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Corruption: Big Oil Buys Congress Lawmakers (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-17

Trump reinvents the Portuguese Empire with Plan to make Hormuz US Territory (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-17 Trump

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Alphabet

An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong IPO Singapore

Mangione pleads guilty to stalking charges, admits shooting CEO (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-17 China Startup AI

Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Amazon

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Ford

Prices of Mid-Tier Homes in 33 Big Expensive Cities in America: July 2026 Update (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-17 U.S.

A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Linux

Support for Germany's ruling bloc falls to five-year low – poll (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Germany

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (simonwillison.net)
2026-8-17

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Intel Startup AI Goldman

Ukrainian missile strike kills six in Russian border region – officials (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Russia Ukraine

Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal “arbitrary” (cointelegraph.com)
2026-8-17

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (daringfireball.net)
2026-8-17

Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes (slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

‘No longer small dreams': Modi's message to India on Independence Day (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 India

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong AI Singapore

One dead, four wounded in downtown Lexington shooting (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Linux

SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 Mathematics

Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 China

Musk's $100 mn gamble helps mend rift with Trump – WSJ (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Trump

Russian retribution, Islamic NATO, showdown in the West Bank, the German spy machine: RT stories that shaped the week (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Russia Germany Islam

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