Friday · September 4, 2026 Vol. I · No. 246
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Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary - phoronix.com Russia proves at EEF that sanctions ineffective, Srbijagas CEO says Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary - phoronix.com Russia proves at EEF that sanctions ineffective, Srbijagas CEO says

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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived

OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenA…

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Oura files to go public

The ring maker says that its business has shown significant revenue growth over the past year.

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Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets

The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing."

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T-Mobile’s Gopalan turns to home internet and AI after a 25% slide

T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination …

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Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed…

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Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world

A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason t…

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The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility

According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber…

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Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows

The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.

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The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)

How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lo…

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The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment 

The company is about to formally launch the gold two-seater, with no steering wheel or pedals -- a move that could change Tesla forever.

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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.

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Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.

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Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies

Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefi…

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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

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A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work

Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming…

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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse S…

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OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

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Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI co…

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Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.

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Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts

Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option. Both of the smart rings will feature an integrated NFC …

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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.

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Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature

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Coworker.ai launches OM2, an organizational memory layer promising to slash enterprise AI token burn by 9x

Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repet…

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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and pre…