"ASU is a pioneer in online education, and many of our students earn their degrees without ever stepping foot on campus"wild story: prof suspects students in online class of using AI. but they turn out not to be human students at all, but bots probably part of a scam to collect financial aid money by mimicking the existence of students https://t.co/QJUhik5SGE
— csz (@cszabla) August 11, 2026
A 27-year-old employee at BlackRock has let AI 'journalists' loose on the Bay Area. They're mostly taking human reporters' work. missionlocal.org/2026/08/the-...
— Mission Local (@missionlocal.org) August 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Update: Today, the court denied much of Otter's motion to dismiss.
— Rob Freund (@RobertFreundLaw) August 13, 2026
The plaintiffs have plausibly stated a claim for violations of the federal ECPA, and California's and Illinois's privacy laws. https://t.co/A7rnkwbrko
A person representing themselves in court hid a prompt injection attack in a filing asking an AI system to side with them: www.404media.co/person-hides...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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not at all worried about rebranding what LLMs do as "intelligence" and what that could mean long term for education
— adamatomic (@adamatomic.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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("married Amodei in 2022 after previously dating former Google chief Eric Schmidt")Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.
— Forbes (@forbes.com) August 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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We already have anti-bot & anti-scraping measures through Cloudflare. We already set CF’s robots.txt telling bots not to scrape for AI. We went as far as to opt out of federated services even if it made us unpopular, just so it's clear we don't want our users' data scraped. 2/
— Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) August 14, 2026
We care deeply about supporting professional artists and the time, craft, and effort that goes into the work they create. Your voices will be an important part of how we think about what comes next. Keep it coming. We’re here, and we’re listening.
— ArtStation.com (@ArtStationHQ) August 11, 2026
Suggestions on how to set up your own siteWebtoons going all in on AI.
— Kenny Meyers (@kennym.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
— WIRED (@wired.com) August 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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they know we don't want it. they do not care.
— TQ 🌿 (@witchytq.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Is that how they managed to screw up Lobo's look?"Gotta feel for all the artists watching their career fields diminish and dreams shatter right before their very eyes."
— Futurism (@futurism.com) August 14, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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In China, you can't make misleading claims in advertisements. That gets tricky when an AI actor is your brand ambassador.
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) August 10, 2026
In my last newsletter, I mentioned the success of the Chinese short AI drama "Laid-Off Girl" (被裁掉的女孩) and its protagonist, Fang Taozi (方桃子). She… pic.twitter.com/fOgonVvUcS
("we’re announcing another step in our effort to ensure Spotify is the most transparent and trustworthy place to listen to music")you know how bad the AI slop problem had to get for this to happen? newsroom.spotify.com/2026-08-11/a...
— Kate Knibbs (@knibbs.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Great story from ABC this morning about a chap in Melbourne who asked an AI agent (OpenClaw) to book a gym class, and it ended up hacking the gym's booking system to kick people off the waiting list. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
— Nick Miller (@nickdmiller.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user then asked if it could move him up the… pic.twitter.com/9QqfpQp7ze
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) August 9, 2026
finally saw obsession and wrote about it as an AI movie www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...
— Max Read (@maxread.info) August 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Just caught up and watched the BlackHat OpenAI talk about their Hugging Face hack. The secret messages sent between the bots would be quite funny... if they weren't troubling. What a moment we are in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...
— Joe Tidy BBC News (@joetidy.bsky.social) August 12, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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(This is about an accusation and retraction on the Apple-centric site Daring Fireball)This Dark Hours situation, which may or may not involve a dev plagiarising (inadvertently?) an app with the help of AI, highlights a wider issue: Someone who says “I made an app” when actually they just prompted Claude, may have no idea if they plagiarised at all.
— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Woof.
— Mike Vorkunov (@MikeVorkunov) August 8, 2026
From this demoralizingly good @katiebakes story on Google search https://t.co/kvaTckDYfD pic.twitter.com/kENHSb7ZFQ
AI as having a parasocial relationship to your own self and life
— 👁️ (@nathanjurgenson.com) August 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Has anyone seen the AI videos of boomer parents taking revenge on ungrateful children by withholding financial support? They’re an hour long each, and cast the begrieved parent as a heroic figure. It’s top tier hateslop
— Eryk Salvaggio (@eryk.bsky.social) August 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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🇨🇳 Beijing bar offers free AI tokens with beers
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 12, 2026
Customers in Beijing enjoy free access to AI tools at a bar that has become popular among developers, start-up founders, and investors through the Chinese social media platform WeChat. pic.twitter.com/7KE0C0UgrQ
Lots of excitement about the squeaky beach sounds in Big Walk! You'll all be happy to know it's the real thing! Was absolutely giddy to get to record them on an actual Australian squeaky beach in Wilson's Promontory. Yes, if you didn't know some beaches there really do squeak. It is pure joy.
— Em (@emaudible.bsky.social) August 11, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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