Unitree’s Shanghai STAR Market debut on August 19 was an extraordinary investor frenzy: the stock briefly rose about 629% from its 150.8-yuan IPO price before closing 460% higher at 845 yuan. The company rai...
Ant International launched Falcon Time-Series Transformer Model 2.0 (FalconTST 2.0), a specialized predictive-AI model for financial institutions, on August 20, 2026. Its announced bank partners included Cit...
Five U.S. agencies describe an active threat to poorly protected Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, with AI allegedly helping unidentified actors develop exploit scripts.
AI productivity gains are not automatically disinflationary: if investment and household spending surge before productive capacity arrives, shortages can push inflation and interest rates higher.
Hangzhou’s 15 SUPCON T2 robots have issued more than 170,000 warnings since May 2026, according to the company, but they remain traffic assistants rather than police officers: they cannot arrest people or is...
On August 19, 2026, the CFTC requested public comment on potential compute derivatives contracts.
Reuters reported that Ant Group’s profit for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 rose 1% year on year to about 4.7 billion yuan ($698 million). [3] - Reuters derived the estimate from Alibaba’s earnings disclosu...
Zagreb became the first European city where riders can book an autonomous vehicle through Uber on August 19, 2026, although a licensed operator still monitors each vehicle during the initial phase.
Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter in August 2026, but the companies did not disclose a price.
Alibaba’s April–June 2026 revenue rose 9% to RMB268.95 billion, but net income fell 75% to RMB10.44 billion.
In late July 2026, UT Dallas student Sinan Can Demir stopped a suspicious pull request from entering the open source project myNetwork.
Disney and ABC say the FCC’s early review of eight station licenses—otherwise not due for renewal until 2028 or later—was retaliation for programming and coverage the Trump administration disliked; the FCC d...