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Extreme heat linked to 33 diagnoses that go beyond dehydration, heat stroke (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-8-28

Nepal floods leave hundreds dead, thousands missing: As it happened (www.rt.com)
2026-8-28 Nepal

Quarterly Update on the Ugly Fiscal Condition of the US in Q2 2026 (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-28

Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 Asset

Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 KPMG

Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28

A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Pentagon

Ukraine races to prepare for Winter (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-28 Ukraine

CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28

Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28

The world needs to take the AI bull by the horns – and fast (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-28 AI

Inflation Exacts its Pound of Flesh: How Americans Earned their Income from All Sources except Capital Gains (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-28 U.S. Inflation British Pound

Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+ (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-28

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Uber AI Budget

AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Android AI

Iranians ‘shopping with a smile' despite US sanctions – RT reports from Tehran (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-28 Iran Tehran

America's New Scam?: Hamas Elections by Another Name is Still Hamas (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-28 U.S.

Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 YouTube

Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28 AI

OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent (features.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Startup AI

Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 Trump

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (www.ft.com)
2026-8-28 Google Alphabet

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-28 AI

Rickards: The Dollar's Not Dying (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-28

Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-28 Google Intelligence

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

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