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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet
27/08/2026 | 7 min
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

And the FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
26/08/2026 | 6 min
First announced last October, Jalapeño was developed by OpenAI in close collaboration with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own models assisting in the development process.

Also, The M5 Ultra, which Apple deems its “most powerful chip ever,” fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips to form Apple’s first quad-die chip, designed to manage hefty AI workloads.
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns; plus, Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired
25/08/2026 | 8 min
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs

Also, Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? Plus, is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
24/08/2026 | 8 min
A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

Also, most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
21/08/2026 | 6 min
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Also, Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
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