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Daily Tech News 22 August 2026

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All the news is stupid.
AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and then craters their exam scores. (Economist) (archive site)

Who knew?
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 is a smut machine. (Tech Crunch)

The whole article is about users deliberately jail-breaking Claude Opus 4.6, an older version of that particular LLM, to use it to write porn. And blames Anthropic for it.

Tech News

Micron is building a $10 billion AI memory research center in Boise, Idaho. (Yahoo)

Not a factory, just a lab.

Good news if you're an AI memory researcher. Or a builder.
Florida is seeking a court order to classify ChatGPT as a public nuisance. (Tom's Hardware)

This is getting silly.
Canada plans counter-tariffs to fight tariffs being imposed by the US as trade talks implode. (BBC)

Cratering its economy while barely affecting the US.
Slovakia bought hundreds of new traffic cameras - only to find that all of the are Russian spy equipment. (Tom's Hardware)

Lowest bidder, huh?

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Disclaimer: Stupid! You're so stupid!

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