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How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Robot

To Absorb $1 Trillion of New Treasuries in 3 Months, as the Debt Ballooned to $40 Trillion, Investors Demanded Higher Yields. Bessent Blows Fuse (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-20

Australia's AI future relies on our scientific capability (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-20 Australia AI

The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data (www.politico.eu)
2026-8-20

Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 31% after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant manner (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Trump CFTC

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a “back-to-basics” approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-20 Drone Ukraine

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected (www.phonearena.com)
2026-8-20 Samsung

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Working with Australia, India should focus on South Asia's digital transformation (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-20 Australia India Asia

Fault Lines – Putin's Kurils trip, US's carrier gap, China's NZ espionage (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-20 China Putin

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-8-20 Germany Insurance Munich

PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Linux

Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Trump Senate Coinbase

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 YouTube Netflix

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Facebook Instagram Zuckerberg

10 Things Engineered to Fail on Purpose (listverse.com)
2026-8-20

Whoever wins the Meta trial, the masses will remain willing slaves (www.rt.com)
2026-8-20

Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Amazon Drone

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (www.tomsguide.com)
2026-8-20 Google AI

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as data recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

Healthtech firm CareCloud data breach impacts 3.7 million patients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Gold Smells a Rat (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-20

Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Startup AI SpaceX

Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the “beginning of the singularity”, a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY (www.axios.com)
2026-8-20

Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-20

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