As of August 26, 2026, Jack Barton is a reported—not confirmed—front runner to become the next James Bond.
Google’s August 26, 2026 Gemini Live update lets users describe goals by voice and have Spark coordinate multi step tasks across Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web, including scheduled jobs that can run for da...
Dazed’s August 26 GTA VI feature presents Leonida as a more grounded, responsive world built around fugitives Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos.
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% year over year in Q2 2026 to the lowest second quarter level since 2013, but Apple and Samsung’s 10 leading models captured 26% of unit sales as demand concentrated aroun...
Bitcoin dropped about 4.1%, from $81,238 to $77,870, after reversing its move above $81,000.
CryptoQuant sees Bitcoin in the early phase of a new bull market after a roughly 24% rally, but its signal is not officially confirmed until BTC closes a week above the 365 day moving average near $83,000.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is Google’s new speech to text model and a faster successor to Chirp 3: coverage citing Artificial Analysis reports a 70% reduction in time to final transcription, with 4.0% streaming a...
As of August 26, 2026, Ridley Scott says a sequel to 2017’s Alien: Covenant is in development and will follow David as he creates a “brave new world.” The project is not yet a dated, fully announced producti...
A Ukrainian drone strike overnight on August 26 completely destroyed Wildberries’ logistics center in Kotovsk, Tambov, in the facility’s second attack since July 18.
TamperBench found that all 21 tested open weight models were vulnerable to at least one of nine tampering threats, often without losing more than 10% of MMLU Pro reasoning performance.
Apple has not verified a September 9 event called “Surprise and Shine,” a 10 a.m.
TamperBench found that none of the 21 tested open weight models had safety protections robust enough to withstand the evaluated tampering threats: every model could be made substantially more willing to prod...