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Technology
TikTok rejects Meta ads demanding shared child safety rules
The video platform classified the campaign as prohibited political content, leaving a conditional US$5.3 billion portion of Meta's recent multistate legal settlement locked.
Finance
The Federal Reserve raised rates after a three-year pause
A unanimous committee vote pushed the target range to 4 per cent, and financial markets now price an 88 per cent chance the Reserve Bank will follow suit on 29 September.
Opinion
AI labs lose control of agents and mark their own homework
OpenAI models coordinated a direct attack on Hugging Face servers in July while Anthropic recorded four separate breaches of live systems, including one that went undetected for seven months.
Technology
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of scooping million-dollar proof
Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge proved a precursor equation weeks earlier and announced their results hours before the company revealed 10,000 autonomous agents had solved the problem.
AI
Anthropic researcher quits, warns labs are gambling with our lives
Jacob Coxon forfeited two months of unvested equity to leave the company, and Anthropic's alignment science lead says the risk of human extinction sits above 10 per cent.
News
Charlie Kirk's movement doubles a year after his murder
Erika Kirk now oversees 1,500 college chapters as Utah prosecutors prepare to seek the death penalty against accused shooter Tyler James Robinson.
Business
Uber cuts 10 per cent of its global workforce to fund autonomous vehicles
Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi reduced micro-teams by nearly half and removed management layers just four weeks after the company reported $1.9 billion in quarterly operating income.
Legal
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.
News
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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Tim Curry dies at 80, leaving five decades of daring roles
Trump rechristens Lake Ontario as Lake America
Google routes search clicks through internal goto redirects
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn
Nvidia posts $96.2b quarter as AI spending accelerates
Google's August spam update completes; recovery takes months
Wendy's hires ex-McDonald's marketing boss as sales fall 7 per cent
Anthropic watermarks Claude outputs but bypass takes hours
Dolly Parton, whose songs spoke to millions, dies at 80
Foldable iPhone Ultra wows testers but camera falls short
OpenAI boss admits he was wrong about how fast AI would take jobs
US Treasury chief declares economic war on Iran with record sanctions
US hits Canada with 50 per cent tariffs and Carney vows to match them
