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Friday, 14 August 2026 · Global Edition · Updated 07:25 CST
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Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

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Musk v. Altman is just getting started

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s

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Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races

Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next.

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Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines

More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.

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Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.

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Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal

Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.

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GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests

New results suggest Mythos' cyber threat isn't "a breakthrough specific to one model."

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Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered.

We'll soon get to see the brand's first EV; first, a more honed V12 four-seater.

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Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

Article URL: https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977659 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

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AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-centers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977498 Points: 19 # Comments: 1

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Understand Anything

Article URL: https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977470 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

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Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwxV0Sd9V8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977450 Points: 84 # Comments: 49

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Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months

Article URL: https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976415 Points: 259 # Comments: 269

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Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

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