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Iran makes new Hormuz demands as missile hits Emirati ship (www.rt.com)
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Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to “financialize everything”, sports betting, Kalshi's “philosophical misalignment” with Polymarket, and more (www.nytimes.com)
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The UK's Report Remove service receives 420 reports from under-18s of explicit images digitally faked or manipulated to depict them in H1, exceeding 2025's 397 (www.theguardian.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg criticizes “closed” AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a “discourse ... so filled with doom”, and defends distillation as a principle (www.ft.com)
1 day ago AI Zuckerberg

Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is “small enough” to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (www.meta.com)
1 day ago AI Zuckerberg

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks (www.wsj.com)
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Islamic State-linked militants stage deadly attack in DR Congo (www.rt.com)
1 day ago Islam

Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago China Robot

Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (www.ft.com)
1 day ago London

Polish president's rant about killing Russians driven by ‘impotent rage' – Moscow (www.rt.com)
1 day ago Poland

Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting (www.scmp.com)
1 day ago China AI Nvidia

Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (techcrunch.com)
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How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? (yro.slashdot.org)
2 days ago AI

If Iran War lasts into 2027, Europe could suffer Cold, Hungry Winter (www.juancole.com)
2 days ago Europe Iran

Netanyahu's Election Bid may Worsen Israel's International Isolation (www.juancole.com)
2 days ago Israel Netanyahu

Israeli Plan for Crocodile Moat around Palestinian Prisoners Blocked as cruel to Crocodiles (www.juancole.com)
2 days ago Israel

Ukrainian drone explodes near critical gas pipeline in Bulgaria – Sofia (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Drone Ukraine

A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total (www.wired.com)
2 days ago AI

Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago AI

How Amex-owned Resy and Chase-partnered OpenTable reservation apps became assets in the card wars, wiring the best restaurant tables into premium card perks (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Asset

China to launch regular shipping to Europe via Russia's Northern Sea Route – Rosatom (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Russia China Europe

12 killed in Ukrainian drone raid on Russia's Tatarstan (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Russia Drone Ukraine

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI London

Ukraine too corrupt to join the EU – diplomat to FT (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Europe Ukraine

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines (tech.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft

Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago China AI

Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2 days ago China Drone

Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
2 days ago Japan Sony Sensor

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (www.semafor.com)
2 days ago Spotify

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