⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Media’s new paid data service goes live, giving clients faster access to Trump’s posts

Trump Media and Technology Group’s new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts on the platform.

“Truth API,” the new application programming interface, is designed to give firms “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths,” — interim CEO Kevin McGurn said in a release announcing the launch.

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🇹🇷🇮🇶Turkey and Iraq signed a one-year agreement on maintaining use ​of the crude oil pipeline between the ‌two countries

The agreement extended a decades-long bilateral arrangement ​that expired on Monday which allows ​the operation of Baghdad's only functioning export ⁠pipeline, the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP).

"While our efforts continue ​toward a new long-term agreement for this pipeline... ​we have implemented this transit arrangement covering a daily capacity of 750,000 barrels," — Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.

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⚡️🇪🇺 Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August

From 2 August 2026, the European Commission's AI Office, together with national authorities, will begin enforcing the AI Act. New transparency rules will start to apply, requiring certain AI systems to tell users when they are interacting with AI and when content has been generated or altered by it.

❗️Under the new rules, chatbots and other interactive AI systems will have to tell users they are dealing with AI, not a human. Deepfakes (images, videos, or audio that have been edited or generated using AI) will have to be labelled. AI-generated or altered content will also have to carry machine-readable marks so it can be detected more easily.

The Commission published today a first list of more than 180 organisations that have signed the Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content that operationalises the rules on transparency of AI-generated content.

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💠 Tesla is opening a new flagship store in Osaka, Japan

Tesla Grand Front Osaka opens August 8, its new flagship in western Japan. A Tesla Gallery showcasing the company's latest technology follows on September 17, and test drive bookings are open.

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🇷🇺 Russian decree bans crypto mining across Moscow region through 2032

The Russian government has issued a decree banning crypto mining and participation in mining pools in Moscow, the surrounding Moscow region, and parts of the Kursk region from Aug. 15 until the end of 2032.

❗️The more than six-year ban will expand restrictions aimed at curbing the crypto mining industry’s pressure on local electricity networks. The decree, Government Decree No. 936, was dated July 25 and published on Russia’s official legal information portal on Friday.

🟠The decree covers the capital city of Moscow and the entirety of the surrounding Moscow Oblast. It also applies to eight municipal districts in Kursk Oblast and the city of Lgov.

The measure finalizes a proposal published by the country’s Energy Ministry in late June, which included an explanatory note that said the affected territories could face electricity shortages if the mining activities were not prohibited year-round.

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🇮🇳 India is building its own space station called BAS, with the first module, BAS-01, set to launch in 2028

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🤖 OpenAI says their unreleased model called 'Astra' cracked 10 math problems no human could solve for decades

The problems span mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science.

"As AI systems evolve into more sophisticated research collaborators, ensuring widespread access is fundamental to supporting scientists and mathematicians as they navigate and define the future of their disciplines during this transformative era," — OpenAI wrote.

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✔️ FTC approves IonQ acquisition of SkyWater semiconductor ‍foundry

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission cleared quantum computing firm ​IonQ's $1.8 billion acquisition of chipmaker ‌SkyWater Technology, the largest semiconductor foundry ⁠based ​in the U.S., after the agency's leaders disagreed over whether to impose conditions.

Chairman Andrew ​Ferguson proposed requiring IonQ ​to agree to granting fair access ​to rival quantum computing companies, some of whom have ongoing contracts with SkyWater, among ​other measures to protect competition ​as the U.S. adds chip manufacturing capacity.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela Starts US-Backed Talks on Future Democratic Elections

Venezuela’s government and some opposition members formally launched a US-backed political dialogue that could establish the terms for future democratic elections. Representatives of the government-controlled National Assembly and members of the 2015 opposition-led National Assembly had a phone call on Saturday.

The parties established technical working groups that are expected to begin in-person meetings next week in Caracas. The groups will discuss the response for the victims of the recent twin earthquakes, strengthening democracy and political rights and guarantees.

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📱 Grok can watch and analyze any video

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🇺🇸🇲🇦Morocco Says Trump Highway Naming Is Mark of ‘Deep Appreciation’

Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give US President Donald Trump’s name to a $1 billion highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader.

In a letter reported by state news agency MAP, the North African monarch confirmed the 1,055-kilometer (660 miles) expressway between Tiznit and the Western Sahara city of Dakhla will be called the Donald J. Trump Highway.

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🛢OPEC+ Agrees in Principle to Small Quota Hike, Delegates Say

Major OPEC+ nations have agreed in principle to another token increase in their production quotas for September, a move that would complete the theoretical revival of supplies halted in 2023 and give them scope to add more barrels once the Middle East war ends.

Seven members led by Saudi Arabia and Russia are likely to agree to boost their collective target by a further 188,000 barrels a day next month, two delegates said.

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🕵🏻‍♂️🇨🇳 Chinese police AI algorithm tracks bitcoin money laundering with 90% accuracy

Researchers from China’s national police academy have developed an AI framework that can detect illicit cryptocurrency transactions with nearly 90% overall accuracy, according to a recent study.

In an article published in the peer-reviewed Chinese publication Journal of Intelligence, corresponding author Dr Sun Jingchao wrote that the study “provides a precise, generalisable and interpretable solution for detecting illicit cryptocurrency transactions”.

It also “provides an innovative technological pathway for regulatory authorities to combat illicit cryptocurrency transactions and economic crimes”, Sun, a researcher specialising in criminal investigation and cybersecurity, wrote.

The study was conducted by experts from the People's Public Security University of China, an institution affiliated with China's Ministry of Public Security.

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🤖 Over 99.99% of oil removed from seawater with higher evaporation rate using new membrane

Growing populations and expanding industries are worsening freshwater shortages across Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, increasing demand for sustainable water supplies. Solar desalination uses sunlight to produce freshwater efficiently, but oil contamination in seawater can clog desalination membranes and reduce their performance.

In an effort to overcome this limitation, researchers at Pusan National University developed a multifunctional hydrogel membrane that combines oil separation and solar-driven desalination in a single system. The study was published online on June 1, 2026, and will appear in the October 15, 2026, issue of Desalination.

Testing showed that the membrane removed more than 99.99% of oil from contaminated seawater while maintaining stable performance across different oil droplet sizes and repeated cycles. It represents a broader strategy for designing next-generation water treatment technologies.

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🧠 A Massive Study Reveals the Brain Is Far More Flexible Than We Thought

“We have to move away from this image of the brain as a machine made of gears, with every gear having an exact purpose that we can attach a label to,” — said Stefano Fusi, PhD, a principal investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.

“The brain doesn’t work like that. Instead, most neurons can display a huge diversity of responses, and this can help the brain solve a huge number of different tasks.”

Most neurons may be far more versatile than scientists once thought. In a major study published in Nature, researchers analyzed more than 14,000 individual neurons across 43 regions of the mouse cortex and found that most didn't perform one clearly defined job. Instead, they responded to shifting combinations of sensory information, movement, and decision-making.

A neuron that appears devoted to one feature under certain conditions may also encode several other pieces of information. That flexibility could help explain how the brain handles new situations without requiring a separate group of cells for every possible experience.

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