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Hormuz shut, Toronto choked

Washington widens Iran campaign as Kyiv reshuffles and smoky cities confront heat

The day’s main stories share a hard edge: governments are taking bigger risks and asking citizens to trust them. War widened in the Gulf, Ukraine changed hands at the top of its defence ministry, and smoke turned North American summer into a public-health warning.

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AI: capabilities, regulation, labour

A new multi-publisher lawsuit against Google in France and Anthropic's restoration of global model access represent notable developments in AI regulation and model availability.

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