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Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

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8/23/2026 · 1 min read · 30 views

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Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)

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8/23/2026 · 1 min read · 29 views

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Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities (Telegraph)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 29 views

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Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 26 views

Techmeme

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 36 views

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Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 38 views

Techmeme

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (Financial Times)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 40 views

Techmeme

With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model (SemiAnalysis)

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8/21/2026 · 1 min read · 47 views

The Verge

Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent

See our ethics statement.The Echo Dot Max went from $99.99 to $119.99 overnight, while its sibling the Echo Dot jumped…

8/22/2026 · 3 min read · 43 views

Techmeme

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

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8/22/2026 · 1 min read · 46 views

TechCrunch

Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade

If you buy the new Pixel 11 Pro, you might have to proactively tell people that you bought the latest phone, unless…

8/22/2026 · 7 min read · 36 views

Techmeme

Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)

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8/21/2026 · 1 min read · 43 views

Techmeme

Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

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8/21/2026 · 1 min read · 43 views

theregister

Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble

It faces a growing number of roadblocks which, if left unchecked, could pop the bubble. Thus, the AI arms dealer has…

8/21/2026 · 5 min read · 42 views

TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including…

8/21/2026 · 5 min read · 42 views

WIRED

Tesla’s Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet

A handful of crash victims’ families have even filed lawsuits against Tesla, alleging the door handle designs played…

8/21/2026 · 2 min read · 34 views

Techmeme

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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8/21/2026 · 1 min read · 47 views

WIRED

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

For comparison, OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate Project is set to reach only 10 gigawatts of total capacity when it’s…

8/21/2026 · 5 min read · 44 views

theregister

SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in

REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The hospital did…

8/21/2026 · 2 min read · 39 views

Techmeme

Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes last year, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes; Apple paid $43B in corporate income taxes globally (Jamie John/Financial Times)

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8/21/2026 · 1 min read · 42 views

WIRED

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

The inconvenient truth is that a significant portion of the world is not optimistic about the technology they’re…

8/20/2026 · 4 min read · 42 views

The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg bought an Irish castle

The Meta CEO’s real estate portfolio now includes a 440-acre estate in Ireland.by Jay PetersCloseJay PetersSenior…

8/20/2026 · 2 min read · 36 views

TechCrunch

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

In Brief Posted: 12:01 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 Image Credits:Castelion (opens in a new window) Marina Temkin…

8/20/2026 · 2 min read · 42 views

Techmeme

Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

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8/20/2026 · 1 min read · 45 views

TechCrunch

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.

On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. Not even lawyers’…

8/20/2026 · 3 min read · 35 views

TechCrunch

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

As AI continues to kill traffic to websites, Google on Thursday threw a bone to those publishers negatively impacted…

8/20/2026 · 3 min read · 37 views

Techmeme

Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (Newcomer)

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8/20/2026 · 1 min read · 37 views

The Verge

Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis

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8/20/2026 · 6 min read · 45 views

The Verge

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

It caused a huge debate in the math community, and Rob spent some time talking to some of the most accomplished…

8/20/2026 · 29 min read · 40 views

The Verge

This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used

See our ethics statement.by Terrence O'BrienCloseTerrence O'BrienWeekend EditorPosts from this author will be added to…

8/20/2026 · 5 min read · 40 views

The Verge

We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive

Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.The Duskbloods is a world away from the approachable games…

8/20/2026 · 8 min read · 41 views

The Verge

FromSoftware can do anything

Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.There’s something just a little bit different about…

8/20/2026 · 8 min read · 39 views

The Verge

Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect

See our ethics statement.Wi-Fi Motion is an opt-in service from Xfinity that turns your Gateway into a motion-sensing…

8/20/2026 · 5 min read · 42 views

Techmeme

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (Amanda Caswell/Tom's Guide)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 37 views

Techmeme

Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (Reuters)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 41 views

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Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 32 views

Techmeme

Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate (Bloomberg)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 42 views

Techmeme

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 36 views

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Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected (Alan Friedman/PhoneArena)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 30 views

Techmeme

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a "back-to-basics" approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 31 views

Techmeme

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (Bloomberg)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 50 views

Techmeme

Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the "beginning of the singularity", a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY (Axios)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 42 views

The Verge

Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching

As of August 31st, Nielsen’s co-viewing data will now include information obtained from smart-watch like gadgets that…

8/19/2026 · 4 min read · 39 views

TechCrunch

Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far

Have we tried turning off society and turning it back on again? We need a complete cultural reset, because there are…

8/19/2026 · 3 min read · 41 views

TechCrunch

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

Despite its technological progress, AI’s reputation out in the real world is getting worse. On Wednesday, Axios…

8/19/2026 · 5 min read · 41 views

TechCrunch

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

Several security researchers say OpenAI suddenly revoked their access to a limited-access program that removes some…

8/19/2026 · 3 min read · 41 views

TechCrunch

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new study tools across Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive…

8/19/2026 · 3 min read · 38 views

The Verge

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.As we’re gearing up for…

8/19/2026 · 3 min read · 43 views

Techmeme

Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic (Bloomberg)

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8/19/2026 · 1 min read · 41 views

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A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer

Laika Studios released an extended teaser in May, which racked up over 90 million views. And now we’ve got the…

8/19/2026 · 2 min read · 37 views