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Thursday resolved on two fronts — a federal judge ruled the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic illegal and retaliatory, while Nvidia and Salesforce's blowout earnings kept validating the AI trade into Friday's Jackson Hole test — even as Trump made good on his threat to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Nepal's flood toll settled at 469 with scientists tracing it to a collapsed glacier, and Iran's sanctions squeeze tipped into food-price panic that Washington is betting will outlast Tehran's patience.

Wire · United States

National Desk

Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

AP

An autopsy report obtained by the AP found that Tyrin Johnson, a 20-year-old fatally shot by National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis, took a single bullet through the right side of his back — directly contradicting police accounts that said he was facing troops when they opened fire. The finding raises new questions about the deployment of federal Guard units to domestic policing roles.

FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines for dominant XFG variant

Guardian

The FDA cleared updated Moderna, Novavax-Sanofi and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccines targeting the dominant XFG variant, allowing shipments to pharmacies to begin ahead of the 2026-27 season. Approval is limited to people 65 and older and younger patients with qualifying underlying conditions, with the Trump administration's broader vaccination recommendations for the season still unresolved.

US, South Korea and Japan to hold trilateral drill as North Korea ramps up pressure on US

AP

Seoul confirmed the Freedom Edge trilateral exercise will proceed off Jeju Island starting September 7, a day after North Korea vowed retaliation against what it called U.S. hostilities — further dimming prospects for renewed U.S.-North Korea diplomacy despite Trump's recent decision to scale back a separate bilateral drill as a goodwill gesture.

Wire · World

Foreign Desk

Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say

BBC

Scientists told the BBC that preliminary investigations point to a collapsed glacier near Nepal's Langtang Lirung peak — not an earthquake, as initially believed — as the trigger for the flash flood that has killed at least 469 people. The US Geological Survey said the ice-and-rock avalanche was powerful enough to register a magnitude 5.2 signal as it slammed into a valley and sent debris down the Lende Khola tributary.

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

BBC

Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, following through on threats made amid the collapse of US-Canada trade talks and new 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canadian PM Mark Carney rejected the move, noting the lake's 400-year-old name predates both the US and Canada, and Canada is set to implement retaliatory tariffs next month.

Bronze Age treasure of Villena stolen from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

Guardian

Thieves raided Spain's Villena Museum in a four-minute operation described by officials as "super-fast and super-professional," making off with most of the Treasure of Villena, a collection of 66 gold Bronze Age artifacts considered Europe's most important prehistoric trove. The museum's mayor called the loss devastating to the town's heritage.

Iran braces for unrest amid economic crisis

Semafor

The US sanctions campaign is squeezing ordinary Iranians hard — inflation hit 66% in July with food prices up 128% year-on-year — triggering panic buying and small labor demonstrations this week, though analysts say the pressure is unlikely to move Iran's leadership to end the war. Iranian officials are watching nervously for signs the grievances could reignite the mass protests that have periodically swept the country in recent years.

Wire · Beats

Markets, Science & Tech

Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk

CNBC

US District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was unlawful, finding the Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by retaliating against the company "based on a desire to make a public example" of its criticism of the Department of War's AI policies. Anthropic called the ruling a vindication of its right to speak out against government AI practices it disagrees with.

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Ars Technica

Anthropic unveiled the Model Hardware Standard, a set of common drivers letting AI agents interface directly with lab equipment and other physical devices without bespoke software translators — a research preview inspired by watching a neuroscientist manually wire together a memory-formation experiment. The company says the plan is to eventually open-source the standard once more safety evaluations for physical-world AI control are in place.

Jim Cramer says Nvidia and Salesforce earnings upended two bear narratives

CNBC

Cramer said Wednesday's earnings from Nvidia and Salesforce, which surged 8% and 22% respectively, dismantled two of Wall Street's biggest bear cases at once — that AI chip demand was cooling and that AI would make traditional enterprise software obsolete. He called the results proof that "a lot of wrongs were rectified" after months of skeptical narratives around both stocks.

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh delivers his key Jackson Hole speech Friday. Here's what to expect

CNBC

Markets head into Friday's Jackson Hole symposium trying to gauge how far Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh will go in signaling conditions for a rate move, at an event themed around "Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments." Warsh's public remarks have been sparse enough that even seasoned Fed-watchers say his tone is a genuine unknown heading into the speech.

Wire · Hacker News

From the Front Page

Microduck

▲ 548· 190 comments ·pollen-robotics.com

A 25-centimeter open-source reinforcement-learning robot aims to make hands-on robotics research as cheap and accessible as a Raspberry Pi.

Small Models Have Arrived

▲ 519· 237 comments ·calv.info

The case that small, cheap, locally-runnable models have quietly gotten good enough to replace frontier APIs for most everyday tasks.

507 Mechanical Movements

▲ 508· 69 comments ·507movements.com

A 19th-century catalog of every mechanical linkage imaginable, rediscovered by engineers who grew up on CAD and never saw pure kinematics done this elegantly.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

▲ 202· 148 comments ·blog.google

Google shipped a faster, cheaper multimodal Gemini variant built specifically for real-time voice and video apps.

Dispatches · X/Twitter

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Anthropic @AnthropicAI
Watch the story of how the Model Hardware Standard began as part of our collaboration with @hhmi_science
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dax @thdxr
if you want to rent a thousand GPUs: 1. find provider 2. sign 3 year commit 3. put $40M down 4. they go to bank and say look a real customer 5. bank lends them money 12% interest 6. nvidia gets it 7. GPUs deployed to you in 2-3 months is the shortage GPUs or is it money
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OpenCode @opencode
first full day of GLM being paid and deepseek immediately took back the throne muse spark is a sleeper hit, right on its tail
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dax @thdxr
LLMs made bot replies worse and also human replies worse i spend every day working in a niche field and i post simple facts i'm learning and hundreds of people want to argue with me with ai powered confidence
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Mario Zechner @badlogicgames
RT @Thom_Wolf: We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm…
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