August 2026
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More than 3 million personnel, at Impact Level 5
The US Department of War said it has launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil. The build is accredited for controlled unclassified information at Impact Level 5 and is meant to serve more than 3 million personnel on planning, policy, logistics and administration.
Nearly 500 times the tokens, utilisation still below 40 per cent
April Li told SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that inference now drives system growth. The figures she presented put token volume at nearly 500 times its 2022 level, data movement at up to 60 per cent of typical system activity, and accelerator utilisation below 40 per cent.
New Delhi keeps the Indus treaty in abeyance after The Hague panel calls it binding
An arbitration panel in The Hague ruled that the 1960 water-sharing treaty between Pakistan and India remains legally binding and that no side may suspend or end it alone, and it barred concrete work above set levels at the Ratle hydroelectric plant in disputed Kashmir. Islamabad welcomed the findings; New Delhi called the tribunal illegally constituted and said its suspension of the treaty stands. India put the treaty in abeyance in April 2025 after gunmen killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir. The restrictions hold until 90 days after a World Bank-appointed neutral expert rules, a decision the court said is expected in July 2027.
PG&E covers almost 48 per cent of 21 billion dollars if the fund is exhausted
PG&E shares fell more than 20 per cent on Monday to a 52-week low of 13.09 dollars as California lawmakers advanced Senate Bill 492 without a bar on insurers suing electric utilities. The Wildfire Fund has about 21 billion dollars of claims-paying capacity, no new money, and PG&E would have to cover almost 48 per cent of it if the fund were exhausted.
The household carried the growth, and on 1 September it takes on 3.60 lira more
Household consumption carried second-quarter growth while government final consumption fell and investment stood still. From 1 September a litre of diesel carries 3.60 lira more tax, and that lands on those same budgets.
Which exam do ChemELLM's accuracy numbers come from?
The ChemELLM 3.0 Pro announcement gives two accuracy rates and two improvement percentages, while the name, coverage and scoring rule of the evaluation system behind them stay unstated. Reading those numbers as a measure of capability depends first on showing which questions were asked.
Augmont Enterprises opens at 956 rupees, a 21.32 per cent premium on the BSE
Augmont opened at 956 rupees on the BSE and 961 rupees on the NSE against an issue price of 788 rupees, premiums of 21.32 per cent and 21.95 per cent. It raised 8.25 billion rupees, 6.2 billion fresh issue and 2.05 billion offer for sale. Beejapuri Dairy, parent of Country Delight, will begin bank pitches within 7 to 10 days. The sale, mixing new shares and a holder sale, could raise 200 to 300 million dollars within 12 to 18 months, pending board approval.
Bangladesh prepares a two-plus-two dialogue with China as Teesta returns to the table
Humaiun Kobir said a two-plus-two diplomacy and defence dialogue with China is being prepared for the near future, with no dates fixed. Ambassador Yao Wen discussed the Teesta River project, a China-Myanmar-Bangladesh corridor, a China industrial zone and Mongla Port modernisation. Kobir reaffirmed the One China policy two months after Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's China visit. About 10 Nepali and about 12 Chinese officials met in Kathmandu on May 27 on glacier and flood hazards; Nepali officials later said they still lacked the data they wanted.
Brent crude trades at 90.07 dollars after weekend US and Iranian strikes
Brent crude traded at 90.07 dollars on Monday morning, up 2.24 per cent, and West Texas Intermediate at 85.02 dollars, up 1.94 per cent, after US forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island near Hormuz and Iran fired eight missiles at US bases in Jordan, all intercepted. Kharg Island handles about 90 per cent of Iran's oil exports. Gulf inflation stayed muted in June and July despite oil and gas swings from the conflict, with Saudi Arabia at 1.8 per cent in July.
Broadcom launches VMware Private AI Cloud for on-premises inference
Broadcom introduced VMware Private AI Cloud at VMware Explore to run inference, agent applications and traditional workloads on one private cloud. Its foundation is VMware AI Factory. The company says customers can run more than 150 models on premises. Microsoft's Foundry model router spreads requests by cost, quality or latency and has expanded from 2 regions to 28 for global standard deployments and to 21 for data zone deployments, adding Claude Opus 4.8 and the GPT-5.6 family.