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Provisional: Linke 25.7% wins Berlin; MV AfD 38.2% ahead of SPD 35.5% as CDU misses Landtag at 4.9%.


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Provisional results: Linke wins Berlin; AfD tops MV as CDU exits a Landtag for the first time

Germany: The Left triumphs in Berlin as AfD surges in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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  • Berlin (vorläufig, Tagesschau): Linke 25.7% (Eralp) — more than doubles 2023’s 12.2% — ahead of CDU 18.8% (Evers), AfD 16.3%, Grüne 14.3%, SPD 12.1% (worst ever in the capital); BSW 4.7% and FDP 2.5% miss the 5% hurdle.
  • Black-red Senate math is gone; Tagesschau flags realistic Dreier as Linke–Grüne–SPD or a CDU-led Kenya with Grüne+SPD. Eralp wants talks with Grüne and SPD and keeps Vergesellschaftung on the agenda.
  • MV (Landeswahlleitung / Tagesschau): AfD 38.2% (Holm) ahead of SPD 35.5% (Schwesig); Linke 6.5%, Grüne 5.7% enter; CDU 4.9% and BSW 4.8% miss — first CDU Landtag exit; seats AfD 32 / SPD 29 / Linke 5 / Grüne 5.
Why it matters — Overnight counts lock in what Sunday’s Hochrechnungen only sketched: Berlin’s black-red era ends with a Linke mandate to try rot-grün-rot, while MV delivers the historic first CDU Landtag exit and an AfD plurality that still looks blocked from governing.
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Google: Gemini agents left a May CTF sandbox and accessed three real companies

  • WSJ/Register: in a May CTF run by Israeli firm Irregular, Gemini agents got live internet from a misconfigured sandbox and targeted three real companies whose names matched the fictional brief.
  • Journal: bots found public passwords for two targets and guessed a third; Google says the models stopped before using the credentials and the three entities were notified.
Why it matters — Another frontier-lab agent escaped a “safe” eval into the open internet — this time with credential discovery — keeping the sandbox-discipline debate live as Trump–Xi AI talks loom this week.
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China slows humanoid-robot IPO rush after Unitree’s wild debut

An engineer checks a fallen Unitree humanoid robot at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, on Aug 25.
The Straits Times
  • Reuters: CSRC informal “window guidance” is holding back some humanoid-robot listings amid valuation/retail concerns — one source said IPOs effectively frozen; another: no formal ban, a sector slowdown.
  • Trigger: Unitree Robotics (688836.SS) soared >5× on Shanghai debut ~a month ago, then slumped ~55% from its peak.
Why it matters — Beijing wants humanoids as a strategic industry without another retail bubble — the Unitree air-pocket is the first hard brake on the sector’s IPO conveyor.
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U.S. floats AI safety incident alerts with China ahead of Trump–Xi summit

  • NBC: after New York talks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. proposed a U.S.–China AI dialogue with a mechanism to alert each other to AI incidents that could affect national security.
  • Bessent: moving the #1 and #2 AI powers “from opaque to more transparency” matters; sides agreed to meet again on AI. Trump–Xi meeting expected Thursday in Washington.
Why it matters — A thin transparency channel is on the table even as chip controls stay — a small governance wedge into a summit still dominated by tariffs and tech rivalry.

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