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The Arab-Islamic Formula for 'Peace': Ignore Hamas, Blame Israel (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-11 Israel Arabia Islam

As Waymo expands its fleet from 700 in 2025 to nearly 4,000 now, recalls and edge-case failures like flooded roadways and a San Francisco power outage mount (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 San Francisco

Russian drones strike Ukrainian troops at key Donbass stronghold (GRAPHIC VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-11 Russia Drone Ukraine

Top US streamer banned over ‘just shoot kids' comment (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-11

AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like “log in and complete my quiz”; major chatbots did not refuse prompts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 AI chatbot

Kazakhstan reroutes oil exports after Ukrainian strikes (www.rt.com)
2026-8-10 Ukraine

Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34% (www.trendforce.com)
2026-8-10 iPhone

Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as September, and is negotiating with TSMC to make 300K+ in 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-10 Microsoft AI

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Apple

Anthropic, Macquarie, and Singapore's GIC form Theseus Infrastructure to develop AI computing sites; Anthropic will cover consumer electricity price hikes (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 AI Singapore

New US tariffs unlikely to deter India from buying Russian oil – media (www.rt.com)
2026-8-10 Russia India

Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 California

Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes like “maintaining a strong balance sheet”; INTC falls 3%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 Intel

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-10 Google

Northern Australia needs systems thinking, not more standalone projects (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-10 Australia

Australia must not be distracted as China ramps up in the South China Sea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-10 China Australia South China Sea

To Lam comes to Australia, wanting to keep Vietnam's options open (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-10 Australia Vietnam

Germany logs record rise in UFO sightings – watchdog (www.rt.com)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10

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)
2026-8-10 AI San Francisco

Iran makes new Hormuz demands as missile hits Emirati ship (www.rt.com)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10

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)
2026-8-10

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)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10

Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (www.meta.com)
2026-8-10 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)
2026-8-10

Islamic State-linked militants stage deadly attack in DR Congo (www.rt.com)
2026-8-10 Islam

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