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The wire for Sunday, 23 August 2026
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- Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
- The African firms adopting Chinese AI as US-China rivalry intensifies
- US efforts to secure AI supply chains are doomed to fail: Chinese academic
- China’s overlooked internet army is quietly embedding AI into everyday businesses
- Asia is reaching for the open road that Chinese AI offers
- Hong Kong to launch AI training for workers in November with big tech firms
- Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
- Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone
- Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
- Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
- Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
- The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
- Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
- This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
- Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours
- Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
- Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS
- Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs
- SOP-Bench: A new benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real business procedures
- Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI
- The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
- From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
- As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
- When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
- Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat
- Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
- Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
- 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
- One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time
- Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
- ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models
- An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction
- Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces
- AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement
- Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation
- MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use
- NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message
- Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
- Debates over AI consciousness are a trap