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OpenAI published six things its own models did that it did not expect, alongside a disclosure framework that says when it aims to tell you rather than when it must. Anthropic’s chief executive asked the industry to slow down. Three US agencies accused six Chinese firms of copying American models at industrial scale.
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August was the warmest month ever measured — 16.96°C, and 1.65°C above pre-industrial, the first month past 1.5 since November. UNEP says the long-term average will cross it too, within a few years, peaking at 1.8°C at best. Ten days later the EPA struck most of America’s power-plant carbon rules and proposed striking the rest.
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For the first time an institution with no stake in the war has measured what Ukraine’s deep strikes have done: Russian refining at a twenty-year low, its largest diesel plants shut or throttled, and a budget deficit already past the whole of last year. Russia answered by voting — in occupied Ukraine too — while its drones drew NATO fighters over Lithuania and Brussels began drafting an Article 4 of its own.