Millions of cars are under recall for catching fire while parked
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The big picture: Park-outside recalls are becoming a bigger issue for automakers and drivers as vehicles add more electrical systems, battery technology, and software-controlled components. For drivers, the warnings can mean months of inconvenient parking habits while manufacturers work to provide repairs.
In the first seven months of 2026, the NHTSA issued 17 park-outside recall campaigns affecting about 1.7 million vehicles.
The facts about AI companies destroying books

Anthropic bought millions of physical books to train its AI chatbot Claude. Here are the facts about the books that were ‘destructively scanned.’
US urged to follow China’s lead in treating data as an economic asset

Vincent Chow in Washington
As China deepens the commercialisation of its vast troves of data, the United States needs to develop its own national data strategy that treats data as an economic asset to better position itself to prevail in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics, a key US congressional advisory body has said.
In a report published on Tuesday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) warned that the US risks ceding global



