the daily brief

• Iran's September 3 missile and drone attacks on Kuwait and the UAE did not hit any facility housing American forces, according to US officials — globalsecurity.org
• The IDF said it took "operational control" of the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon — a position Iran had reportedly warned Washington would trigger a large-scale attack on Israel — globalsecurity.org
• Vice President Vance said there will be no talks with Tehran until it stops shooting at commercial shipping — globalsecurity.org
• Ukraine has been targeting Iranian shipping since late July in retaliation for Iran's drone and missile support to Russia's war effort — wikipedia
• Iraqi oil exporters have been trucking crude from southern refineries to Syria's Baniyas port since April, an improvised workaround for the Strait of Hormuz shutdown — wikipedia

• Anthropic detailed its work developing enterprise frontier safeguards together with its customers — anthropic
• OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and declared the arrival of the "AGI era," with users showcasing the model generating complex 3D games and outperforming medical professionals on diagnostic tests — artificialintelligence-news
• Tesla put wheel-free Cybercabs on the streets of Austin, almost immediately drawing a federal safety probe — techstartups
• Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model it says is faster, more accurate and cheaper than rivals from OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs, priced at $0.10 per audio hour — down about 72% from five months ago — and covering 60 languages with diarization and word-level timestamps — techstartups
• Neocloud provider Crusoe reached a $30 billion valuation — techstartups
• The US Congress moved to inventory federal agencies' "rogue" AI agents — techstartups
• A Saudi lab released a 428-billion-parameter Arabic-language model built on Chinese open weights — techstartups

• The US added 162,000 jobs in August, far above the 55,000 consensus estimate, while unemployment held steady at 4.1% — motley fool
• Stocks fell as the strong jobs data revived hawkish Fed expectations: the Dow dropped 0.67%, the S&P 500 slid 0.50% and the Nasdaq fell 0.44% — thestreet
• Futures markets raised the implied odds of a September rate hike to roughly 58%, up from about 50% the day before — thestreet
• Next week's CPI and PPI reports are now seen as decisive for whether the Fed hikes or holds at its September meeting — thestreet
• Lululemon tumbled 18% on declining revenue and a cut to its outlook — motley fool

• A substance found in edible sea squirts appeared to reverse several signs of aging in older mice — plasmalogen supplements improved memory and learning, strengthened connections between brain cells, and reduced inflammation — sciencedaily
• Duke researchers developed an injectable scaffold that helped stroke-damaged brains grow new blood vessels, support nerve regrowth and recover movement in mice — sciencedaily
• Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks, by changing heart activity and increasing the brain's sensitivity to rewards — sciencedaily
• Researchers developed a "BioTAK score" to help distinguish "broken heart syndrome" from an actual heart attack — sciencedaily
• Scientists overturned a leading explanation for why male and female bonnethead sharks have differently shaped heads, finding both sexes actually begin with more pointed heads — sciencedaily

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