Harvard & MIT researchers built 8.3B AI personas to simulate world's population

US AI data centers depend on China-linked supplies of transformers, batteries, and optical gear. Washington is moving to tighten restrictions on foreign equipment.

China's first micro-drama regulation took effect September 1, requiring AI-generated micro-dramas to carry AI disclosure labels in every episode and banning recommendation algorithms that encourage addiction. In H1 2026, AI-generated productions accounted for over 74% of 367,000 micro-dramas released.

Tesla Cybercabs are now operating across downtown Austin with no steering wheel, pedals, or human driver, two years after a closed-track demo. The fleet is expanding ahead of a September 3rd launch.

Sergio Paniego's open-source recipe trains Qwen3.5-35B-A3B via GRPO to write p5.brush JavaScript, reproducing Surya Narreddi's viral watercolour model. All artifacts—environment, hand-rated pool, 3 runs, and paintings—are published on Hugging Face.

Video deep-dive explains FAD, a key objective metric for evaluating generative audio models like Suno, building intuition from math to code.