Lots of issues with the food supply lately.

>Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
Please no. Not ever.

What AI chatbots can do with your personal data
>Imagine a chatbot built to keep you talking a little longer. To change your mind about something. Or persuade you to buy something. Now imagine it could draw on everything it knows about you — including the fears, insecurities and private details you shared in conversation — to do it.
>"The more a system knows about you, the easier it will be to make escalating requests for private details in a way that feels natural"

If you thought they knew everything about us already...

Dario Amodei Says AI Needs to 'Actually' Cure Cancer to Win Over Public

That would be a great day.

US to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-tell-partners-they-must-pick-sides-ai-race-with-china-2026-08-14/

Albertsons Says Its Shoppers Are Buying More—Thanks to AI - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/albertsons-says-its-shoppers-are-buying-morethanks-to-ai-81793975?mod=rss_Technology

Alibaba challenges Meta with new laptop-ready AI model
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/alibaba-meta-qwen-open-weight-ai-laptop-models.html

The Hottest AI Models Aren't the Ones Developers Actually Use - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-ai-models-usage-data-hugging-face-2026-8

Your AI is emailing my AI—and nobody's in charge
Half of U.S. workers use AI to write their messages.  - Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/91588570/ai-emailing-ai-nobodys-in-charge?partner=rss

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/08/17/code-fixers-have-fired-up-the-ai-warp-drive-strange-new-worlds-await/5287681

What AI chatbots can do with your personal data
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/secrets-share-ai-openai-meta-google-anthropic

'I see the incredible promise': on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech | Film industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-film-making

Why people aren't buying Mark Zuckerberg's AI future | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/why-people-arent-buying-mark-zuckerbergs-ai-future/

Dario Amodei Says AI Needs to 'Actually' Cure Cancer to Win Over Public - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-public-opinion-cure-cancer-2026-8

51% more home sellers in the U.S. make it a buyers' market, survey says - nj.com
https://www.nj.com/news/2026/08/there-has-never-been-a-worse-time-to-sell-a-home-survey-says.html

Walmart recalls Marketside tomato bisque soup over possible Listeria risk | Fox Business
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-tomato-bisque-soup-recalled-possible-listeria-contamination

Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/15/egg-recall-us-south-and-south-west-salmonella-outbreak

He must not have been a billionaire
CEO sent to prison for 'largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history' - UPI.com
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/14/ponzi-scheme-georgia/2581786761706/

He's dead, Jim.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he's "heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-andy-beshear-kentucky/

AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-impact-environment-horrifying-new-paper

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on rockets - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/policy-experts-europe-stuck-between-rock-and-a-hard-place-on-launch/

Kittanning man 1st recipient of robotic-assisted kidney transplant at AHN
https://triblive.com/local/regional/kittanning-man-1st-recipient-of-robotic-assisted-kidney-transplant-at-ahn/

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation/

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-ordered-to-make-it-easier-to-download-alternative-android-app-stores/

Technology optimism hour - macwright.com
https://macwright.com/2026/08/14/optimism-hour

DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin
https://deepseek.com/harness/en/

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
https://web.archive.org/web/20260814152736/https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/

I'm not interested in the saas but there are a few insights about agentic search

I fixed Claude Code's web browsing with a free tool — and it changed everything
https://www.makeuseof.com/fixed-claude-codes-web-browsing-with-free-tool-it-changed-everything/

University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-employees