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UK will ‘pay the price' for giving Kiev drones to attack Russia – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Russia U.K. Drone

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Facial Recognition

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-18 Android IOS AI Reddit

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 Alibaba AI Alipay

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18 Startup AI

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (www.newscientist.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Europe Solar

Could Putin really fire long-range drones into Nato territory? Experts warn dictator 'clearly' has the means - but alliance response would overwhelm Russian military (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-18 Russia Putin Drone

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch (www.politico.com)
2026-8-18 AI

China Aims to Spoil the AI Party (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-18 China AI

How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-18 Drone

Wearable sensors and AI could monitor blood pressure in ICU (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-8-18 AI

David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas (x.com)
2026-8-18 AI

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

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: 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

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

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

Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 AI

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (www.404media.co)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI Vegas

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-18 Robot ETH

Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 Uber Drone

Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Trump China Hong Kong AI

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses (blog.gregbrockman.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Own a learning bundle that connects AI & Six Sigma for just $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (fortune.com)
2026-8-17 Startup AI

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