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Startup news The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face. Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news New ransomware targets AI model weights and can't even collect the ransom Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Meta AI arrives in Threads DMs for all users worldwide Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk’s SpaceX Honeymoon Crashes as Stock Halves and Trillionaire Status Vanishes Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk Controversial Documentary Finally Heading to the Big Screen Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Jeff Bezos says stress is a signal to work harder, not a reason to stop Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news "Let me borrow a million dollars": Internet reacts hilariously as Elon Musk claims he is a "(Former) Trillionaire" Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028 Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure Aug 16, 2026