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The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a

Reuters: Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export AI servers to China — Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had i

Financial Times: Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network — When the US and Israel

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati

Damien Cave / New York Times: Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life — A Gallup

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” — OpenAI CEO

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companie

Ina Fried / Axios: Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts — Meta's move to allow

New York Times: Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city — Anthropic, the artificial i

Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more — Kids can now ask

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief

The workforce is no longer purely human — and closing the gap between how companies manage people and how they govern AI agents has become one of the defining operational challenges of the digital wor

Deedy / @deedydas: SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth — The vibes in SF fee

Emma Roth / The Verge: Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others — This new standard

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised 400M from W Group at a 1B valuation — Few technology

Yael Grauer / The Verge: Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models — Security researche

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “Ther

Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security

Financial Times: A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most am

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment” — The mission of Thinkin

William Earl / Variety: Netflix signs deals with Penske Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, People, and other publishers to carry a range of programming from 2 to 20+ minutes, starting August 3 — Netflix is fu

TechCrunch: SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi

New York Times: Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck — Jose Flores was driving w

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending

Jay Peters / The Verge: Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more — Adam Mosseri w

Jay Peters / The Verge: Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add “communities” this year, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” — They're set t

Aaron Holmes / The Information: In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout — Microsoft

Jennifer Maas / Variety: ESA and YouGov: 212.3M people in the US between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week, up 3% from 2025; the average age of players rises to 37 — Two-thirds of Ameri

Jaimie Ding / Associated Press: California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US — California's attorney

Bloomberg: Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week — Taiwan prosecutors suspect th

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica: The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI — Pilots' vo

Bloomberg: Taiwan is seeking to detain three people for forging documents to export Nvidia-powered Super Micro servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, breaking US rules — Taiwanese officials are seeki

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when yo

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers accessed its network from Nov. 2025 to Feb. 2026, exposing personal data, medical records, and fingerprints of 1.8M+ people — New York

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a 6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of 30M — Employee

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia — Meta shares fell

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi

NPR: How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms — Fifteen minutes after Susan Bourg

The Information: Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes

Neurologyca, a company working on human-centric artificial intelligence, announced the launch of a research division on Tuesday dedicated to advancing AI models’ ability to understand and adapt to peo

Nearly a quarter of adults in states with lone star ticks have alpha-gal antibodies in their blood, according to recent CDC estimates. Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a serious, potentially life-threateni