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Australia must not be distracted as China ramps up in the South China Sea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2 days ago China Australia South China Sea

To Lam comes to Australia, wanting to keep Vietnam's options open (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2 days ago Australia Vietnam

Germany logs record rise in UFO sightings – watchdog (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Germany

South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B chip fund for promising materials, parts, equipment, and fabless companies, and speed the development of domestic chip hubs (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Korea

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage kicks off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago China AI Apple

Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor, a lender that aims to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank, is in advanced talks to raise ~$1.5B at an $8B valuation (www.ft.com)
2 days ago

As AI salaries intensify competition in San Francisco's rental market, CoStar says average asking rent is up 18% in under two years to $3,728/month, passing NYC (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago AI San Francisco

Iran makes new Hormuz demands as missile hits Emirati ship (www.rt.com)
2 days ago Iran

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)
2 days ago

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)
2 days 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)
2 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (www.meta.com)
2 days 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)
2 days ago

Islamic State-linked militants stage deadly attack in DR Congo (www.rt.com)
2 days 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)
2 days 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)
2 days ago London

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

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

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