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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-08-08: 1. Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI 2. OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows i 3. Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf Browser for AI Agents Cloudflare unveiled Kitesurf today, a cloud-hosted browser specifically designed for AI agents rather than humans, using significantly less computing power than traditional Chromium for automation tas 4. Rippling Releases AI Spend Tracking Tool After discovering it had blown millions on AI tools in recent months, Rippling this week launched AI Spend Console, a new product that tracks individual and team-level AI spending across organizations 5. Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-08-08.html