Saturday, October 10, 2026
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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.
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]
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
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'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.
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 — 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.
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 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 continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
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 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.
You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46. [Link: Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants | TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/private-equity-firm-apollo-confirms-data-breach-amid-hacking-wave-targeting-financial-giants/ | TechCrunch]
Economists said there were ongoing concerns over the level of borrowing as national debt passed $40tn.
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Prominent content creators like Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder are in hot water for promoting AI filmmaking service Higgsfield.
Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (Va.), whose district lies in a hotbed of data center activity, pushed to rein them in Thursday, but not enough where the U.S. would lose the technology race to China. “The reality is, if we want to grow and develop some of these emerging technologies like AI and others, we will…
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, YouTube, ChatGPT e Gemini estão entre os serviços que terão de prestar informações à ANPD.
