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2026-08-24Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (Financial Times)
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2026-08-24New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (Tracy Withers/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-24Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (Ina Fried/Axios)
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2026-08-24Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff (The Information)
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2026-08-24Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-24At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (Telegraph)
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2026-08-24SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-24A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
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2026-08-24Trump says communities that oppose data centers are "making a mistake" as they create "tremendous amounts of jobs and money", amid bipartisan backlash (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
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