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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months

The price reversal is caused by the unbridled demand for HBM.

·tomshardware.com·Aug 13, 2026

Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

Petlibro suffered an outage that brought its smart pet devices offline, including its RFID and Granary food dispensers, Dockstream water fountain, and Luma litter boxes.

·theverge.com·Aug 13, 2026

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions

·theguardian.com·Aug 13, 2026

Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

·theguardian.com·Aug 13, 2026

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

Chinese bullet train breaks acceleration world record by going from 0 to 800kmph in 5 seconds

Advanced braking systems brings maglev train to smooth stop

·the-independent.com·Aug 13, 2026

Chinese bullet train breaks acceleration world record by going from 0 to 800kmph in 5 seconds

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.

·runnersworld.com·Aug 13, 2026

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

·nytimes.com·Aug 13, 2026

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? - NOEMA

Work has never been able to provide people with the kind of value that a vocation, spiritual belief system or community once did. But AI might change that.

·noemamag.com·Aug 13, 2026

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? - NOEMA

Now That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time Soon

A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.

·ign.com·Aug 13, 2026

Now That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time Soon

Farmer kills 25 acres of his own crops after taking AI’s advice

A farmer lost nearly 25 acres of his own crops after following weed-control advice given to him by an AI tool.

·dexerto.com·Aug 13, 2026

Farmer kills 25 acres of his own crops after taking AI’s advice

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.

·cringebot3000.com·Aug 13, 2026

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work — not take more time off

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth tells employees he'd rather see AI productivity gains spent building more products than taking more time off.

·businessinsider.com·Aug 13, 2026

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work — not take more time off

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost

SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.

·404media.co·Aug 13, 2026

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost

China's electric revolution is extending beyond EVs and trucks to ferries and cargo ships - The Driven IO

China is testing the feasibility of electrification for increasingly larger ships, and electric cargo ships with a range of up to 500 km are already operating in China.

·thedriven.io·Aug 13, 2026

China's electric revolution is extending beyond EVs and trucks to ferries and cargo ships - The Driven IO

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes | TechCrunch

Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.

·techcrunch.com·Aug 13, 2026

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes | TechCrunch

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.

·techcrunch.com·Aug 13, 2026

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch

How to run ChatGPT ads: A step-by-step guide from early campaigns

ChatGPT Ads work differently from other ad platforms. Here’s what early campaigns reveal about CPCs, targeting, measurement, and performance.

·searchengineland.com·Aug 13, 2026

How to run ChatGPT ads: A step-by-step guide from early campaigns

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI

If the weights are free, who pays for the next run, and who will keep us safe?

·open.substack.com·Aug 13, 2026

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI

How to Get Rich in America

on wealth vs labor and ownership vs effort

·kyla.substack.com·Aug 13, 2026

How to Get Rich in America

Global AI & Bot Traffic | Known Agents

Insights into the hidden ecosystem of AI agents, crawlers, scrapers, and other bots swarming across the web, as well as traffic driven from AI chat and search LLMs

·knownagents.com·Aug 13, 2026

Global AI & Bot Traffic | Known Agents

Anthropic puts hidden watermarks on Claude text under new EU rules

New Claude models will embed invisible machine-readable watermarks under Anthropic's plans for complying with EU AI Act transparency rules.

·interestingengineering.com·Aug 13, 2026

Anthropic puts hidden watermarks on Claude text under new EU rules

Pascal Finette – You found me.

Pascal Finette – Co-Founder and Chief Heretic at radical. Author. Speaker. GYSHIDO-San.

·finette.com·Aug 13, 2026

Pascal Finette – You found me.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — while hiring an event planner for 6x the going rate

The comments may be seen as ironic coming from Dario Amodei, considering Anthropic offers some eye-watering salaries for jobs that typically pay much less.

·finance.yahoo.com·Aug 13, 2026

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — while hiring an event planner for 6x the going rate

https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/oversight-letter-to-openai-openai-hugging-face-incident-1.pdf

·casar.house.gov·Aug 13, 2026

https://casar.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/casar.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/oversight-letter-to-openai-openai-hugging-face-incident-1.pdf

Zero Entry: The Forces Reshaping the Accounting Profession

Accounting is changing faster than most firms are ready for. Zero Entry by Rob Hamilton & Jeff Seibert maps the next three years — and how firms can thrive.

·zeroentrybook.com·Aug 6, 2026

Zero Entry: The Forces Reshaping the Accounting Profession

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

People are rising up everywhere.

·yahoo.com·Aug 6, 2026

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”

·wired.com·Aug 6, 2026

Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

·wired.com·Aug 6, 2026

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

The Worst Way to Regulate AI

Abdicating power over the technology to this or any White House would be a mistake.

·theatlantic.com·Aug 6, 2026

The Worst Way to Regulate AI

What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?

A new field of “tokenomics” has emerged to measure the return on all the money companies are pouring into artificial intelligence.

·nytimes.com·Aug 6, 2026

What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?