the daily brief

• Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Egypt for the first time in a decade, a trip seen as illustrating China's growing regional ambitions as US influence is strained by the war in Iran — wikipedia
• US Vice President JD Vance said he is "extremely skeptical" that a US strike hit a wedding party in Iran, and declined to call the six-month conflict a "war" — cbs news
• The six-month US-Iran war has spiked oil prices, roiled the global economy, and is creating political problems for Trump's party ahead of November's midterm elections — wikipedia
• Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge to dismiss the drug-trafficking indictment against them, arguing they retain immunity as former head of state and first lady — wikipedia
• Russia made a net territorial gain in Ukraine over the past four weeks, though estimates diverge sharply between OSINT groups — 5 square miles per Ukraine's DeepState versus 40 per the ISW — both suggesting a slower pace than the previous month's 13-square-mile gain — russia matters
• A court in Türkiye's Kahramanmaraş province opened the trial of the parents of the attacker behind a deadly school shooting that shocked the country — türkiye today

• Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, bringing the widely used open AI model and dataset platform under the chipmaker's ownership — yahoo finance
• Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a 48-page complaint against Anthropic and its founders personally, seeking damages of up to $150,000 per song — aitoolsrecap
• CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, a dual-model agentic security system in which "Red Tempest" — trained on 15 years of incident-response data — probes for attack paths while "Blue Solano" patches them — aitoolsrecap

• Dell reported blowout fiscal Q2 results: $46.97 billion in revenue, up 58% year-over-year, including $16.4 billion in AI server revenue and record AI orders of $60.9 billion; management raised full-year revenue guidance by $25 billion to $192 billion — aitoolsrecap
• Snowflake shares soared more than 20% after a blowout quarter — yahoo finance
• Campbell's shares fell more than 8% after the soup and snacks company issued a weaker-than-expected annual outlook — yahoo finance
• Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he would lean toward holding interest rates steady absent a major inflation surprise — yahoo finance
• The ISM services index rose to 55.4, up 1.3 points from July and above the 54.1 consensus estimate — yahoo finance

• New Mexico's Elephant Butte Reservoir, the state's largest, plunged to just 1.4% of capacity in July after years of extreme drought and record early snowmelt — sciencedaily
• Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers found a surprising twist: the supply of neutral hydrogen needed to make new stars has barely declined — sciencedaily
• Human microglia — immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits — take four to eight years to mature, compared with just weeks in mice — sciencedaily
• A study of people over 90 found dementia risk remains strongly shaped by sex, race and genetics, with women and Black participants facing notably higher risk — sciencedaily
• Türkiye's men's volleyball team opened its Euro 2026 preparations with a win over Denmark, and the country climbed to 9th in FIBA's world basketball rankings after its 8-0 run — türkiye today
• Musicians from London's Royal Opera House are giving their first-ever concerts in Türkiye, performing in an Aegean resort town on September 4–5 — türkiye today

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