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BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B via pay-later loans in 2025, nearly 2x from 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 U.S.

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19

Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 Google Republican

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, a new mode that limits high-risk chats around self-harm, eating disorders, and other topics, adds studying tools, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-18

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-18 U.S.

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to the CFTC in the three months through June; sources: CFTC has up to 20 ongoing probes using just Kalshi's evidence (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-13 CFTC

Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-12 AI

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 AI

How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram contributed to a surge of migrants from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta enclave (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Immigration Spain

As Waymo expands its fleet from 700 in 2025 to nearly 4,000 now, recalls and edge-case failures like flooded roadways and a San Francisco power outage mount (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 San Francisco

AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like “log in and complete my quiz”; major chatbots did not refuse prompts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 AI chatbot

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Apple

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage kicks off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Apple

Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to “financialize everything”, sports betting, Kalshi's “philosophical misalignment” with Polymarket, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-9 Amazon AI

A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-8 Russia Ukraine

Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Trump

TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6

Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical feed Verts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6

Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 China AI Africa

Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical Verts feed (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-5

Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-4 Uber

Sources: the US is focused on promoting US AI models to be more competitive, after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to open source AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-4 AI

Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-4 FBI Cryptocurrency

A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-3 AI

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-3 China Facial Recognition

Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-2

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