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Vol. I — No. 49
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Tuesday, 11 August 2026
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. — Peter Agre 18 items · 2 sections
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The Morning

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The Town Square

Hacker News 9
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Top story
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Story: summary generation failed.

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Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
ft.com10 Aug
331
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
cactuscompute.com10 Aug
297
As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
thewalrus.ca10 Aug
210
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
kuber.studio10 Aug
177
How Claude marks AI-generated content
support.claude.com10 Aug
149
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints
wcax.com10 Aug
108
Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
openai.com10 Aug
102
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
lemonde.fr11 Aug
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