This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 8) Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/08/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-august-8-2/

Channel
SingularityHub
@SingularityHub_com
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
38subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001219546570 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @SingularityHub_com |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 9 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/SingularityHub_com |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026, 17:09 | 38 | -2 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 19:15 | 40 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:36 | 40 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 14 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong. Today's AI is neither able to improve itself recursively nor is it intelligent like us. Between prompts it remains a static mathematical object. https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/07/sam-altman-says-were-in-the-singularity-with-ai-heres-why-hes-wrong/
Why Do Some People Never Get Cancer? The Answer May Be in Their Blood Researchers will hunt for antibodies in the blood of people who lived past 100, drank heavily, or smoked—but avoided cancer. https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/06/why-do-some-people-never-get-cancer-the-answer-may-be-in-their-blood/
Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source. Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/04/heat-is-an-orbital-data-centers-greatest-foe-these-tiles-dump-it-at-the-source/
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 1) Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/01/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-august-1-2/
Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/31/europe-approves-bionic-eye-to-restore-vision-lost-to-blindness/
‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/30/hello-there-the-jacobian-conjecture-is-false-thanx-why-a-tiny-social-media-post-has-mathematicians-rethinking-ai/
Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/28/why-scientists-redesigned-the-botox-enzyme-with-ai/
Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/27/weak-ai-regulation-could-be-worse-than-none-at-all/
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25) Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/25/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-july-25-2/
Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/24/scientists-are-designing-crispr-gene-editors-with-ai/
OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face The incident is a first and signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity. https://singularityhub.com/2026/07/23/openai-agent-breaks-free-and-hacks-hugging-face/
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SingularityHub_com. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 24 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SingularityHub” (@SingularityHub_com), 38 subscribers as measured 24 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SingularityHub_com.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.