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Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology.
The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen”
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html

How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.

 “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening [to you] for the benefits of this technology [to me/"us"] and people having the agency". [Clarifying comments in brackets by poster]
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

 “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening [to you] for the benefits of this technology [to me/"us"] and people having the agency". [Clarifying comments in brackets by poster]
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/tiktok-layoffs-nashvil…

TikTok Is Laying Off 250 Employees in Its Nashville Office
The office was home to members of the app’s content moderation team.

How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/technol

How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s leading A.I. firms.

Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter model to map code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space, under an Apache 2.0 license (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases

The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, up 40% over the 4,500 images assessed in all of 2025 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202…

Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000 people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technol

Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

Vinci, which makes software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design, raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/software-startup-vinci-raises-250-million-15-bi…