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Six Nuclear Bills Cleared Committee
Six bipartisan nuclear permitting bills have cleared the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously, one of them 44 to 0.BEV Passed Petrol in August
Battery-electric cars outsold petrol in Australia for the first time in August 2026, with 27,078 sales and 24.9% of the market. BYD was the No. 2 brand.One Nation: let renters and mortgage holders take super as pay
One Nation's plan would let renters and mortgage holders take 3 percentage points of the 12% super guarantee as pay for up to three years.Samsung Left the IFA Floor
Samsung has skipped the main IFA Berlin floor for the first time since 1991, holding its Connect show at Humboldt Carré instead.Xiaomi makes its full IFA exhibitor debut in Berlin
Xiaomi is a full IFA exhibitor for the first time in 2026, showing more than 380 products. It says its platform links more than 1.1 billion devices.Crusoe Hit Thirty Billion
Crusoe has raised more than US$3 billion. The round values it at about US$30 billion, and Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are among its customers.Broadcom Named Anthropic Next
Broadcom says Anthropic is on track to be its biggest custom AI chip buyer in 2027 and 2028. AI chip revenue rose 221% to US$16.7 billion last quarter.NHTSA opens audit of Tesla Cybercab certification on launch day
Same day Cybercab rides began, NHTSA opened AQ26002 into Tesla’s FMVSS certification paperwork.Fremont Builds the First Optimus
Tesla is building Gen 3 Optimus at low volume on Fremont's old Model S/X floor for internal training. Outside sales are aimed at the second half of 2027.Isar Aerospace's Spectrum reaches orbit from Andøya
Isar Aerospace's second Spectrum flight reached orbit from Norway with customer payloads, Europe's first commercial orbital success from the mainland.SpaceX Picked Vera Rubin
Elon Musk called Nvidia's Vera Rubin the best AI computer and said SpaceX will build only on Nvidia as its installed compute grows from 1.4 GW.Eighty Starlinks and Counting
A Falcon 9 was set to fly Starlink Group 15-24 from Vandenberg as SpaceX's 80th Starlink mission of 2026, as Florida Starlink flights shift to Starship.Megapack 3 Rolled in Texas
Tesla's Brookshire Megafactory in Texas started Megapack 3 production on 6 August, designed for 50 GWh a year, with deliveries aimed at late 2026.Electric trucks need megawatt chargers, ARENA report says
AECOM's 2025 report for ARENA says interstate trucks need up to 165 megawatt charging hubs. Fleet EV News puts demand at 11.5 to 16 TWh a year by 2040.Nullarbor EV charger gaps shrink to about 175 to 200 km
EV charger gaps on the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor are now about 175 to 200 km for most legs. The Stuart Highway still has a gap of about 625 km.The uranium left Venezuela
The US Energy Department moved the last 13.5 kg of enriched uranium from Venezuela's RV-1 research reactor to its Savannah River Site, with IAEA help.Wright says the US won't be operator in Venezuela's NABEP deal
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in Caracas that the US government won't be the operator or producer under the NABEP deal.One Nation's Pickering vows to repeal Victoria's nuclear ban
One Nation's Victorian leader Warren Pickering vows to repeal the state's Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983. A national ban is still a hurdle.One Nation's 2022 Victorian page put Princes and Bass first
One Nation's 2022 Victorian election page listed Princes and Bass highway upgrades, a second Bass Strait interconnector and scrapping Metro Link.Vatican theologians publish Caring for Our Common Home
The International Theological Commission's Caring for Our Common Home, authorised by Pope Leo XIV, names sin against creation and the Creator.
