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  1. Google, TCS, and the physics of air-cooling a large data centre | ExplainedUsing air-cooling alone to cool a 1-GW data centre is considered impractical; while liquid-cooling imposes higher costs upfront, air-cooling imposes a performance and efficiency tax
  2. Brought in for civilian use, Starlink is now integral to Ukraine’s war effortRussia’s latest attempts to jam the satellite network are about more than disrupting internet access; Starlink sits behind drone operations, battlefield communications, and command networks that stretch across hundreds of kilometres of the war front
  3. Fixing the holes in the education systemAt a time when conversations are moving more towards banning phones and social media, here’s a glimpse into the conversation I had with Sugata Mitra on various things — from his works and life to his idea being implemented worldwide
  4. Why is New York City pausing some AI tools in schools? | ExplainedThe Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels on September 2 imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for pupils up to eighth grade for the 2026–27 academic year
  5. Digital arrest scams: CBI’s nationwide crackdown and the Supreme Court’s continuing oversightThe Central Bureau of Investigation has carried out searches at 89 locations across 20 States
  6. Elon Musk’s xAI loses court bid to block Minnesota's AI ‘nudification’ banMusk’s Grok AI chatbot has faced criticism over its creation of ⁠sexually explicit content
  7. Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October, sources sayThe artificial intelligence company had been expected to make its IPO prospectus public as early as next week, two ‌of the people said
  8. Elon Musk pushes regulatory limits with Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi serviceTesla started manufacturing the Cybercab in April, and Musk ⁠promised production would grow “exponentially” later in the year or next
  9. Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers sayThe agents, AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step, left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German site for programmers
  10. Apple faces £2 billion lawsuit in UK over app privacy featureThe claim, filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal by law firm Hausfeld, centres on Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system
  11. Over ₹134 crore spent on proprietary software at premier institutes, says open source collectiveFOSS United says the amount likely represented a fraction of public university spending on software it claims could be replaced by open source equivalents
  12. Emergency broadcast messages resumed, C-DOT CEO saysMr. Upadhyay said that C-DOT is only the third provider of cell broadcast system service in the world, due to the complex nature of the software needed to pull it off
  13. Google Pixel 11 Review | Comes with meaningful software additions and battery enhancementsGoogle Pixel 11 is not a phone that tries to reinvent the Pixel formula. Instead, Google has focused on making the existing experience better, and that approach works surprisingly well
  14. Poco X8 Power and Poco X8 launched in IndiaPoco X8 ships with a 9,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery, while the Poco X8 Power gets a 10,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery
  15. U.S. auto safety regulator says evaluating Tesla's Cybercab rolloutThe Cybercab ‌is a two-seater autonomous vehicle without a steering ‌wheel, pedals ​or mirrors
  16. U.S. ends probe into Tesla remote driving feature after software updatesThe NHTSA last year opened an investigation into 2.9 ⁠million vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving system over more than 50 ⁠reports of traffic-safety violations and a series of crashes
  17. Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billionNvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal, first reported by U.S. media last month
  18. OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 AstraOpenAI paused some model development for two weeks this summer after two models it was testing were involved in a security breach at AI platform Hugging Face
  19. Why Australia’s music industry banned AI music in chart listing | ExplainedThe Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has said that “wholly AI-generated tracks” will not be eligible for listing on its charts, as more listeners struggle to differentiate between human and machine-made music
  20. Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chairAnil Chakravarthy was previously the chief executive of cloud data management company ‌Informatica for four years; ‌Shantanu Narayen has served as CEO for over 18 ‌years
  21. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude face widespread outages; Amazon Web Services also hitAnthropic said the only affected models remaining are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5; rest of the models have recovered to the baseline error rate
  22. NHRC takes cognisance of 'paid ads' on Meta platform 'promoting' access to child sexual abuse materialIt was also reported that the advertisements had “passed through Meta's review mechanism and remained accessible” despite being reported through its grievance mechanism, until specifically brought to Meta's notice by the BBC
  23. New U.S. tariffs on drones take effectDrones with a takeoff weight exceeding 25 kilograms, as well as those with thermal imaging capabilities and docking stations face a 100% tariff; smaller drones face a 25% duty
  24. Microsoft to cut under 2.5% of workforce in latest layoffs: ReportThe layoffs will impact thousands of roles, including sales and consulting, as well as jobs at ​the Xbox gaming division, ‌the Business Insider report said
  25. The psychology of those left behind in a layoffOracle chose to liquidate 18% of its workforce to fund the future. Whether those who still remain can build that future is now the more consequential question
  26. How John Ternus’s era will shape AppleComing from a botched AI launch that culminated in a $250 million class-action settlement in May, Apple needs to show that its user interface is as much class-leading as its hardware
  27. Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber AI modelsGoogle announced the launch of its new AI model, Gemini 3.8, with two variants
  28. Xiaomi launches Redmi 17 5G in premium segment in IndiaRedmi 17 5G ships with a 7,900mAh battery, supported by a 45W charger inside the box. It also supports wired reverse charging
  29. Anthropic back on 'right side' with Trump administration, U.S. Commerce secretary saysU.S. Commerce ​Secretary Howard Lutnick ⁠said AI giant Anthropic is “back on the right side” ‌with the Trump administration
  30. Google escapes U.S. bid to break up its ad businessThe case focused on Google’s ad tech “stack”, the suite of tools that website publishers use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy them
  31. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces ban on AI use for students until high schoolOnly high school students, typically aged 14 and above, will be permitted to use artificial intelligence in limited pilot programmes
  32. What is the OpenAI criminal investigation about? | ExplainedTwo mass shootings — one in the U.S. and one in Canada — have brought to light the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in public killings
  33. The deaths linked to OpenAI’s GPT-4o | ExplainedMultiple suicides and violent deaths have been linked to an OpenAI model that is no longer accessible, raising questions about how AI companies can be held accountable for fatal product failures in the past
  34. Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times’ copyright case over training of chatbotsThe Justice Department wrote that “the creative possibilities and public benefits” of training large language models on such content “far outweigh any competitive harm”
  35. Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 modelsAnthropic referred to Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 as “the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work”
  36. OpenAI to launch new model with 'stronger safeguards' after hackAlthough Astra "was not involved" in the incident, OpenAI has beefed up its safety measures, the company said in a blog post
  37. U.S. urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meetingGoogle DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressed the gathering by video on Tuesday
  38. John Ternus takes over Apple from Tim CookApple disclosed in a filing on Tuesday that ​Ternus’ annual salary was increased to $3 million
  39. Apple Maps changes name of Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’Users in Canada ‌will ⁠continue to see Lake Ontario, and users in the ⁠rest of the world will see both names, following the same approach Apple used after Mr. Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of ​America
  40. Instagram rolling out ‘AI Creator’ labels on a test basisInstagram shared via its official Creators account that it was testing out a new “AI Creator” label as it encouraged self-identification to build user trust

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