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Construction Inflation for Nonresidential Buildings Soars amid AI Investment Mania (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-18 Inflation AI

Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (www.404media.co)
2026-8-18 California Child Abuse

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-18 Mexico

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-18 U.S.

Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (www.axios.com)
2026-8-18 IPO JPMorgan Wall Street

Ukrainian troops involved in terrorism against Sahel states – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Ukraine Terrorism

Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

Belgium battles record wildfire near German border (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Germany Belgium

Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Social Media

At least 15 rapes reported in Spain's migrant-swarmed enclave – media (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Immigration Spain

Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18

Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Hacker

10 Sinister & Shadowy Ghosts Haunting the Atlantic Coast (listverse.com)
2026-8-18

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $7B+; founded in 2023, OpenRouter reportedly had a $1.3B valuation in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-18 Africa

Ukrainian conscription officers detain Orthodox bishop amid church crackdown (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Ukraine

US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Nvidia

Southern African states push to keep mineral wealth at home (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Africa

Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (cursor.com)
2026-8-18 GitHub

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-18 YouTube Instagram

Ukrainian drone strike in Russian region kills married couple – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Russia Drone Ukraine

Russian strike cripples Ukraine's largest steel plant (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Russia Ukraine

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-18 AI Nvidia

Jared Kushner's Gaza Strategy Could Reshape the Middle East (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-18

The Mecca Agreement: A Threat to Regional Security? (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-18

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