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ICC stands for International Criminal Court.
Think about that for a second. Take all the time you need.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

US announces new sanctions on ICC president and top lawyer
The Trump administration has vowed to dismantle the international court "brick by brick".

hey, mission of burma reunited (again) (briefly) last week! https://artsfuse.org/333113/concert-review-mission-of-burma-reunites-for-a-fenway-recordings-homecoming/

Concert Review: Mission of Burma Reunites for a Fenway Recordings Homecoming - The Arts Fuse
At Brighton Music Hall, Boston’s avant-punk legends capped Mark Kates’s label anniversary with a surprisingly potent four-song set and a tribute to the late Jeff “Monoman” Conolly.

Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with superior intuition and reasoning that can discern unstated intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic…

Anthropic Readies Model That Reads Users' Intentions Better
In the last month, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have released more than a dozen new models. If you thought that pace was crazy, don’t expect things to slow down anytime soon.Anthropic is preparing to release a new model that is better in its reasoning and intuition than the Anthropic models that ...

Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump

This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.
DHS appointees made an unusual request of its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the agency for its own ends.

Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/

OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training
After an unreleased model escaped its sandbox, OpenAI has paused frontier training efforts and shifted resources towards safety

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…

Google Says Its AI Can Do the Work of Forward Deployed Engineers
Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire so-called forward deployed engineers to get newfangled AI to work in enterprises.Then there’s Google, which says AI can automate some of what these FDEs do.While Google ...

Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-shaping-huawei…

How DeepSeek Is Shaping Huawei’s AI Chips in a Growing Challenge to Nvidia
DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, two people familiar with the matter said, in a collaboration that could help China build frontier AI models without Nvidia’s technology. The relationship goes beyond the kinds of conversations companies ...

Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-prepares…

Anthropic Prepares Supervoting Power for Founders as it Readies for Mega-IPO
Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside shareholder pressure, two people familiar with the matter said. It would be the first time Anthropic’s leaders have extra voting power, which ...

SK Hynix launches SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley, expanding its corporate investment scope into AI computing, data centers, and optical interconnect tech (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10878747

SK hynix launches SK hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley - The Korea Herald
SK hynix said Friday it had launched SK hynix Ventures, a corporate venture capital brand in Silicon Valley, as the memory chipmaker expands its investment acti

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster (Moon Joon-hyun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10812835

SK chief warns AI memory shortage could turn geopolitical - The Korea Herald
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said the global shortage of AI memory chips is severe enough that foreign governments have started intervening on behalf of their