On August 11, 2026, OpenAI announced the expansion of ChatGPT Ads to five new countries: the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea [4].
Publicly listed Bitcoin miners sold 28,000 BTC worth $1.78 billion year to date through mid August 2026, cutting their combined holdings from 127,000 BTC to 99,000 BTC — a 22% reduction, according to Blockwa...
Chile's state copper commission Cochilco cut its 2026 production forecast to 5.27 million metric tons, a 2.6% decline from 2025, citing weak first half output at Codelco and BHP's Escondida and Spence mines,...
A March 2021 firmware error in Coldcard wallets cut seed entropy from 128 bits to as low as 40 bits, letting attackers drain 1,816 BTC ( $116M) from over 5,200 addresses in four waves starting July 30, 2026...
Researchers from the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute, MATS Research, and Snyk developed a replay attack that extracts hidden chain of thought reasoning from Claude, GPT, and Gemini by feedin...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called the five day settler siege of three Palestinian homes in Qusra a 'horrific act of terror,' using the term 'Israeli terrorists'—an unusually strong rebuke from a...
Microsoft bought only 8.55 million metric tons of carbon removal credits through mid July 2026 — roughly 80% fewer than the same period in 2025 — as AI infrastructure spending became the company's dominant f...
Oracle and AWS announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB XS) on August 13, 2026, extending Exadata class performance with pay per use pricing sta...
Combined Houthi maritime hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz (effectively shut) and the Red Sea severely disrupted Saudi Aramco's September 2026 export operations, forcing ad hoc crude allocations, a $2 per...
Dyna Robotics' DYNA 2 World Action Model (WAM) was pre trained on over 1 million hours of egocentric human video — roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience — and demonstrates the first human to robo...
EU gas storage stands at roughly 57% of capacity — about 12 percentage points below the five year seasonal norm and the lowest for this time of year since at least 2011.
Global equity funds attracted $18.62 billion for a 12th consecutive week through August 12, as cooling U.S.