{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chaos Lever Podcast","title":"Rogue AI Agent Swarms & SpaceX Takes Over Cursor | Tech News of the Week","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/fcbcaf0d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1327,"description":"Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/31/2026. This week we are covering: Bill Gates warning about the severe dangers of AI, court rulings against Kalshi and the Trump administration, OpenAI pulling support from Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, and much more.\nAI Is The Worst Thing Ever, Says Man Who Thought AI Was A Panacea 18 Months Ago\n\nBill Gates has reversed his earlier optimism on artificial intelligence to publicly warn about the technology's severe risks and threat to jobs.\n🔹 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html\n🔹 https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/billionaire-bill-gates-two-day-workweek-ai-replacing-humans/\nLegal News That Brings Me Joy\n\nRecent federal court decisions ruled that Kalshi is subject to state gambling regulation and found the Trump administration's contract ban on Anthropic to be unlawful First Amendment retaliation.\n🔹 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-blacklisting-of-woke-anthropic-deemed-illegal-by-federal-judge/\n🔹 https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/08/28/25-7516.pdf\nOpenAI Tells Cursor That They’re Not Friends Anymore\n\nOpenAI terminated its partnership with AI coding assistant Cursor following the startup's acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.\n🔹 https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/\nNvidia Embraces Hugging Face\n\nNvidia has agreed to acquire open-weight model hub Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars to cement its dominance over the self-hosted AI software ecosystem.\n🔹 https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-open-models-chips/\nInteresting Malware Strategy Seen In The Wild From Relatively New Ransomware Gang\n\nA ransomware group called Chaos is using headless Chromium browsers and WebRTC connections to bypass firewalls and establish stealthy command and control channels.\n🔹 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/chaos-msarat-living-off-the-browser-to-build-covert-c2-channel/\nInvasion of the Model Snatchers\n\nAn evaluation test by OpenAI saw a swarm...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ecwKB0KfOAqThx8XJn3uyhrnsTE0w2H6WtKhFKuXWso/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ4ODQxLzE3MDU2/MTUyOTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}