the daily brief

• Trump shared an image on Truth Social depicting the Strait of Hormuz as a newly added US territory, marked "NEW" alongside Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands — al jazeera
• US Central Command said internationally recognized shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz have been cleared of Iranian sea mines, and that Iran has exported no oil since Washington resumed its naval blockade in mid-July — abc news
• Qatar and Iran discussed an interim framework for a temporary joint shipping corridor through the strait, alongside a joint project to clear mines from the waterway — abc news
• Iran executed another protester over the deadly 2026 Isfahan unrest, as rights groups warn of forced confessions and death sentences being used to stifle dissent — euronews
• Russia's Pacific Fleet conducted a Bastion missile test days after Putin's visit to the Kuril Islands; Tokyo summoned Russia's ambassador and Washington voiced support for Japanese sovereignty over the disputed chain — euronews
• An hours-long Russian aerial barrage hit Kyiv on August 27; Ukraine's air force shot down seven Iskander-M or North Korean-built KN-23 ballistic missiles, while a drone attack knocked out power across occupied Donetsk and Luhansk and Russian strikes hit Kyiv-region postal warehouses three times — rbc-ukraine
• Sweden announced it will transfer 10 high-speed boats to Ukraine for mine-clearance and rescue operations — rbc-ukraine
• Liberia said it will accept up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the US over the coming year — euronews
• The UN Convention to Combat Desertification's COP17 summit concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, after two weeks bringing together 196 countries and the EU on land degradation and drought — euronews

• A SemiAnalysis deep dive detailed OpenAI's custom inference chip "Jalapeño," developed with Broadcom and taped out in just 16 months on TSMC's N3P process — it hits 13.4 PFLOPs of MXFP4 at 700W and 700+ tokens/sec/user on DeepSeek R1, with OpenAI's own benchmarks claiming 1.5–1.9x more work per watt than Nvidia across multiple models — openai
• OpenAI reportedly believes it has fixed the product and operational failures that allowed Anthropic to seize pole position in the AI race — aiweekly
• Nvidia's contract server builders have told Microsoft, Google and Oracle that AI server system prices will rise more than 15% on shipments starting in early 2027 — aiweekly
• Anthropic is pitching investors on an IPO and has signed onto the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) code, adding C2PA marks and watermarks to Claude's output — aiweekly
• Medical AI tools are increasingly transcribing patient visits, answering doctors' questions and analyzing scans — raising both benefits and new risks, researchers say — sciencedaily

• Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 106% year-over-year, with earnings of $2.22 per share, and guided for $105.8–110.6 billion in Q3 revenue, above the $104.8 billion analysts expected; it held gross margin at 75% but flagged a dip next quarter from rising memory costs, and guided to roughly 70% revenue growth for 2027 — nearly double what analysts had modeled — motley fool
• Nvidia shares jumped almost 10% to near $230, pushing the company's market capitalization back above $5.5 trillion — forbes
• The Nvidia rally lifted the broader market — the Nasdaq rose 1.43%, the S&P 500 gained 0.68% and the Russell 2000 added 0.35% — with CrowdStrike and Salesforce also strengthening on the software side — schwab

• Fenerbahçe beat Lyon 2-1 away (3-2 on aggregate) to reach the Champions League league phase, ending a 17-year absence from Europe's top club competition — türkiye today
• Ultra-processed foods make up a large share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry a serious additional health risk specifically for men — sciencedaily
• Vitamin C does not prevent most colds, contrary to claims popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling — sciencedaily
• Coral records suggest climate change is strengthening El Niño — sciencedaily
• Scientists detected a mysterious gravitational-wave background that may preserve clues to how the universe's first supermassive black holes formed — sciencenews
• Türkiye is hosting 200 young delegates from domestic and international universities for a six-day simulation of UN climate negotiations ahead of COP31 — türkiye today
• A total lunar eclipse on August 27–28 was the last major one until the end of 2028 — türkiye today

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