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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-08-06: 1. Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, accor 2. Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to con 3. Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at 4. Jeff Dean Leaves Google for AI Startup Legendary Google executive Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are departing Google today to launch their own startup focused on using AI for scientific discovery. This represents a significant bra 5. Anthropic Building Custom AI Chip Design Team Anthropic announced today it is hiring a dedicated team to design custom AI chips, planning to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient performance. This move puts Anthropic in direct Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-08-06.html