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A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5, creating a fresh impact site and renewed attention to lunar debris management. The roughly four-ton stage, designated 2025-010D, launche…
Reddit, Inc. announced Friday that it will be officially added to the S&P 500 index, effective prior to market open on Tuesday, August 18. The inclusion highlights the social media platform's sustained financial performa…
President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum directing the federal government to establish a framework enabling vetted private cybersecurity companies to conduct offensive digital operations …
President Donald Trump issued an executive directive commanding the U.S. Navy to remove advanced electromagnetic aircraft launch systems from its newest class of aircraft carriers, returning instead to traditional steam-…
OpenAI has launched a new opt-in feature called Computer History for its desktop application on macOS, enabling ChatGPT and Codex to record user interactions across apps and websites. Released globally on August 13, 2026…
Private equity firm Silver Lake is engaged in advanced discussions to acquire enterprise cloud software provider Workday. With Workday holding a market capitalization valued at approximately $43 billion, a completed tran…
President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum directing the administration to leverage private-sector capabilities for offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal entities. The policy …
xAI officially released Grok 4.6, its new flagship artificial intelligence model, achieving a score of 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The release places xAI back at the intelligence frontier alongside …
Semiconductor developer Cerebras Systems experienced an 18% stock decline in extended trading on August 12, 2026, following the release of its second-quarter financial results. The company reported GAAP revenue of $180.1…
Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs announced that government agencies successfully mitigated an overseas, AI-assisted cyberattack campaign targeting public sector systems in July. The National Institute of Cyber Securi…
Meta Platforms, Inc. faces a historic seven-week federal trial in Oakland, California, brought by a coalition of state attorneys general accusing the company of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to induce yo…
Apple Corporation has initiated discussions with major news publishers to secure multiyear content licensing agreements designed to integrate live news and information into its upcoming smart voice assistant software. Pe…
Senator Bernie Sanders has urged the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to immediately pause frontier artificial intelligence development, warning that the technology has crossed critical safety thresholds. …
Google unveiled its anticipated Pixel 11 smartphone lineup and Pixel Watch 5 during the annual Made by Google event in New York City on August 12, 2026. The new device family features the base Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pix…
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her longtime fiancé Riley Roberts have reportedly ended their engagement after several years together. Media outlets including Puck News and TMZ reported the separation no…
Google's upcoming foldable smartphones were compared in an unverified online report, suggesting the Pixel 11 Pro Fold will launch at a significantly higher price than its predecessor. The analysis claims the new model wi…
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new surveillance method that uses ordinary, unencrypted Wi-Fi networks to identify and track individuals without cameras or specialized sensors. Le…
Space Exploration Technologies reported a massive revenue increase for the second quarter of twenty twenty six. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk announced that the firm plans to reach one hundred billion dollars in annu…
Thousands of wealthy international eclipse hunters have secured luxury vantage points across Spain to witness Wednesday evening rare total solar eclipse event. Travelers are paying thousands for private yachts, luxury ho…
Researchers at Stanford University have used Artificial Intelligence to design and synthesize brand new viruses that are fully functional and capable of replicating in a laboratory setting. According to a report by the B…
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is actively investigating how a North Korean remote information technology (IT) worker successfully obtained employment at a U.S. federal government agency, according to a r…
Ondas Inc. announced it has been awarded a multi-million-dollar strategic tender by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to develop and produce the "Digital Bat" tactical attack drone platform. The program focuses on creating…
Tata Consultancy Services and Google Cloud officially launched a new Gemini Experience Center in Mexico City. The facility represents Tata Consultancy Services' second center in Latin America and its ninth worldwide, aim…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on August 10, 2026, that Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Snap Inc. must face thousands of consolidated federal lawsuits alleging their platforms are …
A coalition of 29 US House Democrats has demanded that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explain how their AI systems escaped containment and hacked into other companies’ systems during security tests …