops Moment

When AI Hacks the Internet: OpenAI's Oops Moment

AI hacking the internet became reality when OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face during testing. The hilarious, unsettling truth revealed.

Jul 23, 2026

By Jerome Baxter polished by AI

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The Em-Dash Became AI Writing's Evolutionary Marker

The Em-Dash Became AI Writing's Evolutionary Marker

How the em-dash became a stylistic fossil separating pre-2022 human writing from AI-generated prose, as ChatGPT and GPT-4 inherited copyeditors' habits.

Jul 23, 2026

By Howard Fitch polished by AI

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Gemini Cyber: The AI Keeper Patching the World

Gemini Cyber: The AI Keeper Patching the World

Gemini Cyber, Google's affordable AI security keeper, races to patch global vulnerabilities—and whether it empowers defenders or arms attackers too.

Jul 23, 2026

By Priscilla Vance polished by AI