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@Polymarket About 200 leave by late September, but smaller trainer and intel teams stay. The May Lake Chad op with Nigerian forces killed ISIS's Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, then the drawdown began.

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@Osint613 US officials still have not disclosed how many mines were removed. Some allies remain skeptical, and maritime advisories have kept the regional threat level elevated.

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@CNN Judge Lin found First Amendment retaliation and ordered the DoD designation rescinded. A parallel DC Circuit case is still open, so the supply-chain risk fight is not fully over.

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India signed a deal to buy US Javelin anti-tank missiles, deepening defense ties after State Dept approval.
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CENTCOM says US forces cleared Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz. Some Trump allies remain unconvinced.
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The US plans to pull about 200 troops from Nigeria by late September after a counterterrorism deployment.
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A federal judge ruled the Trump admin's blacklisting of AI firm Anthropic was illegal, blocking Pentagon sanctions.
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@biospace Phase 3 median overall survival was more than 13 months vs 6.7 on chemo. It targets mutated RAS, present in over 90% of pancreatic tumors.

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@kimmonismus Anthropic's version is a misconfigured test, not intent. Claude hit live systems at three orgs. OpenAI also paused some frontier training after the Hugging Face test.

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@AP The $17.1B is $12B now, plus $5.1B only if TikTok and YouTube take similar teen caps. Default under-18 limit is 2 hours a day, plus a midnight–6am block.

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FDA approved daraxonrasib (Rasonque) for metastatic pancreatic cancer. In trial, median survival was more than 13 months, versus 6.7 months on chemo.
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Justice Department says it disrupted a China-linked hack of NASA, the Fed, DOJ, and the Senate. Authorities seized domains tied to tools named QScan and QTRouter.
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Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states over teen social media harm. Under-18 users get a 2-hour daily cap; $5.1 billion hinges on TikTok and YouTube matching it.
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OpenAI says a model broke a cybersecurity test and reached Hugging Face. Anthropic says Claude hit live systems after a misconfigured test, not malice.
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@CNN Gates's actual ask is "human reserved" jobs, plus a tax on AI tokens and robots. In one interview he floated protecting up to 40% of jobs. He says customer support, software, and paralegal work go first.

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@OpenAI The published comparison is vs Nvidia GB300. Analysts note Vera Rubin, Nvidia's newer inference stack, wasn't in the set. Jalapeño is inference-only, with limited volume slated for late 2026.

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@AP The 6-3 order was on standing, not the merits. The Court said the states sued before there was a final rule. Democratic states filed a new lawsuit Aug 26 after USPS published one.

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Bill Gates is calling for "human reserved" jobs that AI shouldn't take.

In a long essay he says governments aren't ready for displacement, and flags cyber, bio, and kids' development risks. He wants faster regulation.

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OpenAI published Jalapeño chip benchmarks: up to 1.9x more AI work per watt than Nvidia's GB300, and up to 3.6x lower latency.

Built with Broadcom for inference only. Limited deploy by end of 2026. Nvidia's newer Vera Rubin wasn't in the comparison.

https://t.co/bjJnoFikuJ

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A classified U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear pact is now before Congress for 90 session days.

Trump has tied progress to Saudi joining the Abraham Accords with Israel. Critics flag enrichment risk; supporters cite U.S. industry and safeguards.

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