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United States government backs OpenAI against New York Times over copyright fair use
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United States government backs OpenAI against New York Times over copyright fair use

The department filed a 20-page statement on September 1 framing the practice as national policy, two months after Attorney-General Michelle Rowland ruled out a text and data mining exception.
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Holdout juror prompts mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after blocking acquittal
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Holdout juror prompts mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after blocking acquittal

The Massachusetts panel deadlocked 11 to 1 after 38 hours of deliberations, and prosecutors have until a 29 September status conference to decide on a retrial.
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Nobody wears pink for a father who murders his children
Opinion

Nobody wears pink for a father who murders his children

Her own lawyers concede Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. Four hundred people stood outside her trial in pink. Try to picture that crowd for a father.
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Roberts allows White House ballroom construction to resume
Legal

Roberts allows White House ballroom construction to resume

Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a preliminary injunction on 21 August 2026, allowing above-ground construction of a 90,000-square-foot State Ballroom at the White House East Wing to proceed pending further order of the Supreme Court.
4 min read 6 days ago
Dolly Parton buried privately as her estate unveils Dollyfest
Culture

Dolly Parton buried privately as her estate unveils Dollyfest

Dolly Parton was laid to rest in a private ceremony at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, beside her husband Carl Dean, on 31 August 2026. The estate kept the service closed, then released the announcement the public had been waiting for.
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Jury takes three hours to convict Keffe D of Tupac's murder
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Jury takes three hours to convict Keffe D of Tupac's murder

A Clark County District Court jury found Duane Keith Davis guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon and intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang on 31 August 2026.
5 min read 7 days ago
Inside the operation that found 163 missing children
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Inside the operation that found 163 missing children

Operation Statewide Shield, Florida's first state-led statewide child-recovery initiative, located 163 missing children aged 2 months to 17 over five days. Recoveries spanned six US states, one territory and 12 countries, secure recovery hubs met every child with medical and behavioural care, and th
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Sony and Warner want Claude's maker to pay for the songs it learned from
Legal

Sony and Warner want Claude's maker to pay for the songs it learned from

Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC and Warner Chappell Music filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 28 August 2026, naming Anthropic PBC, chief executive Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants. Case No.
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The US just struck Iran again to stop it mining the world's oil route
Geopolitics

The US just struck Iran again to stop it mining the world's oil route

"Earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island," Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, the US Central Command spokesperson, said in a statement released on 30 August.
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Tim Curry dies at 80, leaving five decades of daring roles

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Trump rechristens Lake Ontario as Lake America

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Google routes search clicks through internal goto redirects

5 min read11 days ago

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn

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Nvidia posts $96.2b quarter as AI spending accelerates

5 min read12 days ago

Google's August spam update completes; recovery takes months

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Wendy's hires ex-McDonald's marketing boss as sales fall 7 per cent

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Anthropic watermarks Claude outputs but bypass takes hours

5 min read12 days ago

Dolly Parton, whose songs spoke to millions, dies at 80

10 min read13 days ago

Foldable iPhone Ultra wows testers but camera falls short

2 min read13 days ago

OpenAI boss admits he was wrong about how fast AI would take jobs

6 min read14 days ago

US Treasury chief declares economic war on Iran with record sanctions

7 min read14 days ago

US hits Canada with 50 per cent tariffs and Carney vows to match them

7 min read15 days ago

Nvidia faces a $91 billion earnings test this week

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MIT researchers find AI images cannot be traced back to any single artist

7 min read18 days ago

Australia is being told to choose between the US and China on AI

7 min read18 days ago

US national debt passes $40 trillion after doubling under Trump and Biden

7 min read19 days ago

Stripe pays more than $7 billion for a three-year-old AI startup

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Goldman Sachs says AI is already cutting 16,000 US jobs a month

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OpenAI locks teenagers into a restricted ChatGPT after lawsuits

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Nobel laureate's startup builds the first virtual human cell

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