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China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy (www.scmp.com)
2026-9-21 China AI

Australia's multiculturalism is a precious achievement (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-21 Australia

A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (www.prinzai.com)
2026-9-21 Germany

North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21 Korea

A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down (www.politico.com)
2026-9-21

Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-21 China Startup Drone

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (fintech.global)
2026-9-21 Hong Kong IPO

Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21 AI

Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-21

From Phoenicians to Franco: Why are these African cities Spanish at all? (www.rt.com)
2026-9-21 Spain Africa

Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (www.wsj.com)
2026-9-21 China Startup AI Job Market

Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21 Google AI

Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-9-21

Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit (www.ft.com)
2026-9-21 Trump China AI

Don't just secure critical minerals supply. Look for substitutes. (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-21

UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others (www.theguardian.com)
2026-9-21

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-9-21 China AI

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (qwen.ai)
2026-9-21 Alibaba

Zelensky's endgame, Houthi dominance, German decline: RT stories that shaped the week (www.rt.com)
2026-9-21 Germany

Not only robots: warfare will still need humans (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-21 Robot

Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-21

Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-21 AI

How to build a starship – and why we should start thinking about it now (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

A 400-Year-Old Shark Helps Reveal the Secrets of Long Life (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

Five food mistakes to avoid if you're trying to lose weight (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

What Caused ʻOumuamua's Mysterious Non-Gravitational Acceleration? - We may finally have the answer (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

Amazing Discovery: A Small World Beyond Neptune Seems to Have an Atmosphere, Puzzling Astronomers (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

How does your body lose weight? An obesity doctor explains why one size doesn't fit all in weight loss (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

Could Ultra-Processed Foods Be Affecting Your Focus? (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-9-21

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