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President Trump announced on Truth Social that he wants to create an "AI Force" led by an "AI czar," offering no timeline or structural details, even as cybersecurity experts warn that AI is amplifying threats to critical U.S. infrastructure.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng are set to meet Sunday at JPMorgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters to prepare potential agreements on AI, tariffs, and critical minerals ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
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Anthropic published three metrics Thursday — covering AI-led R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation — designed to help AI companies measure and report on how quickly they are developing, following CEO Dario Amodei's call for an industry slowdown.
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The FBI seized the domains of NightmareStresser, a long-running DDoS-for-hire platform with over 566,000 registered users, as part of Operation PowerOFF, an international effort to dismantle criminal distributed denial-of-service infrastructure.
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SK Hynix is in early talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips at Intel's Ohio facility for the first time, a move that would mark a major win for Intel's foundry business and support U.S. efforts to onshore semiconductor production.
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A proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI model development triggered broad declines in infrastructure and energy stocks Monday, raising fresh questions about the durability of the U.S. data center buildout.
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Apple released iOS 27 on Monday, bringing a redesigned Siri AI assistant in beta ahead of the iPhone 18's retail debut this week. The new Siri uses on-device language models and a cloud compute system, with English support launching first and several other languages to follow in October.
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A coalition of former EPA officials released a report identifying 30 federal deregulatory actions since January 2025 that they say increase health risks from AI data center pollution, citing research projecting up to 1,300 premature deaths and $20 billion in public health costs by 2028.
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RBC Capital Markets initiated Dell Technologies with an outperform rating and a $640 price target on Friday, sending shares up 12% and extending a year-to-date gain of nearly 350% driven by surging AI server demand.
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One pilot warned the Amazon Prime Air cargo plane was flying "too fast" over a minute before it overran a Miami runway and killed five people, the NTSB said, while the other pilot gave no clear verbal response to the caution.
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Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.2 million) to settle a UK lawsuit alleging it shared users' HIV status with advertisers, with payments due in two installments by March 2027.
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Economic think tank Verdant estimates AI data centers will create only about 10,400 permanent jobs in the U.K. by 2035 — roughly a quarter of the 40,200 roles projected by tech trade association techUK — citing the greater automation of newer, larger facilities.
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party won 44.5% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt's state election on Sunday, according to exit polls, but its path to forming a government remained uncertain amid a mainstream firewall against coalition talks with the party.
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Walmart announced a delivery partnership with Dunkin' through its new Walmart Restaurant Delivery service, expanding a program that began with Subway and putting the retailer in direct competition with DoorDash and Uber Eats.
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Anthropic's planned IPO, which could value the company at up to $2 trillion, is forcing close examination of its Long-Term Benefit Trust — a small group of external trustees that controls the majority of its board and has yet to face a true test of its authority.
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The White House has vetted candidates for four open CFTC commissioner seats, sources say, but whether nominations will move forward remains unclear as a key Senate vote on the Clarity Act crypto bill approaches on September 15.
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Meta's $18 billion social media lawsuit settlement has lifted a legal overhang that Morgan Stanley analysts say could accelerate a wave of AI product launches, even as Needham warns of mounting cost pressures and strategic overextension.
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Howmet Aerospace tumbled nearly 8% after SpaceX said it plans to manufacture its own industrial gas turbine castings, but analysts at Citigroup and Bernstein urged investors to buy the dip, citing Howmet's dominant market share and long-term customer agreements.
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