🛑 Dongsha Water Cannon 🛑 Taiwan’s Coast Guard just put a water cannon on a Chinese fishing boat that would not leave Dongsha. Thursday around 11 a.m., the Dongsha-Nansha branch picked up an unidentified boat about 15.5 nautical miles northeast of Dongsha Island, roughly 5.5 miles inside prohibited waters. The 4,000-ton patrol ship Yunlin went out. By about 3 p.m. it found two Chinese boats, Yue Hui Dong Yu 75066 and Jin Sha, anchored and fishing about 27 nautical miles east of the island, about 8 miles inside restricted waters. Yue Hui Dong Yu weighed anchor and left. Jin Sha did not. Three radio warnings failed, so Yunlin fired the water cannon for 30 seconds from about 200 meters. Still nothing. The ship closed in and sprayed the wheelhouse for 90 seconds, keeping the stream off the crew on deck, which is the Coast Guard’s low-lethal playbook. Jin Sha finally moved, then lost power on the way out. Yunlin stayed with the boat, handed over 35 hot meals when the crew asked, towed it clear of restricted waters overnight, and around 6:15 a.m. Friday passed it to the Chinese work vessel Haiyang Shiyou 681. Dongsha sits about 450 kilometers southwest of Kaohsiung with roughly 300 Coast Guard personnel on station. Through August this year, local reporting put Chinese fishing-boat expulsions at 411. Beijing keeps sending boats into waters Taipei controls, then acts shocked when the cannon comes out.

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 The SEC's tokenization innovation exemption has been further delayed, possibly tied to ongoing back-and-forth over the Clarity Act's tokenization section, per Eleanor Terrett. 🔹 VanEck says Bitcoin is "approaching a cyclical bottom," with near-bottoming signs that may warrant investors beginning to scale back in. 🔸 Trump-backed World Liberty Financial delays plans to sell a digital token tied to a Maldives resort, as the Iran war disrupts regional travel, per Bloomberg. 🔹 Elon Musk discloses a 48.4% stake in SpaceX, worth over $900 billion, per regulatory filing. 🔸 Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake announces the EF is dropping Poseidon in favor of SHA or BLAKE hashes. 🔹 The SEC abruptly canceled Friday’s vote on proposed crypto exemptions for startup fundraising, citing an unforeseen scheduling issue. 🔸 The White House is expected to host crypto and prediction market executives next Wednesday, one day before the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee meeting. 🔹 The S&P 500 hits 7,800 for the first time in history. 🔸 The CFTC will discuss crypto regulation, AI agents and prediction markets at its inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on Aug. 20. 🔹 Japan’s government reportedly backs a BOJ rate hike as soon as next month, per Bloomberg.

P-Zero Research's new TasteVal benchmark measures research taste: how well a model designs experiments and reads their results on eight real AI-development tasks, scored by how much compute it needs compared with human experts (the dashed 1x line). Progress was slow from GPT-4 in 2023 through 2025, then the slope steepened: since December 2025, scores have doubled every 3.0 months. Claude Opus 5.5 now sits at 2.30x the expert baseline, ahead of Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, at roughly 1/30 of the experts' cost per attempt. Research taste is the skill that decides how quickly AI could start improving AI, and this curve is one reason Jack Clark now expects that in 2027 (wrote about that yesterday as well).

P.T. finally has a proper native PC port thanks to developer @smokisevdalisi, and even Kojima approved it The fan-made project has reached version 1.0.1 and runs the original PS4 game natively through a custom C++/Vulkan renderer, no PS4 emulator required. >DLSS 4.5, FSR 3.1/4.1 and XeSS >DLSS/FSR Frame Generation >Ray-traced shadows, AO and reflections >Ultra graphics settings >Higher-resolution textures >Photo Mode and Free Camera >Mods >Experimental third-person mode >Experimental VR support The developer tested it on an RTX 4060 laptop and was getting 100+ FPS at 1080p Ultra You still need your own copy of the original P.T. files, the port doesn’t include Konami’s game data.

P-Video-Edit and P-Video-Edit Draft are in the same performance band on Design Arena. Draft scores 1170 Elo vs 1163 for Standard, while cutting average generation time from 64.1s to 28.5s. That puts P-Video-Edit Draft on the Pareto frontier for preference × speed, as well as price × speed. Benchmark by @DesignArena. 👉 Free Playground: 📚 Documentation: 🧩 API: 🥇 P-Bench: