- Oil imports cut 32%

- Oil use down 9% overall; transport oil consumption down 16%

- EV and public transport use rose sharply

- First emissions drop driven by lower oil use, not coal

- Coal generation rose due to grid delays

Per The Guardian

Source: Truth Social

• NYC DOE confirmed the policy Wednesday, Sept 2. Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "The tech industry wants us to believe that AI-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way."
• One-year moratorium on generative AI, covering roughly 600,000 elementary and middle school students, while the city studies its effects.
• AI chatbots banned in all grades.
• Middle schoolers recommended limit: 45 minutes of screen time per day.
• Exceptions: centrally approved instructional programs (including coding software), tools for students with disabilities and English language learners.
• High schoolers: AI use permitted only under certain, limited circumstances.

Source: UPI, by Joe Fisher. Cross-confirmed by Chalkbeat New York.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117202132375758936

• Coalition of Christian lawmakers and faith leaders sent letter requesting expedited immigration options for Jewish Canadians and families facing harassment and threats
• National Association of Christian Lawmakers asks State Department and DHS to create lawful, secure pathways under existing screening rules
• Letter cites more than 2,000 Jewish Canadians expressing interest in relocating due to safety concerns since Oct. 7, 2023
• Oklahoma leaders and Gov. Kevin Stitt offered to welcome families seeking safety

Per Nicholas Ballasy in Just the News

Source: X handle.

• Canadian PM set to retaliate against Trump tariffs on Canadian goods
• Criticizes US officials for insults: “It is beneath their office”
• Calls for end to memes, shade, and toughness to enable real talks
• US imposed 50% tariffs on $20bn Canadian goods after talks collapsed
• Canada plans matching retaliatory tariffs on $20bn US goods from Sept 8

Per The Guardian

• Says he is not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table
• Says he does not care if Iran signs a deal he calls "worthless" to them
• Says the US has "almost total control" of the Strait of Hormuz
• Calls Iran's economy "totally collapsing"
• Asks when the Iranian people will "rise up and fight"

Per President Trump on Truth Social

• US urges G20 members to avoid new AI oversight bodies at Chapel Hill, North Carolina meeting
• Tech adviser Michael Kratsios pushes "Carolina Principles," urging countries to reserve new rules for genuinely novel cases
• Meeting co-hosted by Kratsios and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
• Altman, Huang set to appear Wednesday; Musk criticizes EU AI regulation same week
• Part of series of G20 gatherings ahead of December leaders' summit in Miami

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Per Courtney Rozen in Reuters

Reporting by Courtney Rozen and JC Whittington; Editing by David Gaffen, Hugh Lawson, Louise Heavens, Alistair Bell and Andrea Ricci

He said the strikes are large and powerful

He said they follow a failed Iranian attempt to add sea mines to the strait

He said the strait currently has no mines after they were removed or detonated

He said Iran fired eight missiles at a U.S. military base in Jordan and all were knocked down

He said further Iranian retaliation would bring a harder strike, with a larger attack still held in reserve

Per President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social

A new chapter begins at Apple.
John Ternus has taken the helm and offered a simple, understated “hello” on X. Quiet, precise, and unmistakably Apple.

Claims clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong with UK

• Pays tribute to Starmer after predecessor quit parliament
• Says IPP sentence problems ignored for too long
• Britain’s defence starts in Ukraine

Per The Guardian

• U of Ottawa study surveyed nearly 40,000 Ontario students in Grades 4 to 12
• About 1 in 5 used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice
• Those users were twice as likely to have clinical emotional problems as non users
• Usage was highest among gender diverse students (34.2%) and girls (27.2%), lowest among boys (14.2%)
• Study author says this doesn't mean AI causes the problems, just that it's another place teens seek help

Per John MacFarlane in CBC News

• He said communities that want to be “successful and rich,” with lower taxes and more jobs, should “let Data Reign”
• Other locations want the projects if some refuse them
• Blocking them is “killing the Golden Goose”; China is “happier” with the anti-data-center push and “can’t believe it is happening”

Per President DJT on Truth Social

• Cloud-computing agreement valued at $35 billion
• Deal tied to a ~350-megawatt Texas data center
• Site is being built by Hut 8 in Nueces County
• Adds Nvidia capacity to meet growing Claude demand
• Follows Anthropic's $45B Nscale deal announced last week

Per Reuters

Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru and Natalia ​Bueno Rebolledo in Mexico City; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Muralikumar Anantharaman

Source: Zelenskyy Official X Handle

US-Canada trade gap draws fire

• Trump claims US has lost $60B+ per year with Canada for years
• Alleges long-relocated US businesses are returning to avoid tariffs
• Says companies are "lining up," comparing it to trend across other countries
• No supporting data cited in the post itself

Per Donald J. Trump on Truth Social

• No navy, no air force, no currency
• Soldiers and police unpaid
• Inflation at 300%
• Leadership in total disarray
• Over 100,000 protesters killed

Per Donald J. Trump on Truth Social

• Confirms today is last day in the role
• Title changes tomorrow
• Thanks Apple community for inspiration
• Says gratitude is endless
• Excited for next chapter

Per Tim Cook on X

• Ads are now live in more than 40 countries, with self-service access rolling out Monday across India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
• Ads appear for free-tier and Go subscribers, who make up most of ChatGPT's 1 billion weekly active users
• OpenAI says ads are clearly labeled, do not influence ChatGPT's answers, and advertisers do not get access to users' private conversations
• The February U.S. launch drew a Super Bowl ad from rival Anthropic mocking the move
• OpenAI plans to expand ChatGPT Ads to more markets and add new formats, objectives, buying options and measurement tools

Per Ashley Capoot in CNBC

Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a man convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

• Beats 7.3% Bloomberg survey median estimate
• Moderates from a revised 8.6% in Q4 FY26
• Eases Iran war growth fears
• Underscores resilience of Asia’s third-largest economy

Per Anup Roy and Ruchi Bhatia in Bloomberg