AI News 2026-08-04 — Top 10 AI Stories

Curated AI news digest for 2026-08-04 (timezone Asia/Shanghai).

  1. Congress’ favorite AI tool? ChatGPT — TechCrunch AI. House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
  2. Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip — TechCrunch AI. OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
  3. The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks — MIT Technology Review. This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to ma…
  4. After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’ — TechCrunch AI. After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
  5. 亿级日活App的“算力生死劫”：推理成本倒挂，他们靠跨云架构砍掉75% GPU集群 — 量子位. 出海AI，正被“三重算力锁链"捆死
  6. 8点1氪丨宗馥莉同父异母兄弟出任新公司董事长；DeepSeek升至全球调用量第一；iPhone被曝最高或涨价超千元 — 36氪. 今日热点导览 OpenAI下一代模型Astra曝光，以2000美元算力成本破解十项数学难题 江小白起诉东方甄选结果公布：东方甄选构成商业诋毁判赔30万 iPhone被曝最高或涨价超千元，折叠屏iPhone至少2000美元起售 多平台牛蛙抽检抗生素超标，有样本检测出禁用兽药 王思聪卸任万达产业投资公司董事 TOP3大新闻 宗馥莉同父异母兄弟出任新公司董事长，实际控制人为杜建英 据天眼查显示，7月31日，杭州天杞优品食品有限公司成立，注册资本为300万元，经营范围包含互联网销售、食品进出口、食品销售等。该公司由浙江三捷投资管理有限公司、百瑞源枸杞股份有限公…
  7. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals — MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make mon…
  8. Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated — TechCrunch. OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize…
  9. 美国政府完成先进 AI 模型自愿性评估框架制定，内容未公开 — IT之家. IT之家 8 月 4 日消息，据 Axios 报道，美国政府当地时间周一表示，已经按期完成了一项针对先进 AI 模型评估的自愿性框架制定工作。但白宫并未透露该框架具体包含哪些内容、哪些机构或企业已经查看过，以及企业何时会开始采用这一框架。 IT之家注意到，政策制定者、AI 安全倡导者以及美国盟友都在等待了解，全球最强大 AI 模型将受到怎样的监管规则约束。白宫方面表示：“6 月 2 日行政命令中提出的自愿性框架已经在截止日期前完成。” 一名白宫官员表示：“目前正在与行业讨论下一步计划。”他补充称，政府正在与“远不止 Anthropic、OpenAI 和…
  10. 赛博义父Tibo爆料：谷歌早一年就做出了ChatGPT，硬是没敢发！ — 量子位. 终究还是喜提了「美国豆包」

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