The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 Nvidia has secured $500 billion from Wall Street for AI infrastructure<\/strong> 6 Flock\u2019s car-tracking cameras are facing a bipartisan backlash<\/strong> 9 The AI slop backlash is working<\/strong> 10 An 82-year-old rejected\u00a0$26 million to turn her farm into\u00a0a data center<\/strong> Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014Senator Bernie Sanders urges Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg to pause all AI development in a letter.<\/p>\n One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n A new field of science is using genetic sequencing to predict what kind of person an embryo might become. Some parents turn to these tests to avoid devastating genetic disorders, while a much smaller group are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to optimize for intelligence, appearance, and personality.<\/p>\n Customers, however, may not be getting what they\u2019re paying for. Genetics experts have highlighted the potential deficiencies of this testing for years, while its underlying assumptions have made these companies a political lightning rod.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #big #LLMs #academic #research #shifting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The must-reads I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12819,152,803,7507,192,5127,12840],"class_list":["post-19712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-academic","tag-big","tag-download","tag-llms","tag-research","tag-shifting","tag-the-download-the-next-big-thing-in-llms-and-how-ai-academic-research-is-shifting"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp.jpeg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-300x150.jpeg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-768x384.jpeg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-1024x512.jpeg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp.jpeg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp.jpeg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-1024x512.jpeg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/269798_futureLLMs.webp-540x340.jpeg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s struck deals with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four others. (BBC)
+ Showing the pull of AI compute for \u2060institutional investors.<\/em> (Reuters $)
+\u00a0And that AI infrastructure is becoming a new asset class.<\/em> (CNBC)
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2 Mark Zuckerberg’s new manifesto says open-source AI can save the US<\/strong>
It presents a utopian vision of personalized \u201csuperintelligence.\u201d (Guardian)
+ And arrived the same day as Meta\u2019s new, open-source model. <\/em>(NYT $)
+ Zuckerberg said he plans to launch more of these models.<\/em> (WSJ $)
+ And pit Meta against Chinese open-weight developers.<\/em> (SCMP)
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3 Bernie Sanders has called on Silicon Valley to \u201cpause AI development\u201d<\/strong>
He noted that AI giants have pledged to do this if necessary for safety.
+ And warned that lawmakers will step in if no action is taken.<\/em> (Guardian)
+ House Democrats are already pressing AI leaders over rogue models.<\/em> (WP $)
+ A populist backlash is building against AI.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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4 A US court will allow thousands of social media lawsuits to proceed<\/strong>
The suits target addictive mechanisms used by Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snapchat. (Axios)
+ They claim the platforms are designed to hook young users.<\/em> (Reuters $)
+ Can we repair the internet?<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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5 Unitree’s IPO is more than 8,000 times oversubscribed by retail<\/strong>
The Chinese humanoid firm raised $900 million ahead of its listing. (Reuters $)
+ Its pricing for the Shanghai IPO values the company at $9 billion. <\/em>(FT $)<\/p>\n
The surveillance network has spread rapidly across the US. (NYT $)
+ Flock also plans to chase shoplifters with drones.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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7 China is breaking up AI relationships<\/strong>
Beijing has introduced new rules for emotionally interactive AI. (Rest of World)
+ It\u2019s surprisingly easy to fall for a chatbot.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)
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8 An AI tool claims to pick the best 1% of scientific papers<\/strong>
But researchers doubt that AI can reliably judge scientific quality. (Nature)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pushing platforms to restrict AI-generated content. (Wired $)<\/p>\n
She criticised the environmental impacts of data centers. (Fortune)<\/p>\n\u201cIt is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nThe race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess<\/strong><\/h4>\n