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Lenovo Pro 9i 16 G11 Aura Edition Review: A Pretty Screen Stuffed Into an Ugly Laptop

Gizmodo - Aug 07, 2026 1:15pm EDT

Meta To Pay Hundreds Of Millions In New Mexico For Harming Kids. More Lawsuits Are Pending

Meta has been ordered to pay an additional $567 million in a legal case where it was found that the company's products hurt the mental health of children and enabled sexual predators.

International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 1:15pm EDT

Lawmakers From Meta's Biggest Market Want Zuckerberg To Apologize After Restricting a Post From Its PM

A parliamentary committee threatened to recommend stripping the company of its safe harbor protections unless Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologizes over the temporary restriction of a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 12:28pm EDT

A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol

The Atlantic - Aug 07, 2026 12:17pm EDT

AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.

Live Science - Aug 07, 2026 11:46am EDT

A company got approval to put a giant mirror in space. Experts are raising alarms

The new technology aims to reflect sunlight back to Earth to illuminate streets and neighborhoods without electricity after dark.

Newsweek - Aug 07, 2026 11:46am EDT

Whatnot valued at $20 billion as live shopping continues to boom

Whatnot, the live commerce platform, has increased its valuation to $20 billion as the popularity of live shopping continues to grow.

CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 11:17am EDT

How worried should we be about rogue AI agents?

The Week - Aug 07, 2026 11:13am EDT

July jobs report, Airbnb earnings, fuel prices and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 11:06am EDT

The UAE ranked among the world's top 10 for ChatGPT adoption, World Bank says

World Bank names UAE a global AI leader, praising Falcon models, strong talent inflows and rapid adoption across the economy in its 2026 development report.

Gulf News - Aug 07, 2026 10:58am EDT

Data center builders shatter myths | Fox News Video

The people who build data centers say they want to correct misconceptions about the impact of the giant server farms.

Fox News - Aug 07, 2026 10:55am EDT

White House meets with AI companies about ‘voluntary’ rules after forcing models offline

The meeting produced no public commitments, and the White House hasn’t said whether it would again use the power that knocked two Anthropic models offline in June.

NBC News - Aug 07, 2026 10:13am EDT

AI Is Now Designing Viruses From Scratch. Experts Say The Rules Aren't Ready

A Stanford-led team has used generative AI to design functional viruses never seen in nature, marking a milestone for synthetic biology.

International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 9:50am EDT

Samsung 990 PRO Gen4 SSD Sees Nearly 40% Off on Amazon, Now Only Slightly More Than the 1TB Version

Gizmodo - Aug 07, 2026 8:40am EDT

China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage

Chinese AI companies have made recent leaps in closing the performance gap with U.S. frontier labs.

CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 8:29am EDT

US Court Orders Meta To Pay $567 Million For Teen Mental Health Fund

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 8:14am EDT

Google Pixel 10a Lands at Its Lowest Price Yet, and an Eligible Trade-In Covers Almost the Entire Cost

Gizmodo - Aug 07, 2026 8:11am EDT

The 'Godfather Of AI' Says The Worst Is Yet To Come With Smarter Models Becoming Harder To Control

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems will become harder to control, saying recent incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta may be early signs of more sophisticated rogue behavior to come.

International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 6:48am EDT

OpenAI’s luxury brand trip for influencers blasted by online critics as ‘dystopian’

The AI company hosted an exclusive “summer camp” for influencers at Wildflower Farms in New York.

NBC News - Aug 07, 2026 6:17am EDT

First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening?

A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences.

BBC News - Aug 07, 2026 6:00am EDT

AI found a weakness in one of the world's most studied encryption systems — is your data under threat?

Live Science - Aug 07, 2026 5:46am EDT

OpenAI Introduces Unlimited Text Chats for Free Users, Improved GPT-5.6 Sol

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 5:32am EDT

Meta ordered to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online

Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered by a New Mexico court to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms...

Daily Sabah - Aug 07, 2026 5:27am EDT

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Working on AI Smart Speaker, Likely To Release in 2027

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 07, 2026 5:03am EDT