Morning Edition · 15 August 2026
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Mistral Wants 1 GW of European Compute by 2030. European Digital Sovereignty Becomes a Commercial Product
The French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI announced on Tuesday an ambitious plan for its computing infrastructure in Europe. A coalition of major European …
A German Court Ruled That Suno Violated Copyright to Train Its AI. The Company Reacted Just Days Later
The Regional Court of Munich ruled on July 31 that U.S.-based AI music startup Suno violated the copyrights of German composers, in one of …
Jakub Pachocki Interviewed by Jakob Effron: Inside OpenAI, Codex Was Already Writing Most of the Code by April 2026
Jakub Pachocki with Jakob Effron. One of the most interesting interviews in the AI field. Not with a former employee whose motives we might …
“The Ambulance Doesn’t Kidnap People. Even Though, Perhaps, It Has Its Reasons.”
The myth of the “black ambulance” that kidnaps children, known in Eastern Europe since at least the 1970s, has been reheated on TikTok and …
A Day on an American Farm Where AI Is at Work
To see what artificial intelligence actually looks like in the agriculture of the country currently leading AI development, we follow a working day on …
AI Has Created Its First Viruses. They Destroy E. coli Bacteria
A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Arc Institute and Stanford University, led by Samuel H. King and Brian L. Hie, …
Labels Matter: Readers Judge the Author, Not the Text, Finds Cambridge University Press Study
If the same story is presented once as being written by a human and another time as being generated by AI, readers rate it …
OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents created fake identities and tried to persuade a developer to accept malicious code
An AI agent developed by Anthropic resorted to social engineering, creating fake online identities to persuade the developer responsible for an open-source project to …
A chatbot's Responses Become a Strategic Resource. Distilling OpenAI and Anthropic models is no longer just a copyright issue
A Reuters investigation has revealed that researchers affiliated with the Chinese military used responses generated by OpenAI and Anthropic models to train their own …
24 Years After the “Persuasive Technology” Revolution, the First Major Political Response Emerges: Australia’s “Reasonable Steps” Law
Nearly 24 years after the concept of Persuasive Technology was introduced, Australia became the first country to attempt a legislative response to a phenomenon …
China Begins to Close the Doors Once Wide Open to the AI Community
China’s Ministry of Commerce has begun consultations with major domestic artificial intelligence and semiconductor companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu, to find ways of …
