| AI and work | A US court has ruled Workday's AI bias testing privileged because its lawyers curated the data | 5 |
| Copyright and courts | A judge made OpenAI hand over 20 million ChatGPT conversations, then ordered 88 million more | 5 |
| Compute and energy | An EPRI paper found data centres cut US retail power prices from 2015 to 2024, against forecasts of rises | 6 |
| Compute and energy | Anthropic's pledge to pay for the grid its data centres need names no sum, no site and no auditor | 8 |
| Regulation | Brussels switched on AI labelling in August and pushed the high risk rules out to December 2027 | 7 |
| Safety and liability | Florida's ten count complaint against OpenAI names Sam Altman personally on nine counts | 6 |
| Copyright and courts | Getty won permission to appeal the UK ruling that Stable Diffusion is not an infringing copy | 6 |
| AI infrastructure and energy | IEA puts data centres at 485 TWh in 2025 and 950 TWh by 2030, while reviewers span a 40 fold range | 6 |
| Research and benchmarks | Stanford puts the US lead over Chinese models at 2.7 per cent but does not say which benchmarks that is | 8 |
| Research and benchmarks | Stanford's AI Index reports 362 AI incidents in 2025 as model transparency fell from 58 to 40 | 10 |
| Copyright and courts | The 1.5 billion dollar Anthropic settlement is final, but the per book figure everyone quotes is wrong | 8 |
| Regulation | The EU AI Act rules that started on 2 August are the labelling ones, not the high risk ones | 8 |
| Geopolitics and compute | Washington licensed about 10 billion dollars of H200 chips for China, and almost none shipped | 6 |
| Australia | Labor abandoned its FOI overhaul in March, and an audit has since found the system failing | 12 |
| Courts and rights | Courts have refused every attempt to stop Dhurandhar 2, including a writer's and a song owner's | 10 |
| Courts and rights | Delhi High Court has ordered the Kala Hiran teaser taken down, but it has not stopped the film's release | 8 |
| Courts and rights | Delhi High Court keeps granting celebrity takedown orders, and keeps refusing to make them blanket bans | 7 |
| Box office | Dhurandhar's record totals come from private trackers, and the reference tables disagree with each other | 8 |
| Technology | AMD's Data Centre Revenue Has Doubled, but the OpenAI Gigawatt It Promised Has Not Shipped | 12 |
| Insurance and regulation | ASIC reviewed eight car insurance brands with 72 per cent of the market and none explains its pricing | 8 |
| Technology | ByteDance's Brazil Data Centre Will Be Its Largest Outside China, and Indigenous Occupiers Have Been on the Site | 14 |
| Courts | Samsung's $445m Patent Loss Stands. The Fight Now Is Whether Its Phones Can Be Banned | 11 |
| Markets | SpaceX beat revenue forecasts in its first public quarter, then fell 13.6 per cent on capital spending | 6 |
| Central banking | The RBA board weighed only a hold or a hike on 11 August, and left the cash rate at 4.35 per cent | 8 |
| Finance | The banks' G7 stablecoin still does not exist. A 37 bank euro project has overtaken it. | 12 |
| Energy | Tomago's $2.5bn power underwrite is split evenly with NSW and does not begin until 2028 | 6 |
| Media and technology | Trump Media lost $238m on $1.7m of revenue, and its paid feed of the President's posts is now in court | 5 |
| Shipping and energy markets | Two ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on 14 August and no crude at all, against 130 a day before the war | 8 |
| Trade and tariffs | US Customs has refunded about $100bn of struck down tariffs while replacement duties run under three laws | 7 |
| Attribution science | Attribution study finds Canada's peak fire week is now five times likelier than in a cooler climate | 8 |
| Fossil fuels | Australia's biggest gas plant was approved to 2070 with 48 conditions, and is now in court | 7 |
| Carbon markets | Australia's emissions regulator recorded 13.4 million offset units surrendered under the safeguard scheme | 7 |
| Climate policy | Canberra set a 62 to 70 per cent 2035 climate target, then projected a 48 per cent cut | 12 |
| Climate data | Copernicus called 2025 the third warmest year at 1.47C, NASA called it a tie for second | 10 |
| Carbon markets | Integrity Council rules 58.4 million forest carbon credits cannot carry its quality label | 9 |
| Adaptation | NSW audit finds $980m flood adaptation programs began with no business case | 8 |
| Climate litigation | Paris court finds TotalEnergies misled consumers on carbon neutrality, orders 180 days of notice | 9 |
| Climate litigation | Paris court orders TotalEnergies to put customer emissions in its vigilance plan | 7 |
| Energy | The IEA's 113 million barrels a day figure is one scenario of four, not a 2050 forecast | 9 |
| Procurement | A $5 million airport tender was offered for a 5 per cent kickback, and no Commonwealth offence fitted | 9 |
| Foreign bribery | A Brooklyn jury convicted a former Goldman Sachs banker of paying more than a million dollars to Ghanaian officials for a power plant deal | 6 |
| Measurement and data | Australia scored 76 on an index that counts perceptions of corruption, not corruption | 10 |
| Integrity commissions | Federal Court leaves intact a corruption finding built on leaked papers, not money | 9 |
| Financial regulation | FinCEN fines UBS Financial Services $125m for repeating the failure it was fined for in 2018 | 8 |
| Foreign bribery | Grain trader Scoular pays $10.2m over bribes at the Mexican border, some reaching a cartel | 10 |
| Public inquiries | ICAC finds NSW schools building chief corrupt after $344m went to contract workers | 8 |
| Asset recovery | Nigeria's former attorney general lost 48 properties to an order needing no conviction | 9 |
| Political finance | Paris appeal court convicts 12 over National Rally staffing and cuts Le Pen's ban to 45 months | 7 |
| Courts and judgments | Peru's Constitutional Court voided Ollanta Humala's 15 year conviction on a question of dates | 8 |
| Whistleblowing | Treasury's whistleblower review closes as ASIC finds only 39 per cent of disclosures qualified | 9 |
| Electoral law reform | Australia's biggest electoral funding overhaul in 40 years slipped to 1 January 2027 over one by-election | 9 |
| Courts and the vote | Mississippi can still count mail ballots that arrive five days late, with Barrett writing and Alito dissenting | 7 |
| Campaign finance | Party committees can now spend without limit alongside their own candidates after a 2001 precedent fell | 8 |
| Redistricting | Prop 50's map beat a Republican and a Justice Department challenge, then a one sentence Supreme Court order | 8 |
| Platforms and elections | The EU's first Digital Services Act fine was about a blue tick, an ad archive and researcher access | 8 |
| Executive power | The Supreme Court buried Humphrey's Executor on 29 June 2026 and exempted the Federal Reserve the same day | 8 |
| Courts and the vote | The Supreme Court left Section 2 standing in Callais and changed what plaintiffs have to prove | 8 |
| Courts | Two years after Snyder, federal corruption law covers bribes but not rewards, and the states have been left to fill the gap | 5 |
| Australian tertiary policy | Australia's tertiary commission ran for seven weeks with its First Nations seat empty | 8 |
| Australian schools governance | IBAC found no corrupt conduct in Victoria's firefighters deal, but named the man now running its schools | 9 |
| Civil rights in education | The US education department deleted disparate impact from its Title VI rules without taking comment | 9 |
| Student debt | Two federal judges vacated the same student loan forgiveness rule on the same day, on different grounds | 8 |
| Film | After the Hunt lost roughly US$60 million in cinemas, then went to number one on Prime Video | 8 |
| Entertainment | Chandni Bar sequel holds its December 2026 date while the fight over the title stays unresolved | 7 |
| Entertainment | Deepika Padukone's fight over eight hour shifts has outlasted the search rankings | 7 |
| Entertainment | Kantara: Chapter 1 closed near Rs 850 crore, and Rishab Shetty has confirmed a third film | 9 |
| Film | Lopez's Zemeckis thriller wrapped nine months ago and Netflix still has not dated it | 11 |
| Industry | Shah Rukh Khan is not the world's richest actor, and Hurun now values him below its 2025 figure | 9 |
| Music | Swift's Showgirl was the world's biggest selling album of 2025 and won nothing at the 2026 Grammys | 12 |
| Film | Swift's cinema release party closed at US$50.1 million, and ten months later it still has not streamed | 6 |
| Entertainment | Thamma recovered its budget and little more, and the Maddock horror universe has slipped a year | 8 |
| Work and pay | Australia's employer pay gap fell to 11.2 per cent, and its new targets regime carries no fine | 10 |
| Law and legal recognition | EU top court rules Bulgaria's refusal to amend gender records breaches free movement law | 8 |
| Schools and curriculum | England scraps standalone school gender guidance and puts the rules inside statutory safeguarding | 13 |
| Asylum and migration | Four countries on the EU's new safe list still jail people over same-sex conduct | 10 |
| Sport and eligibility policy | IOC restores sex testing for the 2028 female category as the evidence stays contested | 8 |
| Law and legislation | Slovakia put a two sex rule in its constitution by 90 votes, and Brussels opened a case | 9 |
| Sexual health | Three randomised trials found no gonorrhoea protection from the vaccine England still offers | 8 |
| Data and demography | Two statistical agencies counted same-sex couples in April and warned about the numbers | 8 |
| Media and advertising regulation | UK ad regulator bans an AI girlfriend advert for selling female compliance | 9 |
| Reproductive health law | US Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit order that would have ended abortion pills by post | 12 |
| Courts and the law | US Supreme Court upholds state bans on trans girls in school sport, six to three, on 30 June 2026 | 9 |
| Environment and health | Australia doubled its draft PFOS drinking water limit to 8 nanograms per litre before publishing it | 6 |
| Health workforce | England's resident doctors accepted the pay and jobs deal by 52.9 to 47.1 per cent on a 57 per cent turnout | 8 |
| Health coverage | Medicaid work rules took effect on 31 July 2026 with nine exempt groups and two very different loss estimates | 8 |
| Mental health | Six days after an executive order on mental illness, the FDA gave psilocybin a voucher, not an approval | 9 |
| Communicable disease | The Americas lost measles elimination in November 2025, and the United States is judged in November 2026 | 5 |
| Vaccines and immunisation | US vaccine advisers voted 8 to 3 to end the universal hepatitis B birth dose after 34 years | 5 |
| Medicines pricing | White House counts ten years of savings from drug pricing deals that filings say run three | 8 |
| Law and courts | A vacated New York conviction is why a California court has ordered Weinstein resentenced | 7 |
| AI and copyright | Disney sued Midjourney and licensed 200 characters to Sora, and the Sora deal lasted 103 days | 8 |
| Law and courts | Hollywood's site blocking bill builds a court process most blocked sites will never attend | 6 |
| AI and copyright | Netflix's price for Ben Affleck's 16-person AI startup was $587 million, disclosed in a July filing | 7 |
| Awards | The Academy's AI rules test human authorship, the Golden Globes' demand a written disclosure of every use | 8 |
| Law and courts | The It Ends With Us case ended on privilege and employment status, not on the facts | 5 |
| Freedom of expression | A US judge struck down Trump's NPR and PBS defunding order as viewpoint retaliation | 8 |
| International justice | Australia is one of two non-European states in the new Ukraine aggression tribunal | 9 |
| Immigration detention | Australia's rights commission found five breaches over a detained family; Home Affairs rejected all | 9 |
| Housing rights | Canberra court voids forced relocation of three tenants who held their homes 27 to 42 years | 9 |
| Courts and equality | EU top court finds Hungary's 2021 anti-LGBTI law breaches the Union's founding values | 7 |
| Indigenous rights | Federal Court orders Fortescue to pay Yindjibarndi $150.3 million for mining on their country | 11 |
| Surveillance and privacy | High Court upholds Met facial recognition policy as London face scans pass 1.7 million | 8 |
| Disability rights | Muckamore inquiry finds restraint replaced care at a learning disability hospital | 9 |
| Business and human rights | Paris court makes Yves Rocher's parent pay for union sackings at a Turkish factory | 11 |
| Protest and assembly | Post-Bondi protest ban was unconstitutional, NSW Court of Appeal rules unanimously | 11 |
| Children's rights | Reddit fined £14.47m as UK and Australian regulators reject self declared ages for children | 9 |
| Liberty and detention | UK Supreme Court overturns Cheshire West and narrows who counts as deprived of liberty | 9 |
| United Nations | UN anti-racism committee invokes urgent action procedure over Indigenous children in Australian detention | 10 |
| Health | Coldrif tests reported up to 48.6 per cent diethylene glycol, and the published limits do not agree | 5 |
| Transport and safety | Fourteen months after the Ahmedabad crash, India's accident bureau still has no final report | 6 |
| Governance and data | India has notified 40 census questions including caste, the first such count since 1931 | 5 |
| Law and business | India shut a 23 billion dollar online gaming industry by statute before the challenge was heard | 5 |
| Trade and economy | India's 18 per cent tariff deal lasted a fortnight, and the rate it pays now rests on a third law | 8 |
| Trade and economy | India's 25 per cent oil penalty ended by executive order, but the 18 per cent rate has no legal text | 5 |
| Society | India's Census 2027 gazette makes caste item 10 of 40, and is silent on how the answer is recorded | 9 |
| Economy and welfare | India's new rural jobs Act raises the guarantee to 125 days and caps what each state may spend | 7 |
| Business and markets | Jane Street paid 4,843 crore rupees into escrow and resumed trading, and SEBI has still not adjudicated | 5 |
| Aviation | The AI171 preliminary report never says which pilot spoke, and AAIB has set no final report date | 5 |
| Law and democracy | The Supreme Court upheld Bihar's roll revision and sent deleted voters to citizenship authorities | 6 |
| Education | Analysis of Australia's 2026 NAPLAN data puts the Year 9 numeracy gap at seven years and nine months | 9 |
| Cost of living | Australia swapped its inflation benchmark for one with 18 months of history | 10 |
| Housing | Australia's housing council reports record rent burden of 33.1 per cent of median income | 8 |
| Official statistics | Australia's official income and wealth survey has been dark since 2019-20 | 8 |
| Social security | Britain scrapped the two child limit on 6 April, and the benefit cap kept 41,000 families out | 8 |
| Race and criminal justice | First Nations adults jailed at 16.8 times the non-Indigenous rate, Productivity Commission reports | 8 |
| Indigenous health | Indigenous suicide rate rose to 33.9 per 100,000 in 2024, Closing the Gap data shows | 9 |
| Digital divide | Ombudsman logs 27,882 country telco complaints and asks for a root and branch law review | 9 |
| Poverty measurement | Pakistan's first household survey since 2019 pushed a regional poverty rate from 11.8 to 14.4 per cent | 10 |
| Tax and wealth | Treasury delays action on wealthy tax audit as rich share of UK tax gap rises to 6% | 8 |
| Housing and regional policy | Victoria accepts 28 of 34 regional housing recommendations, and puts the costly ones under review | 8 |
| Gender wealth gap | Women reach 67 with £105,000 in pension savings, men with £232,000, UK figures show | 7 |
| Courts and delay | Crown Court backlog holds at 80,061 as cases open a year or more hit 22,124 | 10 |
| Class actions | Federal Court approves $548.5m robodebt settlement and halves the litigation funder's fee | 7 |
| Judicial independence | India's Supreme Court grew from 34 judges to 38 by ordinance, and Parliament ratified it late | 12 |
| Wrongful convictions | Louisiana's highest court frees a man after 27 years on death row over bite mark evidence | 9 |
| Policing oversight | NSW police watchdog found conflict of interest forms in 32 per cent of officer domestic violence cases | 8 |
| Forensic science | Queensland forensic lab audits more than 900 DNA statements after a courtroom error | 10 |
| Youth justice | Victorian inquiry finds 12 of 26 children were remanded before turning 14, most never sentenced | 8 |
| Labour market statistics | Australia added 76,300 jobs in June yet underemployment rose to 6.5 per cent | 8 |
| Gig economy and worker classification | Australia's food delivery riders get an hourly floor today, but not employee status | 8 |
| Minimum wages | Australia's wage umpire lifted award rates 4.75 per cent and rebuilt the floor at $26.44 an hour | 7 |
| Superannuation and retirement savings | Federal Court fines Mercer Super $10.3m over three years of unreported breach investigations | 8 |
| Discrimination and harassment | No policy, no training: Perth employer ordered to pay $125,238 for harassment on shift five | 7 |
| Wage theft and enforcement | Peabody repaid $4.98m to 197 coal workers, then signed a Fair Work undertaking instead of facing court | 7 |
| Working hours | South Korea's chip law took effect on 11 August without the 52 hour exemption industry wanted | 10 |
| Redundancy and restructuring | Tribunal orders 90-day protective awards for 1,687 workers dismissed as ISG collapsed | 12 |
| Wage theft | UNSW to repay $32.7 million to 33,069 staff under Fair Work undertaking | 7 |
| Supply chains | US adds 43 Chinese companies to forced labour import ban, taking the list to 187 | 8 |
| Collective bargaining | US court strikes down the NLRB successor bar that compelled new owners to bargain for a year | 8 |
| Workplace safety | US regulator proposes $794,456 penalty over hydrogen sulfide deaths at a Maine pulp mill | 9 |
| Industrial relations | Victorian teachers call off a third strike after 79 per cent back a four-year pay deal | 10 |
| Media regulation | Australia's news levy reached Parliament with a smaller base, a higher rate and AI chatbots still outside it | 10 |
| Press freedom | CPJ counted 129 press deaths in 2025, 47 of them classed as murder and 39 involving drones | 7 |
| Media | Google has made AI Mode the default. Brussels and London are now testing whether publishers can refuse. | 9 |
| Audiences and trust | Ten per cent now use AI chatbots for news each week, and 4 per cent of people click through to the source | 6 |
| Platform regulation | The EU's first Digital Services Act fine against X was about blue ticks, an ad database and researcher access | 9 |
| Media regulation | The FCC waived the 39 per cent TV ownership cap for Nexstar, and a court then ordered Tegna held separate | 8 |
| Media business | The order freezing Paramount's Warner Bros. deal expires today, and no injunction has replaced it | 7 |
| Statistics | ABS puts Australia's 2025 net overseas migration at 301,000, above the budget's 225,000 path | 9 |
| Child protection | Audit finds US refugee agency missed 80 of 198 required visits to child migrant shelters | 8 |
| Courts and asylum law | High Court upholds UK student visa ban on Afghan, Cameroonian, Burmese and Sudanese nationals | 8 |
| Detention oversight | Ombudsman finds Australia's detention handover to a US prison operator degraded care and safety | 8 |
| Search and rescue | Salerno court annuls Geo Barents detention and rejects Libyan orders as rescue coordination | 9 |
| Labour migration | UK migration advisers cut the shortage visa list to 28 jobs, all for 18 months only | 9 |
| Returns and readmission | UK to France returns treaty extended to October and widened to cover people smuggled back by lorry | 9 |
| Citizenship | US Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship on 30 June, and a new order followed on 6 August | 11 |
| Superannuation | About 11,000 people put $1.1 billion into First Guardian and Shield, and most never complained | 5 |
| Consumer prices | Court finds 13 of 14 Coles Down Down tickets misled, and points to 12 weeks as the test | 5 |
| Banking | HSBC Australia's $35 million scam penalty covers five separate failures, not one | 7 |
| Superannuation | Mercer Super fined $10.3 million for eight investigations it reported late or never at all | 6 |
| Markets and regulation | Record $300.2 million in CFD penalties, and the two firms profited when clients lost | 6 |
| Credit | Snaffle charged interest on the full contract price, not the balance, across 38,562 contracts | 6 |
| Banking | Westpac penalised $26 million after 1,013 online hardship applications went astray | 6 |
| Notices | Burj Global Power 100 gala held in Shanghai, with Sukh Sandhu among those recognised | 5 |
| Notices | Sukh Sandhu announces one million Facebook followers | Notice |
| Notices | Sukh Sandhu appointed to the Forttuna Education Council Global Advisory Board | 6 |
| Opinion | Being right is worth less than being remembered kindly | Comment |
| Opinion | Paid parental leave is not a reason to have a child | Comment |
| Opinion | The decade that tests you is usually the decade that changes you | Comment |
| US politics | A senator has put the USS Abraham Lincoln allegations in writing, and the Navy's denial is now specific | 10 |
| US politics | Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan for the Democratic left, and in the same nine days it lost Wisconsin and St Louis | 9 |
| US politics | DNC's 2028 calendar opens in South Carolina and puts New Hampshire third, with $18.5 million of debt | 6 |
| Voting and elections | Filed 27 July, briefed since 3 August: the Supreme Court has not ruled on the mail ballot order | 8 |
| Europe | France's Constitutional Council voided the under-15 social media ban on breadth and on age checks | 7 |
| Middle East | Israel's defence minister ordered law enforcement over West Bank settlers handed to the police | 6 |
| Australian politics | NSW's biggest gun buyback in three decades starts on 2 November and the price list is published | 5 |
| Asia-Pacific | South Korea's president has offered to negotiate an end to the Korean War, and Pyongyang has said nothing back | 8 |
| Foreign policy | Trump says he will declare the strait of Hormuz US territory, but no legal instrument exists | 8 |
| Courts and the law | Two federal courts found the White House ballroom unauthorised by Congress; it is now at the Supreme Court | 8 |
| Law and religion | Arizona's top court says churches, not judges, decide what clergy must report about abuse | 9 |
| Hate crime and religious communities | Australia logs steepest antisemitism rise in J7 report built from seven incompatible counts | 9 |
| Faith and regulation | Charity regulator removes church's sole trustee after £652,030 of Gift Aid went unevidenced | 8 |
| Church governance | Clergy Conduct Measure gains Royal Assent, repealing the Church of England's 2003 discipline law | 12 |
| Planning and heritage | Lakemba Mosque returns to Sydney planning panel after 2025 refusal of prayer loudspeakers | 8 |
| Religion and law | Nigerian appeal court upholds a school hijab ban because the school takes no state subvention | 8 |
| Law and religion | Northern Ireland MLAs vote 57 to 24 to abolish the UK's last blasphemy offences | 9 |
| Church and state | Texas classrooms must post the Ten Commandments after a nine to eight appeals court ruling | 10 |
| Census and belief | Two rival polls put Australia's 'no religion' count 28 points apart before the 2026 census | 8 |
| Conscience and the law | US Supreme Court leaves standing the rule that state law can defeat a religious exemption at work | 9 |
| Religious freedom | US Supreme Court rules Rastafarian prisoner cannot sue guards who shaved his dreadlocks | 7 |
| AI and research integrity | AI agents re-ran the 168 top papers at a machine learning conference; eight held up above 80 per cent | 8 |
| Global health | Bundibugyo Ebola passed 2,000 deaths in 86 days, and the one licensed vaccine does not target it | 8 |
| Publishing and retractions | Elsevier has retracted 120 papers from a biology journal whose output doubled in a single year | 8 |
| How science works | Reviewers now finish 1.7 times faster than in 2007, but it takes eight invitations to get two | 8 |
| Research integrity and bioethics | A False Claims Act case against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa is now unsealed | 8 |
| Science | AI-designed viruses clear peer review, then an independent check finds them close relatives of the natural original | 11 |
| Science policy and research funding | About half the money in the terminated NIH grants had already been spent when they were cancelled | 6 |
| Science | Arizona physicists shift the quantum noise inside a light pulse, and watch it move in real time | 4 |
| Space science and policy | Artemis II flew four people 252,756 miles from Earth in April, but the first landing is now Artemis IV in 2028 | 8 |
| Astronomy and planetary science | Isotopes in comet 3I/ATLAS point to an old, metal poor star, with very wide error bars | 5 |
| Astronomy | Nature names MoM-BH*-1, but the black hole star idea dates to March 2025 and is still contested | 10 |
| Physics and cosmology | STAR sees twice the baryons the quark picture predicts, in a paper first posted in August 2024 | 7 |
| Early years | Australia rebuilt childcare regulation in a year, but cannot yet measure whether it worked | 10 |
| Volunteering and civic participation | Australia's formal volunteering rate holds at 22.6 per cent while volunteer hours climb to 618 million | 7 |
| Mental health and wellbeing | Australians seeing friends weekly fell from 68 to 53 per cent, ABS 2025 survey finds | 10 |
| Cities and transport | Canberra put $3.8b more into Melbourne's rail loop on evidence the public still cannot see | 11 |
| Ageing and care | Casey social care commission told to report in 2027, a year earlier than its own terms of reference set | 10 |
| Housing and homelessness | England's rough sleeping snapshot found 4,793 on one night. Its own monthly data found 8,010 | 11 |
| Family violence | NSW police recorded 473 coercive control incidents in 18 months and laid 22 charges | 10 |
| Online safety | Ofcom tells social media firms to abandon age inference as Australia's under 16 ban leaks | 10 |
| Gambling regulation | Regulators fined Evolution 4.75m pounds and Keno Victoria $75,000 eight days apart | 9 |
| Museums and public institutions | UK spending watchdog finds national museums stable as 524 local museums closed since 2000 | 8 |
| Food security | UN puts world hunger at 645 million as a healthy diet climbs to 4.28 dollars a day | 10 |
| AI and the law | Anthropic's 1.5 billion dollar settlement covers 482,460 pirated books, not the training that used them | 8 |
| Technology | Apple has handed Siri to Google, and Amazon's Alexa+ has reached Australia | 12 |
| Technology | Apple tells a US court it trained a research model on a books dataset, and calls it fair use | 10 |
| Online safety | Australia's own regulator found more than 81 per cent of under-16s still on social media after the ban | 5 |
| Online safety | Brazil switched off Discord's livestreams on 12 August, before its child law's fines were due to start | 6 |
| Competition and regulation | Brussels fined Google twice on 23 July, 460 million euros over Search and 430 million over Play | 6 |
| Technology | Brussels has child safety cases open against Snapchat, Meta and TikTok, but not YouTube or the app stores | 10 |
| Technology | ChatGPT's app platform is sending its partners little traffic | 11 |
| Cybersecurity | Companies are still discovering they were caught in the 2025 Oracle and Red Hat breaches | 12 |
| Security | Conduent's breach count went from 4.3 million to 62.2 million in eight months of filings | 7 |
| AI and the law | EU deferred the AI Act's high-risk rules to 2027 and 2028 but left the 2 August labelling duties standing | 7 |
| Technology | Google Announces the Pixel 11 Pro Fold as Its Predecessor's IP68 Claim Remains in Question | 12 |
| Technology | Google's Gemini camera features reached Australia in April, and nearly all of them sit behind the top subscription tier | 12 |
| Competition and regulation | Google's search remedies have bound it since 3 February, and the government is not appealing on Chrome | 7 |
| Cybersecurity | Investigators now blame Russian hackers for the Jaguar Land Rover shutdown, not the crew that claimed it | 11 |
| Technology | MIT's AI supercomputer has fallen 36 places in the world rankings without getting any slower | 8 |
| Technology | Meta's display glasses never left the United States, and its cheapest AI glasses now start at $469 in Australia | 13 |
| Technology | Most Australian under-16s are still using social media, the regulator's own evaluation finds | 11 |
| AI and the law | Munich court found six songs sit inside Suno's model, then applied US law and rejected fair use | 6 |
| Technology | Samsung's Micro RGB Went From One $30,000 Television to a Range Starting at $1,599 | 10 |
| Security | ShinyHunters is named in Canvas, Carnival, Medtronic and RingCentral, and Google says it was not a vendor flaw | 9 |
| Security | The 275 million figure in the Canvas breach comes from the attackers, and it may not count people at all | 7 |
| Semiconductors | The AI memory squeeze reached official price statistics in July 2026, but not the headline inflation rate | 8 |
| Competition and regulation | The CMA found Apple's WebKit rule holds back rival browsers, then put the remedy in its slower queue | 8 |
| Semiconductors | The H200 opening to China carries a 50 per cent compute cap and lab testing of every shipment | 7 |
| Cybersecurity | The argument has moved from AI writing the phishing email to AI running the intrusion | 10 |
| AI policy | The order against state AI laws produced a first intervention arguing equal protection, not preemption | 8 |
| Technology policy and regulation | eSafety's own report shows five million accounts gone and most under 16s still on social media | 5 |
| Courts and regulators | A Stockholm court put Google's Shopping bill at 14.3 billion kronor and found the abuse ran past 2017 | 9 |
| Europe and elections | A rival party sued and Russia's Supreme Court struck Yabloko's list, not its district candidates | 7 |
| Migration | Ceuta arrival counts range from 40,000 to 75,000 and reported deaths from 67 to more than 80 | 9 |
| Disasters | Colombia's deadliest earthquake since 1999 was 110 kilometres deep, and that spread the damage | 12 |
| Human rights | Lebanon abolished the death penalty on 11 August 2026, the second Arab League state to do it, after Djibouti | 9 |
| Climate and energy | Romania lost all its nuclear power on 13 August after the Danube fell three centimetres too low | 6 |
| Media and antitrust | Sixty six jurisdictions cleared the Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. A US court has it frozen | 8 |
| Science | Spain's longest totality on 12 August was about 1 minute 50 seconds, not the 2 minutes 18 quoted | 9 |
| International law | The General Assembly backed the World Court's climate opinion 141 to 8, but the reparation test is narrow | 8 |
| Middle East | The Hormuz safe route is an Iran to Oman arrangement, and tankers are still being hit | 10 |
| Science | The Nature black hole star paper was posted as a preprint 17 months earlier, and rivals dispute it | 9 |
| Security and alliances | Turkey's foreign minister says the Mecca pact copies NATO's committees, not its nuclear cover | 11 |
| Disasters | Venezuela's official quake toll is 6,301, and its official missing count is still 157 from June | 9 |
| International law | World Court ends a fourteen year ILO deadlock: Convention 87 protects the right to strike, ten to four | 10 |