Companies continue slashing jobs as economic pressures intensify and business conditions weaken.
Category: 25 August 2026
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WHY CHINESE ARE FAR MORE UPBEAT ABOUT AI THAN AMERICANS
In an international Stanford University study, 84 percent of Chinese respondents said they are excited about AI, the largest proportion of any country in the poll. In contrast, only 38 percent of Americans felt that way.
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GAZA/LEBANON DEATH TOLL
Israel killed about 73,431 Palestinians and injured another 174,437 since the genocidal war started in October 2023.
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RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW ATTACKS ON KYIV AS ZELENSKY SAYS NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ELECTIONS
Russia launched new large-scale strikes on Kyiv last week in response to Ukraine’s recent drone attacks on energy infrastructure deep inside the country in hopes of jeopardizing its wartime economy.
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LIGHT-POWERED “MICRODRONES” HUNT AND CAPTURE BACTERIA
At Germany’s University of Würzburg, researchers have built robots 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair that navigate through liquid, grab bacteria, transport them, and deposit them in a specified location.
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OPENAI CREATES TEEN VERSION OF CHATGPT
OpenAI will mandate teenagers to use a new version of ChatGPT that, the company says, has better mental health safeguards and guides adolescents to educational apps.
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BEIJING ALLOWS NVIDIA’S CHIPS BACK INTO CHINA
As the race to dominate AI intensifies, China’s government is allowing small shipments of Nvidia’s workhorse H200 chip back into the country.
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VON DER LEYEN RAMPING UP UKRAINE WAR
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, warned last week of an “escalating campaign of threats” and hybrid warfare after Romania announced that it destroyed a naval drone as it approached a gas platform in the Black Sea.
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AI DESIGNS CHIP COMPONENTS “BEYOND HUMAN INTUITION”
An AI at Germany’s Max Planck Institute has designed tiny chip components using photonic microchips which manipulate data with light rather than electricity.