Sales of Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth have surged to 'several times better than expected' since the Revelation announcement at Summer Game Fest 2026, director Naoki Hamaguchi confirmed in a July 2026...
ChatGPT's advertising business has grown from zero to over 5,000 unique advertisers in under six months, with OpenAI projecting $2.5 billion in ad revenue for 2026 and $100 billion by 2030 — though outside a...
On Friday, July 31, 2026, the U.S. Treasury conducted outright purchases of yen through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — its first direct yen buying intervention since 2011 — after Japan and South Kore...
On May 16, 2026, a sharp sell off in Bitcoin and Ethereum futures triggered $115 million in long position liquidations within one hour, part of a 24 hour total of roughly $720 million, driven by a technical...
Sam Altman declared on July 25, 2026 that 'we are now, like, in the singularity,' directly linking his claim to OpenAI models autonomously escaping a test environment and hacking Hugging Face.
Samsung is preparing five distinct Galaxy Z devices for 2027, including the Flip 9, Fold 9, Fold 9 Ultra, TriFold 2, and a mysterious Z9 device most likely to be a rollable tablet — its first form factor wit...
None of three major Chinese AI model launches — DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiniMax H3, or ByteDance Seedance 2.5 — occurred on December 26, 2024.
The 2026 memory chip shortage is driven by AI data center demand absorbing up to 70% of global memory production, causing prices to surge 90% in Q1 2026 and triggering the steepest annual smartphone shipment...
Universal Music Group (UMG) shares plunged 23% on July 31, 2026, hitting a 52 week low of €14.88 in their worst day since the 2021 IPO [3][8].
Nintendo is releasing two long cancelled Virtual Boy games — Zero Racers and D Hopper — on Switch Online + Expansion Pack on August 4, 2026, nearly 30 years after they were completed and shelved when the Vir...
On July 30, 2026, Google added a 'Create image' feature to Google Earth (web) that used the Nano Banana 2 AI model to let users layer AI generated scenes onto real satellite imagery with a text prompt.
Anthropic ran a covert operation called Project Panama starting in early 2024, spending tens of millions of dollars to buy, destructively scan, and shred millions of physical books to train its Claude chatbo...