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U.S. Trade Gap Ballooned in July

The trade deficit bounced back up last month as spending on data centers to feed the A.I. boom drove up imports.

Mortgage Rates Hit 6.71%, Their Highest Level Since July 2025

Higher costs for home loans have put a squeeze on the housing market, adding pressure to consumers already struggling with elevated inflation.

Bessent Blames Ukraine for High Energy Prices

After meeting with Russia’s finance minister, the Treasury secretary said Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure were contributing to a global energy shock driven mainly by the U.S. war with

Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law

A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.

Schools to close early for A66 crash funeral amid safety concerns

The funeral of one of five young men killed in the crash with a police car is due to take place.

Fifa accuses Uefa of 'smear campaign' against Infantino

The governing bodies have traded blows since Fifa president Gianni Infantino's scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

GitHub dipped 7%, while both AI labs were down

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Watermarks Track AI Generated Content [video]

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GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour

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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

EvalDetectBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Evaluation Awareness in Frontier Language Models

arXiv:2609.01611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier large language models can often recognize when they are being evaluated, a capability known as evaluation awareness. If models behave differen

Meta-ethics and AI: exploring the novel meta-ethical questions in the era of AI

arXiv:2609.01685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the landscape of meta-ethics, which has largely centred on human ethics, faces pressures that may

When Can a Machine Trust a Statute? A Survival Certificate for Machine-Extracted Legal Logic

arXiv:2609.01741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statutes are increasingly parsed by machines before people read them, and the parsers disagree: on Missouri's statutes, two independently written extra

WMLLM: Self-Evolving Optimization Agents via Predict-Then-Act World Modeling

arXiv:2609.01608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box optimization problems remain challenging because of large, weakly structured, and high-dimensional search spaces. Existing methods often suff

DiDrive: A Risk-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion Framework for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.01609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While diffusion models effectively capture multimodal behavioral priors for autonomous driving, offline reinforcement learning (RL) policies remain sus

Prompt-Space Meta-Learning Does Not Transfer Across Users: A Frozen-LLM Negative Result

arXiv:2609.01615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing a frozen large language model (LLM) to individual users is often framed as a meta-learning problem in prompt space: each user is a task,

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

新玩意 251｜少数派的编辑们最近买了啥？

关于栏目很多读者都会好奇少数派的编辑们到底平时都「买了啥」。我们希望通过「编辑部的新玩意」介绍编辑部成员们最近在用的新奇产品，让他们自己来谈谈这些新玩意的使用体验究竟如何。@什么陈：洗手间置物架参考价 ...查看全文

TDS REVIEW | 无印良品 MUJI 头戴式蓝牙降噪耳机体验

经过一个季度的使用，聊聊这个此前不会考虑其数码产品的品牌。查看全文

当说起「Hi-Fi」时，我们到底在追求什么？

聊聊 Hi-Fi 这件事。查看全文

科技爱好者周刊（第 410 期）：你需要知道的 AI 三种机制

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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科技爱好者周刊（第 409 期）：程序员的职业未来

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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科技爱好者周刊（第 408 期）：你需要知道的 AI 缓存知识

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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Vance says Fed should lower interest rates: 'Would be nice to have some help'

Vice President J.D. Vance's remarks came less than two weeks before the Federal Open Market Committee is set to convene and decide whether to adjust rates.

Lululemon stock plunges 15% on disappointing earnings and outlook

Lululemon posted another quarter of disappointing results and a sales slowdown as the company struggles to turn its business around.

The big August jobs report is due out Friday. Here's what to expect for what has been a jobless summer

August nonfarm payrolls are expected to rise by 53,000 as a subdued labor market keeps Fed attention focused on inflation.

Momentum, Fear & The Case For Buying The Dip

AAII Sentiment Survey: Pessimism Sinks

G-III Apparel: Mixed Q2 Read-Across

Dow Jones Futures: Stocks Jump On Fed's Waller; Tesla Cybercab Event Private, Jobs Report In Focus

The stock market jumped above key levels Thursday, buoyed by Snowflake and dovish Fed comments. A Tesla Cybercab event and jobs report are on tap.

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Samsara Earnings, Revenue, Outlook Top Consensus Estimates

Samsara stock popped amid Q2 earnings, as revenue topped estimates while the company's October-quarter revenue guidance came in above views.

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Zscaler Stock Wavers On Cybersecurity Firm's Earnings Beat, Outlook

Zscaler stock popped amid fiscal Q4 earnings that topped estimates while October quarter guidance came in above views.

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OpenAI is about to make its biggest push yet into the legal industry

OpenAI wants to sell large enterprises on its technology. Now, it's taking its case to law firms.

REI's huge Labor Day sale includes Patagonia, Hoka, The North Face, and more

Tents, clothing, climbing gear, car accessories, and so much more are down to all-time lows during REI's Labor Day sale. These are the best deals.

I found sculptural studs that are perfect dupes for the viral Bottega earrings and cost $800 less

These gold statement studs are the perfect Bottega earring dupe. The Kiaras look just like the viral Small Drop earrings, but cost much less.

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by National Westminster Bank Plc

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by National Westminster Bank Plc

当 Agent 走出 App：WorkBuddy 的朋友圈开始向外生长

从内部 Side Project 到 3.9 万开发者使用，Kiro Crew 创造者亲述开发幕后

当Agent开始“吃数据”，传统湖仓不够用了：华为云重构数据基础设施

Six Years, Three Cities, One IPO: SHEIN Finally Lands in Hong Kong

From Guangzhou.

被1.3亿张弃权票终止后，华峰化学带着更贵的收购方案二度“闯关” | 并购一线

倘若本次再度在股东大会折戟，2019年作出的同业竞争注入承诺将面临二次违约。

创新药概念点火、两连板后迅速降温，小方制药底色仍是OTC老生意

一家主打开塞露、甘油灌肠剂、炉甘石洗剂等家庭常备OTC外用药的传统药企，因为一项尚处在临床前阶段的在研项目，被市场贴上创新药标签，引来资金蜂拥入场。

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI

Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers

AI Weekly Issue #528: What are companies building with AI? An Applied AI Deep Dive

We went looking for what companies are actually building with AI. The answer was not more chatbots. It was drones carrying diagnostic samples, driverless Frito-Lay trucks, AI-guided flight paths, repa

AI Weekly Issue #527: Schools are choosing opposite futures for AI

One University of Chicago curriculum is removing AI-assisted writing from the classroom. Alpha School is expanding a model that puts adaptive software at the center of the academic day. The strongest

AI Weekly Issue #525: Nvidia may buy into Perplexity above $30B before Wednesday's earnings

The Information reports that Nvidia is discussing an equity investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion. Perplexity's annualized revenue has reportedly passed $750 million, up from less

Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them

Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them