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Parliament's urgent procedure required 361 votes against to block the renewal; opponents reached 314, 47 votes short.
An analysis of 3,519 AI job postings across eight EU countries finds engineering hiring scales up while governance hiring does not. Sweden's 16:1 ratio is the starkest signal.
Starting July 20, the rule bars camera-equipped eyewear including prescription smart glasses from all 1,240 state and local courts and gives courts a template other institutions are likely to copy.
₹6 lakh crore ($72 billion) and 7.5 gigawatts in targets put Gujarat in competition with Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu — and trigger a southern response that's now near-certain.
Microsoft closed CVE-2026-50656, a privilege-escalation zero-day in Defender, the anti-malware built into Windows. A public proof-of-concept named 'RoguePlanet' lived on GitHub while Microsoft needed two patches before one held.
A new RAND dissertation by Krystyna Marcinek identifies three mechanisms by which autonomous weapons raise conflict odds; the third, and least studied, is the increasing political benefits of fighting.
High-bandwidth memory sits inside nearly every leading AI accelerator, and fabrication is concentrated in a handful of East Asian facilities.
EU regulators may have pushed back high-risk AI compliance dates, but Article 10 still requires that AI systems in credit, hiring, and insurance be auditable end to end.
After the 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision narrowed the Clean Water Act, dozens of US data centers are clearing federal wetland permits without the public-comment window that let neighbors weigh in.
Agentic commerce is AI software that buys and pays without human approval, and Stripe's data lead says the bottleneck is now fraud, stolen tokens, and an open liability question, not smarter models.
Amazon's Project Kuiper is a planned 3,232-satellite Starlink rival. It has placed about 400 in 15 months; SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlinks in the first half of 2026.
A Shanghai humanoid robot startup says it has produced 15,000 general-purpose units. Xinhua framed the count as a 'global robotics powerhouse' moment. The figure is the company's; the framing is the wire's.