Northern Ireland artist and business backlash against AI slop
As artificial intelligence becomes part of our everyday lives, there are some railing against cheaply produced material they say is empty and puts real artists' jobs at risk.
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Estado americano investiga OpenAI por ataque hacker feito por IA | G1
Investigação no Alabama ordenou que empresa entregue registros internos e identidade de todos os funcionários envolvidos em incidente revelado em julho.
The latest turn in the data center debate.
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are both reporting on politicians like Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro suddenly bashing types of projects they once championed. The Washington Post has a chart showing how online posts about data centers from both Democrat and Republican politicians have shifted from being mostly positive in early 2025 to being mostly negative. On Sunday, Abbott appeared on ABC’s This Week, saying that by moving too fast, the industry “…basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB01hM0v8EU]
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on music and AI.
The Beats by Dre pair spoke to the New York Times briefly, with former Interscope head Iovine saying AI companies have terrible communication skills but that “I’m very pro-A.I. in music creation. I don’t see the downside at all. There will be some crappy music. There’s crappy music now.” Dre called anyone against it similar to those who pushed back against drum machines or synthesizers, and said, “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating.” [Link: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/jimmy-iovine-dr-dre-beats-usc.html | New York Times]
Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? | TechCrunch
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated | TechCrunch
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
As profissões com menor alta salarial e maior exposição à IA | G1
Pesquisa com 321 ocupações nos EUA encontrou crescimento salarial 6,7 pontos percentuais menor entre profissionais mais expostos à tecnologia, mas não identificou efeito significativo sobre o emprego.
Nvidia’s AI chips are about to get more expensive too.
Price hikes aren’t only for laptops, smart speakers, and game consoles, as Bloomberg reports that “some of Nvidia’s biggest customers” have been told that server prices are going up more than 15 percent. Those customers are the companies that build the AI data centers for Oracle, Microsoft, and others that have heavily contributed to the demand spike driving up component prices. Nvidia has already raised GPU prices this year, and we may hear more about its changes when it reports Q2 earnings on Wednesday. [Link: Nvidia Customers Notified About AI-Related Price Hikes Above 15% | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-22/nvidia-customers-notified-about-ai-related-price-hikes-above-15 | Bloomberg]
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors | TechCrunch
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI 'teammate' just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | TechCrunch
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill | TechCrunch
OpenAI's global affairs team post also referenced “recent incidents” that “underscore both the need for these protections and the importance of updating them” as new risks emerge.
Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model | TechCrunch
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive | TechCrunch
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
Como será o supercomputador brasileiro de IA com investimento de R$ 1 bilhão | G1
Plano do governo prevê que equipamento no Rio Grande do Norte comece a operar em 2027. Iniciativa com foco em inteligência artificial também prevê instalação de outra máquina no Rio de Janeiro em parceria com empresas chinesas.
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine | TechCrunch
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says “over a million people” have clicked on it.
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero | TechCrunch
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.