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Video gamers are taking action for climate through in-game activations: Sam Barratt, Chief, Youth, Education and Advocacy, UNEP (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-2 Climate Education

Three people killed in Ukrainian drone raids across Russia – officials (www.rt.com)
2025-8-2 Russia Drone Ukraine

CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-2 IPO

Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-2 Trump

Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 months (x.com)
2025-8-2 Microsoft

Signatories to the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, while Chinese AI companies remain absent (www.euractiv.com)
2025-8-2 China Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks (venturebeat.com)
2025-8-2 AI

Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-2

Russia guarantees Belarusian security – Lukashenko (www.rt.com)
2025-8-2 Russia

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2

Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy (www.anthropic.com)
2025-8-2 AI

Peak Energy Ships America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2 U.S. Energy Battery

Aurora's Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Driving At Night (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (variety.com)
2025-8-2 Trump Bitcoin

Skipping Over-The-Air Car Updates Could Be Costly (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2

Ukraine demonstrating ‘borderline savagery' – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2025-8-2 Ukraine

Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second (www.cerebras.ai)
2025-8-2

A Luggage Service's Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build “real-world” apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (fortune.com)
2025-8-2 Blockchain

Our US alliance is essential—yet we must also be more self-reliant (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-8-2

Palantir Lands $10 Billion Army Software and Data Contract (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2

A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo (www.courthousenews.com)
2025-8-2 California

Atlassian Terminates 150 Staff With Pre-Recorded Video (slashdot.org)
2025-8-2 Atlassian

Slowing Supply of Immigrant Labor & Slowing Job Growth Keep the Job Market “in Balance” and the Unemployment Rate Low, Push Up Wages. Powell Talked about It (wolfstreet.com)
2025-8-2 Immigration Unemployment

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's (www.wired.com)
2025-8-2

Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations (slashdot.org)
2025-8-2 Amazon

India To Penalize Universities With Too Many Retractions (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-2 India

OpenAI may be testing a cheaper paid plan for ChatGPT (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-2

Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is “ours to grab”, Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-2 iPhone AI Apple Tim Cook

Sources: Mistral is in discussions, including with Abu Dhabi's MGX, to raise $1B at a valuation of about $10B, up from its previous valuation of €5.8B (www.ft.com)
2025-8-2

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