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The wire for Sunday, 23 August 2026
40 unedited headlines, exactly as their publishers wrote them. This is an archived snapshot of what the front page's Wire showed that day — it is not re-ranked or checked after the fact, and it is not reporting. How this differs from the edited paper →
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- Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated Newsroom report
- The African firms adopting Chinese AI as US-China rivalry intensifies Newsroom report
- US efforts to secure AI supply chains are doomed to fail: Chinese academic Newsroom report
- China’s overlooked internet army is quietly embedding AI into everyday businesses Newsroom report
- Asia is reaching for the open road that Chinese AI offers Newsroom report
- Hong Kong to launch AI training for workers in November with big tech firms Newsroom report
- Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors Newsroom report
- Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone Source feed · unverified
- Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research Newsroom report
- Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph Newsroom report
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill Newsroom report
- Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model Newsroom report
- The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom Newsroom report
- Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button Newsroom report
- This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites Source feed · unverified
- Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours Company post · self-reported
- Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway Company post · self-reported
- Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS Company post · self-reported
- Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs Source feed · unverified
- SOP-Bench: A new benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real business procedures Company post · self-reported
- Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI Source feed · unverified
- The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs Newsroom report
- From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games Company post · self-reported
- As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings Newsroom report
- When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit? Newsroom report
- Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat Source feed · unverified
- Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition Hosted post · author claims
- Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock Company post · self-reported
- Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 2: Data preparation and model building with Amazon SageMaker Canvas Company post · self-reported
- One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time Source feed · unverified
- Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI Newsroom report
- ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message Source feed · unverified
- Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark Hosted post · author claims
- Debates over AI consciousness are a trap Newsroom report