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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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★ Must ReadApple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
The Verge AI

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and platforms. Along with ChatGPT, the European Commission also announced that Reddit and Roblox are considered Very Large Online Platforms, subjecting them to the same rules.

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Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
Hacker News

We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our existing receiver tech with a new chip from Semtech. Ask me anything about ADSB or hardware manufacturing!

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★ Must ReadDwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident

Gary Marcus — Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading ...

★ Must ReadImport AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Import AI — Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FI...

Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

Trending on Hacker News with 188 points and 51 comments.

Understanding ChatGPT Work

Simon Willison — Understanding ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Sites Is Surprisingly Good ✨

The easiest new way to make a compelling website

[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor

Latent Space — [AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI
Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch AI
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
Casey Newton, Platformer
Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
Gary Marcus
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