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Weekly review
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The week of 22 Aug 2026 – 28 Aug 2026

26 stories across 3 editions and 7 beats. Nothing below is new reporting — every fact here already ran and is only being synthesised: which of the paper's own declared threads moved, what it asked and what it still owes an answer to, and what it corrected. How this differs from the edited paper →

Threads

3 declared in this archive · 2 moved this week

18 Aug 2026

Grok 4.6, from launch to leak

Quiet this week — 3 instalments total, opened 18 Aug 2026

28 Aug 2026

Anthropic versus the Pentagon

1 new: A federal judge vacates the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic, calling it retaliation

28 Aug 2026

Nvidia's bid for Hugging Face

1 new: Nvidia is reportedly nearing a deal to buy Hugging Face, but nothing is signed

Open questions

2 asked this week · 0 answered this week · 2 still open

Still open, the full ledger

28 Aug 2026

Does the government's expected appeal overturn Judge Lin's ruling, and how does the parallel D.C. Circuit case land?

New · Open 0 days

28 Aug 2026

Does Nvidia's reported $12.9bn acquisition of Hugging Face reach a signed agreement, or fall apart?

New · Open 0 days

Corrections

3 dated this week — may correct a story from an earlier week

28 Aug 2026

The Tom's Hardware citation pointed at a truncated URL that returned 404; the link now carries the full slug ending in "-fractile" and resolves to the article as cited. The desk's error in transcription, caught by the weekly link check. No claim in the story changes.

From the 20 Aug 2026 edition

28 Aug 2026

Business Insider was quoted as saying the talks could still "atomize". The reported wording is "fall apart"; the quotation has been corrected. The desk's error in drafting — a word that was never said should not have appeared inside quotation marks.

From the 28 Aug 2026 edition

28 Aug 2026

The TechCrunch citation pointed at a URL that returns 404. The article is "Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition"; the link and the cited headline have been corrected to match it. Caught by the link check, not by review.

From the 28 Aug 2026 edition