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Europe's Night Trains Are Back, but the Tunnel Bill Is Still Coming

Europe's December 2023 timetable change restored direct overnight links between city pairs that had been unconnected for years, from Paris to Berlin and Munich to Warsaw. The same network is now waiting on base tunnels whose costs have risen by an average of 82%, according to the European Court of Auditors.

AI and the job market: what the data actually shows

US employers shed 23,000 jobs in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Aug. 7, the first monthly decline since February, while the unemployment rate slipped to 4.1%. The weakening labour market is being blamed on AI, but the evidence is more mixed than the headlines suggest.

Small language models move on-device: Apple, Google, Imbue and Cactus push local AI

Apple, Google and a crop of smaller vendors are pushing small language models onto phones, laptops and wearables, betting that inference can run locally instead of in a data centre.

Safety Testers Find Models Cheating UK Benchmarks as Resignations Mount

EU AI Act Enters Its Hard Phase as GPAI Rules and a Funding Gap Collide

Beijing Moves to Tighten Export Curbs on Gallium, Lithium and Battery Technology

How China's technology policy turned export controls into a supply chain weapon

Lovable valued at $6.6B as AI coding cash concentrates in fewer startups

TSMC calls AI demand endless as Micron warns it can meet only half of orders

The release date is not the story: training cutoffs and adoption data redefine AI model benchmarks

What 'open weights' actually means, and why it is not the same as open source

Wimbledon's AI line judges: 380 of 1,535 player challenges were right

Enterprise agent tooling grows up: what this week's Show HN launches actually tell us

China Weighs Tighter Export Controls on AI Models and Chips, FT Reports

Powering and cooling data centres: why the grid and the chip are the limits

Data centre power and cooling: grid cash, a $1.1M fine, and a 15-minute orbital test

Open weights, closed recipes: what the memorization paper and the licensing fight actually show

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: where the risk actually sits

TSMC and Micron earnings show AI chip demand outpacing supply

Why Europe's Night Trains Keep Multiplying Despite the Delays