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Europe’s drought is shutting down nuclear reactors

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Nuclear reactors need water. They sit beside rivers and coastlines for a reason. The water carries heat away from the core. When it runs low or runs warm, the reactor has to power down. That is happening across Europe right now. On Thursday, Romania’s state-owned Nuclearelectrica began disconnecting the country’s sole operating reactor, CNBC reported. […]

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A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’

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Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A memo drafted inside the US Defense Department on 4 August did something different. It named the supplier first. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg directed […]

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President Donald Trump signs memo letting US agencies hack transnational crime groups abroad

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President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes aim at foreign criminal groups […]

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Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

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Tesla is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles whose low beams exceed the federal photometric limit, after NHTSA rejected its argument that the defect was inconsequential. Tesla says a remedy is still under development, and owners are due to be notified by September 15. Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars because their headlights are […]

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China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

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Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and customers are paying part of […]

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French media ask the competition watchdog to make Google pay for its AI answers

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French media have asked the country’s competition authority to rein in Google’s use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over […]

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Anthropic starts marking all of Claude’s output worldwide as EU transparency rules take effect

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Anthropic has begun attaching machine-readable marks to the text and images that its Claude models generate, and will apply them to users worldwide rather than only in Europe, after signing a European Union code of practice tied to new transparency rules that took effect on 2 August 2026. The company confirmed in a support document that it […]

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Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

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Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new first-time buyer rebate in five days. The MyFirstEV scheme opened this month, and Tesla started […]

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House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents

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US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies’ own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, […]

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House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

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The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness chair. Casar chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His letter does not open […]

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