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Samsung and SK Hynix split on what comes after HBM
At Hot Chips, the memory leader showed cooler, taller HBM stacks while its challenger bet on processing-in-memory — two rational strategies pointed at the same wall.
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Why AI Hallucinates: How to Spot and Prevent Confident AI Errors
AI hallucination is structural, not a passing bug. Here is why models invent facts, where errors concentrate, and the checks that reliably…
Middle East, Technology and Science Briefing: War and Sanctions Squeeze Iran’s Economy, and 6 More Stories From 29 August 2026
7 developments from the Middle East, technology and science on 29 August 2026, including war and sanctions squeeze iran’s economy.
Africa Briefing: MSF Opens New Ebola Treatment Centre in Eastern Congo, and 7 More Stories From 29 August 2026
8 developments from Africa on 29 August 2026, including msf opens new ebola treatment centre in eastern congo.
AI Regulation Explained: How the World Is Governing Artificial Intelligence
A clear guide to how AI is being regulated worldwide, from the EU risk-based model to sectoral enforcement, and what organisations need to…
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OpenAI's trillion-dollar listing drifts toward 2027
The company filed confidentially in June and is reported to target a valuation above $1 trillion, but its CFO now describes a 2027 debut — a delay that says more about the private…
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Anthropic's connector protocol passes 400 million monthly downloads
MCP's SDK downloads have roughly quadrupled in a year, and its latest specification rebuilds the core as stateless — the unglamorous change that says agents have moved from demos…
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Schools open the year with graded rules for AI
Districts are converging on tiered access — no open chatbots for young children, supervised use in middle school, authorised use above — while most students already use the tools…
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Clay's valuation reaches $7bn as Wellington leads new round
The sales-automation company is reported to be raising at a $7 billion pre-money valuation — its third repricing in about thirteen months, and a window into how private AI markets…
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Alibaba ships a preview of the Qwen4 architecture
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model — 125 billion parameters, around six billion active — released early so the tooling ecosystem is ready before the…
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John Ternus takes over as Apple's chief executive
Tim Cook stepped down after fifteen years, handing Apple to its hardware engineering chief with AI named as the priority — a succession that trades an operator for a builder at an…
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Pentagon adds ChatGPT and Grok to its GenAI.mil portal
OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield's Grok for Government joined Google's Gemini on the defence department's AI portal — while the one lab that demanded usage red lines is being…
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Stanford update widens the AI gap for entry-level workers
The revised 'Canaries' paper puts employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations about 19% below trend, up from 15% — and finds the loss runs through hiring that…
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US drafts rule to close China's remote access to AI chips
Commerce is reported to be preparing controls on overseas data centres renting compute to Chinese firms — a gap that exists because export law regulates goods, while compute is…
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AI data centre anger is becoming an electoral problem
Polling puts opposition to a local AI data centre near 70%, and the objection has moved from abstract unease to the utility bill — a shift that makes it durable, and makes cost…
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Texas pauses state funding for Flock's AI camera network
Governor Abbott ordered agencies to stop funding AI-powered licence plate readers as a Texas Tribune investigation landed — though most of the money behind the 3,200-camera…
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Chatbots resisted state propaganda better than AI search summaries
An NPR experiment with NewsGuard found leading chatbots mostly rejected false narratives from Russia, China and Iran, while the AI summaries atop search results did worse — a gap…
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EU AI Office sends first information requests to model providers
Regulators asked general-purpose model providers to document security, external evaluations and post-market monitoring — the first concrete test of whether the AI Act's…
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Anthropic says infostealer malware is draining Claude accounts
Commodity malware on users' own machines is lifting authenticated Claude sessions and burning paid usage — a theft that sidesteps two-factor authentication entirely, because the…
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DeepSeek nears $7.4bn raise at a $74bn valuation
The Chinese lab is reported to be closing a fresh round at roughly 500 billion yuan pre-money, ahead of a possible Shanghai listing — on revenue that reporting puts near $500…
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Middle East, Technology and Science Briefing: Tencent Releases Open-Source AI for Coding and Research, and 6 More Stories From 29 August 2026
7 developments from the Middle East, technology and science on 29 August 2026, including tencent releases open-source ai for coding and research.
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Middle East, Technology and Science Briefing: War and Sanctions Squeeze Iran’s Economy, and 6 More Stories From 29 August 2026
7 developments from the Middle East, technology and science on 29 August 2026, including war and sanctions squeeze iran’s economy.
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United States Briefing: Washington Marchers Warn of Civil-Rights Rollbacks, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from the United States on 29 August 2026, including washington marchers warn of civil-rights rollbacks.
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Africa Briefing: MSF Opens New Ebola Treatment Centre in Eastern Congo, and 7 More Stories From 29 August 2026
8 developments from Africa on 29 August 2026, including msf opens new ebola treatment centre in eastern congo.
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Africa Briefing: Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba Dies at 34, and 7 More Stories From 29 August 2026
8 developments from Africa on 29 August 2026, including uganda’s king oyo nyimba dies at 34.
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Americas Briefing: Brazil’s July Job Creation Misses Expectations, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from the Americas on 29 August 2026, including brazil’s july job creation misses expectations.
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Americas Briefing: Haiti Takes Back Nearly 200,000 Deportees Amid Gang Terror, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from the Americas on 29 August 2026, including haiti takes back nearly 200,000 deportees amid gang terror.
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Asia-Pacific Briefing: Cambodia Says Scam Compounds Are Gone—Experts Doubt It, and 9 More Stories From 29 August 2026
10 developments from the Asia-Pacific on 29 August 2026, including cambodia says scam compounds are gone—experts doubt it.
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