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Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships
Register UK - Aug 07, 2026 2:55pm EDT
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Ars Technica - Aug 07, 2026 1:43pm EDT
Trump is right to purse diplomacy with ‘fractured’ Iran, Victoria Coates says | Fox News Video
Former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates joins 'The Faulkner Focus' to discuss escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, threats in the Strait of Hormuz and reports of Iranian cyberattacks targeting water systems.
Fox News - Aug 07, 2026 1:42pm 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
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
SK Hynix Makes a New $38 Billion AI Bet: Memory Plants For South Korea
SK Hynix is making one of its biggest bets yet on the artificial intelligence boom, announcing plans to invest 54 trillion Korean won, or about $38.1 billion, to expand its memory chip manufacturing capacity.
International Business Times - Aug 07, 2026 12:10pm 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
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
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
SK Hynix to invest $38 billion building new memory chip plants as demand soars
Memory prices have surged because of short supply and huge demand with investors watching closely for any changes to the supply-demand imbalance.
CNBC - Aug 07, 2026 7:30am 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
Live Science - Aug 07, 2026 5:46am 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