New polls from Pew Research, CNBC, and YouGov show that the majority of Americans think AI development is moving too fast and are concerned about its future. As TechCrunch reports, this is an increase over last year, suggesting that even as AI becomes more integrated into our day-to-day lives, many are increasingly worried.
https://ca.pcmag.com/ai/17544/not-an-ai-optimist-youre-with-the-majority-of-americans
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco, alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages, and that they instead rely on AI-generated estimates that have “a coin flip’s chance of being correct,” according to the complaint.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/oura-faces-lawsuit-accusing-it-of-misleading-consumers-about-sleep-tracking-accuracy/
A number of videos showcasing the Steam Frame's accessories, controllers, fits, and setup process have appeared on the Arm Steam Client. Unsurprisingly, Valve pulled them shortly after they were spotted, but the internet had already grabbed them for safekeeping.
https://ca.pcmag.com/vr/17538/valve-steam-frame-tutorial-videos-leak-showing-accessories-controllers-more
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated. At the time, Anthropic did not explain how this would work, leaving us to speculate on the podcast: Would it somehow encode this into the text? Include invisible characters? Do something with the metadata? We now know, thanks to a blog post over the weekend, that Anthropic will do this by changing how its AI writes altogether.
https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/
Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools. This is a slippery slop. As some experts argue, any intrusion of automation into the writing process isn’t just threatening students’ composition skills, but their entire ability to think.
https://futurism.com/future-society/students-lose-ability-think-ai
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games hosted a livestream of its latest early access version of the game, and it all went horribly wrong, as PC Gamer reports. Despite being played by the people making the game, hosted on private servers with no network latency, the game suffered from performance issues and bugs, preventing the team from finishing the event.
https://ca.pcmag.com/pc-games/17510/star-citizens-latest-livestream-showed-many-bugs-performance-issues
For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/cursor-capitalizes-on-github-frustration-launches-rival-hosting-platform/