Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’
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Claude Outage Hits Claude.ai, API, Claude Code and Cowork as Errors Spread Across Models
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Anthropic opened an incident on August 20, 2026, after elevated errors began hitting requests to what the company described as some Claude models, with the disruption reaching across nearly the entire Claude product line. The incident notice, posted at 19:16 UTC, lists claude.ai, the Claude API at api.anthropic.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as affected. […]
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Agnidipta Sarkar, Chief Evangelist, ColorTokens – Interview Series
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Agnidipta Sarkar, Chief Evangelist, ColorTokens is a cybersecurity and digital resilience leader with more than three decades of experience spanning cyber defense, risk management, business continuity, privacy, and Zero Trust. At ColorTokens, he works with boards, C-suite executives, and security leaders to strengthen breach readiness and connect cybersecurity programs with business priorities, while also contributing […]
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ChatGPT Plugin Reads and Sends Apple Messages on Apple Silicon Macs
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OpenAI has shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, letting the chatbot read and search a Mac’s iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations and prepare or send texts through the Messages app itself. The feature landed August 20, 2026, in the company’s release notes, and it works inside Codex and ChatGPT […]
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OpenAI Closes on Anthropic in Ramp’s Business Spending Data
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OpenAI is growing faster than Anthropic among U.S. businesses so far this quarter, according to new Ramp spending data posted August 20, 2026 by the expense-management company’s lead economist, Ara Kharazian, marking the first signs of a reversal since Anthropic took the lead in corporate AI spending three months ago. The numbers come from the […]
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TVA Board Creates Data Center Rate to Shield Households From AI Power Costs
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The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors on August 20, 2026 approved a new wholesale rate class built specifically for data centers, part of a package that also adopted the utility’s 2026 Integrated Resource Plan and a fiscal 2027 budget carrying more than $13 billion in planned generation and transmission spending through FY29. The actions, […]
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‘First-of-its-kind’ citizen science study estimates 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water enter Lower River Roding each year
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The River Roding between Redbridge and South Woodford (image credit: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0 license). Around 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water are estimated to enter the River Roding and its tributaries every year via unpermitted and previously unmonitored outfalls, according to a new citizen science study. This is equivalent to around 240 Olympic-sized […]
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Utility adopts technology to recycle contaminated laboratory plastics
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Plastic bottles in the shredder (image credit: Scottish Water). Scottish Water has begun using an on-site disinfection and shredding technology that could allow potentially contaminated single-use laboratory plastics to be recycled instead of being autoclaved and sent to landfill or incineration. The utility has adopted Envetec Sustainable Technologies’ GENERATIONS system to process plastic waste generated […]
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Councils could gain new powers to make fly-tippers clean up waste
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Fly-tipping offenders could be required to clean up dumped waste and contribute towards the cost of putting the damage right under government proposals intended to strengthen local enforcement, as environmental health professionals call for better use of local intelligence to tackle organised waste crime. A consultation launched by Defra on 20 August proposes giving local […]
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Q&A: What is ‘long-duration energy storage’ – and why does the UK need it?
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Hyve Solutions Picks Nevada for Two AI Server Manufacturing Campuses
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Hyve Solutions, the server design and manufacturing arm of TD SYNNEX, announced on August 19, 2026 that it will build two advanced manufacturing campuses in Nevada (a 624,000-square-foot flagship site in Reno and a second facility in North Las Vegas) to expand U.S. production of the compute, storage, and networking systems that feed AI data […]
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SANY Ships First Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks to South America
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SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company’s first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The deployment packages the trucks with an intelligent dispatching system and lifecycle operations and maintenance services. It is SANY’s first deployment of its autonomous mining solution […]
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Skanska Signs $1.2B Contract to Build Four Data Centers in the Southeast USA
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Skanska has signed a contract with an existing client to build four new data centers in the southeast region of the USA, a deal worth USD 1.2 billion (about SEK 11.2 billion), the Swedish construction group announced on August 20, 2026, in a company release. The full value will be booked into Skanska’s US order […]
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Guideless Raises €1M Pre-Seed to Turn Software Workflows Into AI Training Guides
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Lithuanian AI startup Guideless has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding as it looks to rethink one of the less glamorous but persistent problems inside software-driven organizations: documenting how work actually gets done. The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC and angel investors Thomas Plantenga, Group CEO of Vinted; Vytautas […]
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Binance Opens Its Trading Infrastructure to AI Agents With Agent OS
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Binance, the crypto exchange that reports more than 300 million registered users, on August 20, 2026 launched Agent OS, a developer platform that connects AI agents to its trading, payments, and wallet infrastructure, letting software built on tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor read markets, manage portfolios, and place trades on users’ behalf. Agent […]
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Latin America reaches 10,000 electric buses milestone
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Electric buses in São Paulo, which has expanded its fleet to 1,759 vehicles, including 1,570 battery-electric buses and 189 trolleybuses. Latin American cities now have more than 10,000 electric buses in operation, marking a significant milestone in the region’s shift towards zero-emission public transport. According to data from E-Bus Radar, announced by C40 Cities and […]
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Grouse decline study expands into Scotland
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GWCT ecologist Jay Thompson taking samples of heather for nutrient analysis (image credit: GWCT). A long-running study investigating the causes of declining red grouse breeding success has expanded into Scotland, allowing researchers to compare the influence of weather, food, habitat, parasites and disease across British uplands, as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) explains. […]
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Precast storm tanks join AMP8 rollout
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Severn Trent representatives visit Marshalls’ Pollington manufacturing facility following the company’s appointment to the £6 million storm tank framework. Water-management products manufacturer Marshalls Civils & Drainage has been appointed to a £6 million Severn Trent framework to supply precast concrete storm tanks as part of the water company’s AMP8 investment programme. The company is one […]