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Category: Other News
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Emerging/Weak August 24, 2026: How China’s gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
Chinese developers are buying Claude tokens through ‘transfer stations’—API proxies hosted on overseas servers—at roughly 10 percent of the official price, bypassing Anthropic’s geoblocking, credit card checks, and…
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Culture Stuff August 24, 2026: Isaac Julien, Museum Dreams retrospective in Bergamo
Art Exhibitions and Museum News this week: Isaac Julien’s retrospective Museum Dreams has opened at gres art 671 in Bergamo, running from April 10 to October; and The Armory Show will introduce its first-ever museum acquisition prizes at…
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Long & Good August 24, 2026: Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
Eight Democratic U.S. senators, led by Raphael Warnock, have criticized the Trump administration’s demands for access to foreign health data as a condition for providing lifesaving aid.
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Long & Good August 24, 2026: Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded
AI’s Impact on Business and the Environment this week: The FCC has added ‘advanced robotic devices’ to its Covered List, banning new foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds; and Beijing dumpling shop owner Li Bo built an AI ‘skill’ that lets…
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Emerging/Weak August 17, 2026: What We Learned, Motif 3 Final Release MIT, Liquid AI Open-Weights Vision Model, and more
Emerging Tech & Weak Signals this week: Hugging Face and alphaXiv ran a community hackathon that attempted to reproduce 2,200 papers from ICML 2026 using AI; and Motif Technologies quietly released the final weights of its Motif 3…
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Culture Stuff August 17, 2026: Dave Marsh Veteran Rock Critic, Torishéju Dumi is building, Black Mid-Century Artist Felrath Hines, and more
Cultural Milestones this week: Dave Marsh, the influential rock critic and Bruce Springsteen biographer, died on August 14 at his home in; and Torishéju Dumi, winner of the 2025 LVMH Savoir Faire Prize, is building a fashion label rooted…
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Long & Good August 17, 2026: Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt, They’re Putting Kids Lives, More Than Half, and more
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: ProPublica’s investigation reveals how the Trump administration repurposed Homeland Security Investigations—an; and A ProPublica and WPLN investigation reveals that Wayne Halfway House, a Tennessee…
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Emerging/Weak August 10, 2026: Korea Opens Citizen Lottery, TutorMoments Do AI tutors know, How we built, and more
Emerging Tech & Weak Signals this week: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT will deploy a 200-person citizen lottery panel to evaluate four competing; and Hugging Face and Learning Commons released TutorMoments, a replay-based…
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Culture Stuff August 10, 2026: Berlin’s sleeping architectural giant, Controversial designer John, Before manga India had murals, and more
Cultural Milestones this week: Berlin’s ICC conference centre, dormant since 2014 and listed as a historical monument in 2019, is set for a major; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that the 2027 Met Gala will honor John…
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Long & Good August 10, 2026: Unmasking Two Butchers, 480 000 After Being Wrongly, Impossible Job Facing, and more
Long-Form Worth Your Time this week: A SIRAJ investigation, published with New Lines, identifies two former Syrian army officers—Lt.