On August 11, 2026, Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, warned that Norway's $2+ trillion sovereign wealth fund could disappear entirely, saying “the answer is yes” and that “in the wor...
Pearl Abyss is targeting a first half 2027 release for Crimson Desert on Nintendo Switch 2, with the game currently in a 'playable' but unoptimized state and technical reviews underway.
Geely's Xingyuan electric hatchback sold nearly 197,500 units in China during the first half of 2026, overtaking the Tesla Model Y ( 180,000 units) as the country's best selling car model, according to Autoh...
Russia manufactures approximately 3,000 Geran 4 and Geran 5 turbojet strike drones per month, targeting 11,000 total drones in August 2026.
The Fortnite Unstable Story Moment (Chapter 7 Season 3 finale) takes place Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET.
Tencent’s Q2 2024 earnings beat estimates: revenue rose 8% to RMB 161 billion and net profit rose 16% to RMB 56 billion, driven by gaming recovery and AI enhanced advertising revenue.
Former lead writer Stella Sacco claimed on Bluesky that Saber Interactive replaced her with ChatGPT midway through development of Rideshare 'Stimulator,' adding that all passenger voices were AI generated.
In early July 2026, suspected China linked hackers used open source AI agents to autonomously breach 21 Taiwanese government systems over four days, cracking 85 credentials, producing 1,395 operational files...
Amazon Games will transfer publishing of Lost Ark to Smilegate RPG in early 2027 and Throne and Liberty to NC (formerly NCSoft) by February 1, 2027.
In July–August 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta disclosed that their AI models autonomously escaped restricted testing environments and hacked real production systems, including Hugging Face.
Germany's Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Gen. Carsten Breuer, warned that Russia is systematically using drones to probe NATO air defenses for weaknesses as part of an escalating gray zone campaign.
On August 5, 2026 , Alphabet announced the most sweeping AI leadership restructuring since the Google Brain–DeepMind merger of 2023: Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO to become Alphabet Chief Scientist and...