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Empty seats in a Geneva conference room facing a UN flag, with documents left on tables suggesting an abandoned negotiation.

US, Russia strip human review from UN AI weapons treaty

100+ children died in Minab after an AI strike. Now, in Geneva, the US and Russia deleted the human-review, predictability, and reliability requirements from the draft treaty on autonomous weapons — leaving "check and fire" as just "fire." One person now oversees the machine for the

US Capitol dome in shadow beside documents labeled rescission, conveying the executive-legislative funding clash.

Trump's pocket rescission sparks spending power battle

Federal courthouse steps with a gavel resting on documents, representing the court ruling on Anthropic's defense contract dispute.

Court Upholds Pentagon's Ban on Anthropic's Claude

South Korea National Assembly building at sunrise with gavel in foreground, symbolizing pending antitrust legislation

Korea Proposes Ejecting Repeat Cartelists From 17 Sectors

Airbus A321neo jet on tarmac with wingline and lower fuselage visible, before production-line rework.

Airbus confirms corrosion defect across roughly 500 A321neos

Technology

A self-driving robotaxi driving through a sunny urban street with dense traffic and pedestrians.

Waymo's 95% Safety Claim Faces a Quiet Statistical Catch

Prolink Router: Ten Ways to Get Root, Zero Authentication Required

Business

Candlestick chart of QNT token surging upward with a red warning overlay

Quant's QNT Token Soars ~300% on Clearing House Pick

QNT jumped from $64 to a $371 peak before settling near $260 — a ~300% swing in 4 days 📈 The catalyst: The Clearing House picked London-based Quant for its On-Chain Money Initiative, a tokenized deposit network covering 25 U.S. banks, launching H1 2027. The same day, UK banks

Illustration of a U.S. dollar bank chain linking Tether's stablecoin to offshore payment processing, with a forfeiture seal.

A Stablecoin's Hidden Banking Spine Faces a Forfeiture Test

Glasgow City Council workers in high-visibility vests gather outside municipal buildings amid a pay restructuring dispute.

23,000 Glasgow workers face dismiss-and-rehire in £11,500 pay shake-up

Walt Disney World corporate offices with an abstract holographic AI interface overlaid above the buildings.

Disney cuts ~1,000 legal roles as new CTO rebuilds workflows around AI

BlackBerry earnings report chart showing a 7% stock dip next to rising QNX automotive revenue figures.

BlackBerry posts record QNX quarter but stock slips 7%

Chart showing PB Fintech's share price dropping sharply after IRDAI's insurance commission proposal.

IRDAI's commission caps just realigned who gets paid to sell insurance in India

Graphic of a paused merger path between two company logos with a stablecoin token icon crossing into a Hong Kong exchange, set against a financial data background.

Animoca & Currenc suspend Nasdaq reverse merger over audits

Logistics

Airbus A321neo jet on tarmac with wingline and lower fuselage visible, before production-line rework.

Airbus confirms corrosion defect across roughly 500 A321neos

~500 A321neos — 250 already flying, incl. at Delta — have a fuselage stringer corrosion defect 🔧 Airbus calls it a quality issue, not a safety issue. Its shares slipped 0.33% in Paris. But EASA's July A380 wing order proves regulators act on their own schedule. If an airworthiness directive

Airliner parked at a tarmac beneath an ash plume rising from a snow-flecked volcanic peak in Sicily

Etna Shuts Catania Airport, Cuts Landings From 12 to 4

A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on a tarmac with maintenance crews inspecting its underside and flight control surfaces.

FAA Probing 737 MAX software flaw as Boeing delays operator notice by nearly two years

Aerial view of a residential district with rescue workers and smoke rising from aircraft wreckage near Kenge, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Why another Congo crash signals governance failure, not geography

F-16 fighter jet streaking low over a suburban skyline, dark smoke rising in the background.

Two F-16 crashes in five days raise aging-fleet questions

A Ukrainian Antonov An-124 heavy cargo aircraft parked on an airfield apron under overcast skies.

Europe's 120-tonne airlift gap: a study names it, no one closes it

Air traffic control radar screens showing flight paths at a UK control centre, with aircraft symbols on a dark display.

UK air traffic failures disrupt thousands twice in two weeks

Artificial Intelligence

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IBM Granite 4.2: 512K-Token Reasoning at Sub-Second Latency Without Degradation

Alexa+ Goes Free on Fire TV: Voice Triples, Data Trade-Offs Follow

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Airbus confirms corrosion defect across roughly 500 A321neos

Etna Shuts Catania Airport, Cuts Landings From 12 to 4

FAA Probing 737 MAX software flaw as Boeing delays operator notice by nearly two years

Why another Congo crash signals governance failure, not geography

Two F-16 crashes in five days raise aging-fleet questions

Startups & Entrepreneurship

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Anthropic Moves Enterprise Query Data Off Its Servers — Zero Server-Side Retention After Fable 5 Fallout

₱60B EVIS vs. ₱1.99M Grant: The Philippine EV Math Doesn't Add Up

$1.75M Grant, Zero Customers: Space Angel's Green Spaceport Gamble

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$1.1B Valuation, $60M Raise: Skyroot Becomes India's First Private Orbital Launcher