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Donald Trump's Artifishy Intelligence (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-27 Trump Intelligence

“The Ball no Question Makes:” FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:50 (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-27

War and Climate Breakdown: We owe Children More (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-27 Climate

Ukrainian basketball player quits US college team after Russian joins (www.rt.com)
2026-8-27 Russia Ukraine

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (www.seroundtable.com)
2026-8-27 Google AI

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-27 India AI

Building on the Jakarta Treaty, Australia and Indonesia deepen cooperation (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-27 Australia Indonesia

Less than meets the eye: Britain, France let Ukraine make Storm Shadows (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-27 France U.K. Ukraine

Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (www.techdirt.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 China AI Singapore Nvidia Logistics

Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (www.platformer.news)
2026-8-27

Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia Equity

Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-27

Western media demands answers from Israel for killing journalists in Gaza (www.rt.com)
2026-8-27 Israel

Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27 AI Bill Gates

Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (thenewstack.io)
2026-8-27 Browser

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft Startup

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Israeli MP's sledgehammer stunt leaves West Bank village on edge (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-27 Israel

METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (metr.org)
2026-8-27

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-27 Robot

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Google

In applying AI to military decision-making, the IP4 should learn from NATO (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-27 AI

Inflation Refuses to Go Back into the Bottle: Fed-Favored PCE Price Index (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-27 Inflation

How Americans Spent their Trillions of Inflation-Adjusted Dollars on Goods & Services and How that Changed since 2015 (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-27 U.S. Inflation

Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-27

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft Nvidia

With many Taiwanese embassies closed, China shifts target to representative offices (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-27 China Taiwan

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