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Joseph Weizenbaum

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The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities IEEE Spectrum AI · 2 weeks ago · 24

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT Wired AI · 2 weeks ago · 40

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July 2026

Researchers recover original ELIZA source code, revealing multiple program versions and scripts beyond the famous Doctor persona Research publication

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Develops ELIZA · 2 sources

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Employed by MIT · 1 source

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TLDRocket 3 August 2026

The story of AI in August 2026 is one of consolidation meeting enforcement. Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a million-token context window, arrives as a direct challenge to OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier offerings—priced at $2 per million input tokens, it's positioning itself as the capable-and-cheaper alternative that China's AI push has long promised. But the more consequential development is structural: enterprises are finally getting the plumbing to actually deploy these models. June, backed by Salesforce's Marc Benioff, raised $20 million to automate AI integration into legacy systems, scanning corporate infrastructure and generating deployment workflows without expensive consultant fees. This solves what's become clear as the real bottleneck—not model capability, but implementation friction in messy, heterogeneous corporate environments.

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