Iran publicly accused Qatar on August 15 of holding three captured Su 24 pilots since March 2026; Qatar denies the claim and says it recovered only one pilot's remains.
Global bond yields have surged to their highest since the 2008 financial crisis, with the U.S.
Here is a concise breakdown of the Qusra siege and its wider implications, based on reports from August 9–16, 2026.
Wrinkles is a free AI powered audio tour guide app that uses your phone's location to automatically surface hidden stories about the places around you, launching August 4, 2026 on iOS and Android with 1.3 mi...
SaferAI's independent evaluation of China's open weight GLM 5.2 found it refused 0% of offensive cyber and dual use biology tasks while matching GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on capability, trailing by only 2–...
Anthropic signed a six year, $10 billion cloud computing agreement with Volta Infra Holdings, a startup launched in early 2026, to secure 121 megawatts of Nvidia Vera Rubin compute capacity at a hydropower f...
In its first week, Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance grew from 40 to over 120 member companies, launched the SAFE working group for sharing AI security incidents, and published a public RFC for confidential i...
SpaceX reported Q2 2026 revenue of $7.81 billion, up 92% year over year and well above the $6.9 billion consensus, but posted a net loss of $541 million.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13–15, Moscone West) has four official partner hotels—Hotel Zelos, InterContinental San Francisco, Grand Hyatt San Francisco, and Hyatt Regency San Francisco—offering discounted...
SpaceX spent $329 million on Tesla Megapacks in the first half of 2026, with $295 million of that coming in Q2 alone, to power its Colossus AI superclusters in Greater Memphis, Tennessee.
Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII) began trading on the NYSE on August 13, 2026 at $25/share, giving retail investors access to roughly 80 Y Combinator linked seed stage startups [1][2][3] — but with a 4.18%...
Wispr Flow launched Notetaker on August 5, 2026, a Mac based meeting notetaker that captures system audio without joining the call as a bot, offering live transcription, an AI catch up button, cross meeting...