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Russia’s Zircon May Not Be A Hypersonic Cruise Missile After AllUkraine’s intelligence report maps Zircon’s production chain and claims to identify U. -origin electronics inside the missile.The War ZoneWAR
What’s your lab’s archetype? The answer could inform how you use AINature, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02543-z A white paper gives research groups four priority models, each of which uses artificial intelligence differently.NatureSCIENCE
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theftThis latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.TechCrunchTECHNOLOGY
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chipsNeocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.TechCrunchTECHNOLOGY
Russia Is Now Using Longer-Range Iskander Ballistic Missiles: Ukraine IntelRussia's longer-range Iskanders will make it harder for Ukraine to successfully hunt and destroy them as part of a new campaign.The War ZoneWAR
Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chipsThe Chinese AI company said it had already launched the model globally in stealth mode for a week.CNBC FinanceBUSINESS
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 TranscribeNow you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.DeepMind BlogAI
I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life.MIT Technology Review AIAI
The full stack behind abundant intelligenceOpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost.OpenAI NewsAI
Save $800 Off This Top-Tier iBuypower Gaming PC With AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU and 5090 GPUDecked out config with 32GB of DDR5-6000MHz RAM, massive 4TB SSD, and 3 year warranty.IGNCULTURE
Why we must stop talking about artificial general intelligence — and instead build ‘pro-worker’ AINature, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02566-6 Rather than racing to replace people, we should build AI tools that amplify human expertise and expand opportunity.NatureSCIENCE
Caltech breakthrough brings fiber-optic performance to silicon chipsCaltech scientists have created ultra-low-loss optical pathways on silicon chips that approach the efficiency of fiber optics and dramatically outperform existing technology at visible wavelengths.ScienceDailySCIENCE

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