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One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research (slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 AI

Iran counters Trump “D-Day” by Menacing Arab Oil Monarchies (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-24 Trump Arabia Iran

Climate Change: Gov't cannot Provide Water to Puerto Ricans, US Citizens (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-24 Climate

Hind Rajab, Israeli Impunity and the International Community (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-24 Israel

Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 AI

Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-24 Nvidia

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-8-24 China Robot

How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-24

Australia can lead middle-power support for US – and make itself indispensable (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-24 Australia

Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Linux

SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Japan Retail

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 U.S. Google Microsoft AI

What Russia learned from Putin and Trump in Anchorage (www.rt.com)
2026-8-24 Trump Russia Putin

Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 Trump

2 children killed in Ukrainian drone strike on childcare center – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-8-24 Drone Ukraine

The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Quantum

Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Hong Kong IPO Morgan Stanley JPMorgan Goldman

2 kids killed in Ukrainian drone strike on childcare center – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-8-24 Drone Ukraine

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-24 AI

Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Amazon AI

OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24

Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 Republican

The new world won't be ruled by the ICC's bias – or Washington's overreach (www.rt.com)
2026-8-24

Putin hints at ‘catastrophic scenario' for Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2026-8-24 Putin Ukraine

Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-24

Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Iran

Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Russia

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24

Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 AI

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