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Molly Brooks, US Rates Strategist at TD Securities, discusses how the latest US core inflation data is likely to ease pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. She speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Silicon Data has raised $30.5 million to expand its pricing and performance benchmarks for the rapidly growing AI compute market. CEO Carmen Li joins Bloomberg to discuss the company’s ambition to become an "independent referee" for compute, CME’s planned GPU futures tied to Silicon Data benchmarks, and what its data says about the value and depreciation of older chips. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Blo... View Source

Companies are seeing increasingly meaningful artificial intelligence adoption, but constraints on computing supply remain a bottleneck for growth, according to Morgan Stanley’s Michelle Weaver... View Source

The US government is partnering with private-sector firms to launch cyber attacks abroad, expanding the scope of national security operations that until now have been largely conducted by government agencies... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google's most powerful flagships take aim at Samsung's crown... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. slid in late trading after projected slower growth than some investors anticipated, a sign the company is still in the early stages of popularizing a novel chip design... View Source

The Pixel Tag, Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5 are here... View Source

Cisco Systems Inc. projected $7.5 billion in sales tied to the AI data center boom this fiscal year, disappointing investors who’ve seen the world’s largest networking gear supplier amass $9.3 billion in artificial intelligence-related orders over the past year... View Source

Samsung and Google have increasingly different approaches to folding phones... View Source

Apple Inc. won a one-day reprieve from the Supreme Court Wednesday as Justice Elena Kagan paused proceedings before a California trial court in the iPhone maker’s long-running antitrust feud with Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc... View Source

Fly like a (Tensor) G6... View Source

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is a major release that is by the frontier and competitive with OpenaI GPT 5.6. This is one of the major points on my list of SpaceX Stock Catalysts. Some of the items like Grok 4.7 are adjusted to the new later schedule. SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is on the terminal bench leaderboard ... Read more... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. is warning investors of the time and money it may take to shift from its exclusive use of Nvidia Corp. artificial intelligence chips... View Source

The sparkly cabinet is part of a huge retro tech auction focused on Steve Jobs and the computer revolution... View Source

EQT Infrastructure offered to buy Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd. in a deal that values the Australian listed firm at about A$6.9 billion ($4.9 billion)... View Source

A new lawsuit claims the Truth API violates the First and Fifth Amendments... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Bill Campbell, CME Group Managing Director & Global Head of Metals Jin Hennig, Cava Co-Founder CEO Brett Schulman, Sweetgreen Co-Founder & CEO Jonathan Neman, Bank of America Global Head of... View Source

And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in... View Source

It’s been a century since the Iberian peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in the path of totality... View Source

After leaving Wedbush, Dan Ives has launched a new merchant bank that he says will deliver the same research he's known for, but with people who want to innovate and grow in this "Fourth Industrial Revolution." The wide-ranging conversation touches on AI skepticism, China's role in the AI industry, and why he sees the AI industry going to heights that we may not yet be able to see. (Source: Bloomb... View Source

Take your conversations with the chatbot into the Anthropic browser extension... View Source

Petlibro’s Granary 2 feeder. | Image: Petlibro A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains have gone offline. Though Petlibro maintains that "existing settings and schedules stored locally on y... View Source

Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills... View Source

For 2026, the Pixel 11 Pro has two new camera sensors along with a modern twist on classic indicator lights... View Source

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today's broadcast might be something of a cringefest. If you've been following tech news this morning, you already know a l... View Source

Bank of America announced a $250 billion investment initiative aimed at enhancing critical infrastructure across the United States over the next 18 months. Karen Fang, the bank's Global Head of Infrastructure & Sustainable Finance, explained that the initiative focuses on three key areas: digital infrastructure including data centers, energy and power development, and core infrastructure. She... View Source

HiLight isn't the only highlight... View Source

For the generation that grew up in the 1980s, the release of the recent big-budget "Masters of the Universe" movie would undoubtedly have conjured up a sense of déjà-vu.Picture the scene. The year is 1987. You've got the action figures and the Castle Grayskull playset, you've watched every episode of the cartoon again and again, and you can recite He-Man's opening credits voiceover by heart. He ha... View Source

The 8BitDo mechanical keyboard and dual super buttons. | Image: The Verge If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Super Buttons on sale for $69.99, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the bundle. The styling on this keyboard is thorough, with blocky retro legends on the rounded keycaps,... View Source

Fermi Inc. has named Lee McIntire as chief executive officer, about four months after ousting its co-founder from the top job... View Source

Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has been taking pictures of the Moon for decades, collecting a wealth of data. This false-color picture is a composite of 15 images of the Moon taken through three color filters on NASA’s Galileo solid-state imaging system.Credit: NASA The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and... View Source

Cognition Labs reports Grok 4.6 (available in Devin) is a significant improvement over 4.5, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol while trailing only Opus 5 and Fable 5. Grok 4.6 (the 1.5T-parameter model with improved supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning) launched and is competitive at the frontier. Grok 4.7 is the larger ~2.1T-parameter model. Initial training is complete. ... Read more... View Source

Tiffany McGhee, CEO and CIO of Pivotal Advisors, expressed strong long-term confidence in the AI sector during a live financial news segment. While acknowledging the rapid evolution and transformative potential of AI technologies, she emphasized that the market is shifting from initial excitement and heavy spending toward a more critical evaluation of actual financial returns, including revenue an... View Source

Amazon is handing off MMOs Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to other publishers... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse – the Moon passing between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun – swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. A partial eclipse was visible in parts of the U.S., most... View Source

People came from far and wide to witness phenomenon that has thrilled humans for thousands of yearsAt 6pm the beach and village began to empty, and those in the know headed up the hill towards the old granite coastguard station on the headland.“This is the best spot,” said Sennen Cove resident Lisa Redfern, who had built a pinhole camera for the eclipse out of an old Ryvita Thins box. Continue rea... View Source

Following a growing string of high-profile departures, OpenAI has lost its head of ethics at arguably the worst time possible. As the Financial Times reports, Chloé Bakalar left her post as the AI ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company and without any accompanying announcement. Interestingly, her LinkedIn still claims she’s employed at the firm. There currently is no... View Source

US investment giants including Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Brookfield are partnering with Nvidia to source $500 billion in financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Bloomberg's Michelle Davis reports on "Bloomberg Deals." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

FlightAware's case against Kalshi has been voluntarily dismissed "without prejudice against all defendants."... View Source

And just like that, it's over.Total solar eclipses are incredible moments in time, but they are fleeting. As the moon passes directly in front of the sun and its shadow sweeps across Earth's surface, the temperature drops and the light takes on an eerie twilight quality. Birds and other animals go quiet. It's a spectacle unlike any other. And for millions today who were lucky enough to be in the p... View Source

Beginning in Russia’s remote Arctic north, the eclipse traced an arc over much of western Europe – with the best views in Spain, Iceland and GreenlandIt was a moment of awe shared by millions across Europe: an eclipse that blocked out the sun, plunging parts of the continent into a daytime darkness in which temperatures dropped and birds suddenly went quiet.Wednesday’s eclipse began in Russia’s re... View Source

Promotional artwork for Sam Barlow’s Precognition. Looks trippy. Kinetic Publishing, a new indie publisher from the development team behind the co-op horror game Phasmophobia, just hosted its first games showcase, and it includes five ambitious new titles set to release in 2027 and 2028. Perhaps the most significant announcement from Kinetic's show is that it's publishing the next game from Tellin... View Source

Wedding-planning website The Knot Worldwide Inc.’s credit rating was slashed deep into junk territory as it addressed upcoming debt maturities... View Source

As of August 2026, you can send unlimited texts to ChatGPT... View Source

A radiation-shielding vest might one day protect astronauts from dangerous, random outbursts from the sun, a new study finds.More than 50 years after the final Apollo mission, NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon. To succeed, this project must protect astronauts from solar radiation, especially the intense and unpredictable radiation from solar storms. Coating an entire spacecr... View Source

The iPhone 17’s successor might not arrive until 2027. | Photography by Allison Johnson / The Verge According to an Economic Daily News report spotted by MacRumors, executives for Apple supplier Pegatron confirmed during an earnings call that the iPhone 18 Pro series phones will launch this fall, but the base iPhone 18 won't arrive until the first quarter of next year. The more affordable iPhone 1... View Source

DeepSeek has set up an official social media account and posted job listings for a new team focused on helping develop artificial intelligence agents that can take on services like Anthropic PBC’s popular Claude Code... View Source

Google didn't have any new headphones this year, but some new features are coming to the Pixel Buds... View Source

The first breathtaking photos of totality for the total solar eclipse 2026 are pouring in, revealing incredible views of the sun's atmosphere radiating out from behind the moon's colossal silhouette.Eclipse chasers have spent the past few hours watching in awe, as the moon transformed the sun into an incandescent crescent in the run up to totality, before swallowing it entirely in the skies over S... View Source

Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting "a significant amount" of its work on first-party AAA games, "specifically around MMOs," Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne and Liberty will be taken over by FirstSpark Games and NC in Q4... View Source

At this point, it’s a pretty well known fact that electric vehicles — and, at least in the popular imagination, Teslas especially — have a nagging habit of erupting into flames. One Tesla owner in Maine evidently has that concern hovering in the back of their mind every time they leave the driveway. While driving around the town of Tremont in a sleek red Model S, an unnamed driver hit an obj... View Source

Brazilian regulators ordered chat app Discord Inc. to halt livestreaming in the South American country after the death of a teenager, part of a push to step up protections for young users of popular social media platforms... View Source

The big news with Honor's latest is the automated pop-up camera gimbal... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is capable of vertical and horizontal motion to simulate a range of flight experiences, such as lunar landers, helicopters, and commercial aircraft.NASA/Jesse Carpenter Imagine stepping into a machine that can make yo... View Source

The Pixel 11 Pro in matte obsidian. | Photo: David Imel / The Verge Looking to get your hands on the latest Pixel devices? After weeks of leaks and rumors, Google has officially announced its next generation of Pixel phones and watches. The base Pixel 11 starts at $899, the Pro and Pro XL are $1,099 and $1,299 respectively, and the Pro Fold starts at $1,899. The watch comes in two sizes, with the... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with David Gura and Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Inflation cools, giving the Fed more breathing room as AI earnings reignite the trade. Oil wavers as Trump escalates rhetoric over the Strait of Hormuz. Plus, Goldman makes a $2.25 billion ETF bet, the Lakers sell for a record $12 billion, Firefly CEO Jason Kim on surging launch demand, and Link L... View Source

There's now an opt-out toggle for something that should have been opt-in to begin with... View Source

The Pixel 11 Pro. | Photo: David Imel / The Verge Google just added four new phones to the Pixel family: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They're slightly more expensive than their predecessors, but they come with some notable upgrades, including improved cameras and a new Tensor G6 chip that should deliver faster performance. The phones also have new photogr... View Source

The good guys protecting us from people who want to work and live here will continue their morally upright quest by electrocuting their foes into submission. As the Associated Press reports, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is planning to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” that officers and agents can wea... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is working on offering rides to kids between the ages of 10 and 12, marking a possible expansion into its youngest demographic yet... View Source

Forget AI, we are most looking forward to fun new colors this coming hardware season... View Source

Grok Bot are AI teammates you can give real work to. Bots have their own computer. They sign into the tools you already use and work across apps, inboxes, and more. They finish jobs end to end, and only come back when something needs your approval. You can message them like a colleague and hand ... Read more... View Source

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video," according to a Twitch support page. Other "AI-supported" f... View Source

Apple Inc. hired Nate Gatten as its new head of government affairs, tapping a longtime American Airlines Group Inc. executive with Republican ties to handle a delicate role at the company... View Source

If you've got a jumble of HDMI cables behind your entertainment center, one of these devices might help... View Source

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is ... Read more... View Source

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aiming to spend up to $20 million on equipping officers and agents with specialized gloves that deliver painful electric shocks. These plans were outlined in a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, with an unspecified quantity of the devices set to be delivered by March 2027. The electrified handwear outlined in the contract... View Source

As US lawmakers continue to ponder how to regulate AI, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (VT-D) is issuing a dire warning. In a letter addressed to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Sanders highlighted several recent incidents involving AI agents from all three companies escaping their confines, gaining access to the internet, and infiltrating the systems of third parties. “Almost every... View Source

Luke Petherbridge, CEO of Link Logistics joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how the AI boom is creating a second wave of demand far beyond data centers themselves. Cooling equipment, chip manufacturing and infrastructure are filling warehouses across the country, while e-commerce and reshoring add even more pressure to an industrial market where new supply is falling. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition arrives October 1 and includes a new story arc... View Source

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is pictured inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock prior to the start of the third spacewalk for the STS-134 mission. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in support of the International Sp... View Source

Perhaps you are travelling to see the celestial rarity? Or maybe you are making an event of it at home?How to safely watch the solar eclipseOn Wednesday evening, millions of Europeans will experience a solar eclipse.A wide band of north and central Spain, plus some of Portugal and parts of Greenland and Iceland will experience a rare total eclipse. Continue reading... View Source

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold. | Photo: David Imel / The Verge Google wasn't first to make a foldable Android phone, but the company's Pixel Fold series is now an established player with unique traits compared to its competitors. For one, it popularized the passport-style design years ago, being more wide than tall - something that Samsung tried for the first time this year with its Z Fold 8, and that App... View Source

AI bots are now generating more web traffic than people for the first time in history. But Google is accelerating the rise of automated activity, with its search infrastructure giving the company an unfair advantage, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you're not yet using the digital wallet -- Apple Wallet or Google Wallet -- on your phone, there are some good reasons to start... View Source

Lindsey Waitt, engineer with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, participates in a terminal countdown simulation for Artemis III on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Clayton Rougelot As a young girl raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, Lindsey Waitt dreamed of working for NASA. Her dream... View Source

Comet 220P/McNaught soaring over Namibia on August 8, 2026. (Image credit: Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger)What a view. Astrophotographers in Namibia have captured a bright green comet soaring overhead in a spectacular new photograph.What is it?In this incredible new photograph is the comet 220P/McNaught. Discovered by Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught, the comet orbits our sun once every... View Source

Amid doubling prices and fraying tempers, shoppers hunt for elusive eyewear to prepare for rare eclipse of sun• Europe solar eclipse – latest updatesA secretive WhatsApp group was pinging with notifications throughout Wednesday, letting its members know where in London the latest “drop” would take place.The group’s focus, rather than being for an illicit substance, was for the much coveted eclipse... View Source

Maybe don’t let the AI shred next time. | Image: D’Addario After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plugin... View Source

For protestors rising up against the data centers undergirding the AI boom, the math is simple: wherever they sprout, the facilities make frightfully poor neighbors — inflating utility prices, discharging hazardous waste, and blasting horrid noise at all hours of the night. For data center developers, there’s a different calculation to be made: namely, one of supply and demand around the see... View Source

German companies deploying artificial intelligence are expecting its growing use to depress wages over the next five years, especially for junior workers... View Source

Google's Pixel 11 cameras provide a nice mix of improved hardware and AI features... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 12 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Perseids over a Little Planet Explanation: It looks like a view fro... View Source

The most distant 'black hole star' yet found, existing in the universe less than 660 million years after the Big Bang, has provided a vital clue as to the origin of the mysterious "little red dots" that populate the James Webb Space Telescope's images of the early universe.The consensus seems to be that these bizarre objects, which were first discovered in 2022, are growing supermassive black hole... View Source

The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light about 30bn light years from EarthAstronomers claim to have discovered a new kind of cosmic object, a black hole star, which is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light.The international team made the breakthrough after focusing their attention on a mysterious red spot in images of t... View Source

The Pixel Tag is longer but thinner than Apple’s AirTags. More than two years after launching its own device-tracking network, Google has finally followed up with its own tracker. The Pixel Tag, which goes on sale in November, looks like one of the more capable trackers too: It combines ultra wideband (UWB) with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two distinct types of precision tracking. The Pixel... View Source

You might assume that Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe Gates, is the final boss of all nepo babies due to her zillionaire dad. But she’s long insisted that her e-commerce startup, Phia, will succeed “no ties to my privilege or my last name.” That goal just got harder than ever with the revelation that Phia has been taking credit for sales it didn’t drive — a p... View Source

Formlabs, a maker of 3D printers, shook up its board as former Apple Inc. hardware chief Dan Riccio took a stake in the company and became a strategic adviser... View Source

The biggest additions on the Pixel Watch 5 are new health features... View Source

On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (now known as the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station) in Florida. Some of the best cameras ever launched into space are on MRO, and the spacecraft has taken some seri... View Source

The settings page for the Pixel 11 series’ “Creator Suite.” Google knows creators are a big audience. The occupation is growing fast, and landing some influential names could be a major turning point for the Pixel's market share. This year, Google is building features directly into its new Pixel lineup that it says can help creators record, organize, edit, and publish content faster and more effic... View Source

How do you fix a shortage in air traffic controllers and restore trust in the safety of the country’s aviation industry? By hiring video game addicts, of course. On Sunday, transportation secretary Sean Duffy announced that the department had hired thousands of new air traffic controllers thanks to his campaign to “recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers.” “We... View Source

The Trump administration announced a new program aimed at accelerating shipments between the US and its closest trading partners of goods considered critical to developing artificial intelligence... View Source

Google says its new tools can act as an early warning system for diabetes... View Source

A new quality assessment report from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluates data from the Polar Geospatial Center’s (PGC) EarthDEM product. The results of the evaluation help inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of commercial Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for use in NASA science. At left, the cover of the Commercial Satellite Data... View Source

Google is hosting a Pixel launch event on Wednesday night where it will show off its latest lineup of devices. But you don't have to wait until then for all the news: We were able to check out the devices ahead of the event and take a look at everything Google's unveiling, including the latest Pixel phones, new health features on the Pixel Watch 5, and more. Google will be livestreaming the event... View Source

Lightspeed Venture Partners is seeking about $600 million in a secondary process to extend its ownership of OpenAI and four other assets, as well as a new commitment to Anthropic PBC, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Here's everything you need to know about cache, what it does and how it might be affecting your iPhone's performance... View Source

Jaguar's all-electric Type 01 comes with a very beige interior that divides the four seats with a "spine" that spans the length of the cabin. New photos shared by Jaguar show a low-slung driver's seat, alongside a slim dashboard with a smartphone-style display in the center. This vehicle doesn't come with a traditional rear-view mirror, as Jaguar says you'll find a "ClearSight Rear View Display" a... View Source

Bad news for anyone seeking a job in this AI-infested hiring hellscape: not even Google’s top AI lab can figure it out. That’s according to an HR memo viewed by Bloomberg, encouraging job-seekers to fill out a special AI-proof form on top of their standard application so that a “real human” will know they applied. The document, which contains the delicious disclaimer... View Source

A venture capital firm co-founded by Jeff Bezos’ younger brother Mark sank $11.7 million into a startup that fashioned itself as an Uber of fence installation. Now it’s suing the startup’s founder after the company’s collapse amid allegations of fraud and mismanagement... View Source

The high-spec X6 balances ease-of-use with pro features like i-Log and 10-bit color... View Source

Just over 12 hours after its first liftoff of the day out of Florida's Space Coast, SpaceX has delivered a second batch of Starlink internet satellites to orbit on a rocket lifting off from the company's California launch site. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 12, at 12:46 p.m. EDT (0346 GMT; 9:46 p.m. local time). The mission, Starlink Group 17-49, carried 24... View Source

Eclipse to be witnessed by tens of millions across western Europe as enthusiasts gather along path of totalityThe online forums are abuzz as people debate potential cloud cover and trade tips on the best viewing points. Hours before wide swathes of Spain were set to experience the country’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century, the excitement was palpable.“It’s going to be spectacular,... View Source

Insta360 announced the next iteration of its popular 360-degree action cameras that have helped the company expand its offerings. The new X6 introduces a design that's smaller than last year's X5 and X4 Air but with improved video capabilities thanks to an even larger pair of custom 1/1.1-inch square sensors from Sony. While last year's models offered 8K recording at up to 30fps, the new X6 can ca... View Source

Whoop Inc., the maker of popular screenless fitness trackers, plans to roughly double the size of its Boston headquarters, boosting a city struggling to grab a bigger piece of the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most prolific and impressive meteor showers of the year, peaks tonight! Widely regarded as one of the best meteor showers of the year, the Perseids can produce up to 100 meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions and weather permitting. This year's display is particularly favorable because the shower peaks on the night of the new moon, leaving skies free... View Source

The Robot Phone takes pop-up cameras to a whole new level. The Robot Phone, which launches today in China, doesn't sound like a good idea - and not only because it's not actually a robot. Instead it's a regular Android smartphone with its main camera installed on a compact gimbal arm that unfolds from the phone's rear. Cramming the equivalent of a DJI Osmo Pocket inside a smartphone sounds like a... View Source

Whether you’re looking for medical advice or tips on industrial agriculture, one thing is abundantly clear: never trust an AI chatbot without first getting a second opinion, preferably from a human who has actual expertise in the topic. That’s the takeaway from an incident in the small city of Chuzhou, China, after a large langue model dispensed some advice that led to the untimely dea... View Source

S&P 500 Index futures are up 0.3% as of 7:59 a.m. in New York. Upbeat results from AI infrastructure firms revived appetite for tech stocks with traders awaiting a key US inflation reading later Wednesday... View Source

Investors seek evidence of Tencent closing the gap on AI leaders... View Source

You’ll have to be fine with letting Grok sign into your online accounts, however. | Image: SpaceXAI SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace ta... View Source

Jumia Technologies AG secured $50 million in fresh equity funding from its biggest shareholder and the World Bank’s International Finance Corp. as the African e-commerce company pushes toward its first profit... View Source

Are AI-aided music creators like “Saxboy Billy” one-hit wonders?... View Source

Wintermute Trading Ltd. intends to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data center infrastructure over the next five years, as the digital assets market maker looks to diversify into traditional markets following a slump in crypto... View Source

Come hang out with us as we liveblog Google's Pixel 11 launch today. Our comments (not DMs) are open... View Source

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think... View Source

Swedish coding startup Lovable has raised funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, bringing in fresh capital to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX... View Source

Norway's sovereign wealth fund delivered its strongest quarterly performance in six years, driven by its exposure to major technology companies including Nvidia Corp., Apple Inc., and Microsoft Corp. Additionally, the fund's CEO Nicolai Tangen highlighted the positive impact of Asian tech stocks on overall profits. Bloomberg'sHeidi Taksdal Skjeseth reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

An Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have been sold in a marketplace, months after images of the unreleased model were leaked... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue beat estimates, buoyed by surging ad sales and resilient game spending while it works to catch up in artificial intelligence... View Source

Asian stocks rose and US equity-index futures advanced as CoreWeave reported stronger-than-expected sales growth and Super Micro's revenue forecast topped estimates. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You may want to keep a close eye on your Gmail inbox if you're looking to get a Pixel 11... View Source

The former architect of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s flagship model has founded a startup to build AI agents, securing backing from Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Chinese venture heavyweights... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a better-than-expected increase in quarterly profit, signaling robust global demand for AI hardware... View Source

Manus, a Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup, will resume independent operations as it parts ways with Meta Platforms Inc. after Beijing blocked a landmark takeover that highlighted the risks facing local entrepreneurs expanding globally... View Source

Today (Aug. 12), millions of people across Greenland, Iceland and Spain will witness a total solar eclipse as the moon completely covers the sun, turning day into night, albeit briefly. It's Europe's first total solar eclipse since 1999, and with a maximum of 2 minutes, 18 seconds of totality, it will be worth the wait … weather permitting! Even if you're not inside the path of totality, there's s... View Source

Drone startup Neros has raised $250 million in a round co-led by Sequoia that triples its valuation to $2.5 billion as it expands beyond strike drones into autonomous systems and drone interceptors. CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson and Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire join Bloomberg to discuss plans to ramp up drone production, the race to build a US supply chain independent of China, and why they ultimatel... View Source

Sonos could launch a new pair of headphones called the "Ace Ultra" at its September event... View Source

European makers of vacuum pumps, heat exchangers and specialty gases are cementing their spot as lesser-known winners of the artificial-intelligence boom, creating new opportunities for investors wary of more established AI stocks... View Source

Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup’s valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Stops Along the Path of Totality Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Galaxy Digital Head of Firmwide Research Alex Thorn, ledger Chief Human Agency officer Ian Rogers, Bitwise Asset Management CIO Matt Hougan, Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat, and AnchorWatch COO & Co-Founder Becca Amilee Rubenfeld. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Eclipse chasers, tourists and astronomers searching for the clearest skies to watch the two minutes of totalityThe online forums are abuzz as people debate potential cloud cover and trade tips on the best viewing points. Hours before wide swathes of Spain were set to experience the country’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century, the excitement was palpable.“It’s going to be spectacular... View Source

Wong Hong, Director General at the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, discusses the outlook for the region's carriers and the impact from higher jet fuel prices on passenger demand. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Neil Shah, Vice President at Counterpoint, discusses the outlook for Nvidia and the circular deals underpinning the AI boom. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc. gave a revenue forecast for the current quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, a sign the booming artificial intelligence market continues to bolster sales of the company’s servers... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Isabelle Lee, Kristine Aquino and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese startup Moonshot has put the AI world on notice. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast: What Kimi K3 means for the future of the global race for AI supremacy... View Source

Gio Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv, joined the program to discuss the company's recent earnings report. Unlike many AI-related companies that often beat revenue expectations but miss on profitability or margins, Vertiv reported the opposite: it beat on margins and profitability but missed on revenue. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabelle Lee on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, reacts to CoreWeave topping analysts' estimates for second-quarter sales after signing up more customers in a booming market, with sales more than doubling to $2.58 billion. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that "I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through... View Source

Investments next year could range from 600 billion won to more than 1 trillion won', Min Kyung-seol, South Korea’s deputy finance minister for innovation and growth, said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's Shery Ahn. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Memory-chip makers may have found a new defense against the inevitable cooling of their boom: giving more cash back to shareholders... View Source

SpaceX isn't a launch company anymore.SpaceX is famous for launching, and landing, its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets and sending astronauts to space aboard its Dragon crew capsule. Recently, however, the company has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence (AI) outfit — and that journey is now mostly complete. "Our AI revenue will exceed all other SpaceX revenue probably in September... View Source

South Korea expects to deploy more than 1 trillion won ($707 million) of fresh capital into a new sovereign wealth fund targeting AI and other strategic industries next year, joining a global push by governments to mobilize investment and gain an edge in high-tech sectors... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced new cable links in the Americas on Tuesday, including one between Panama, the Dominican Republic and Chile, which is trying to establish itself as a regional digital hub... View Source

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that's almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp. In May, a Brazilian regulator's leaked images revealed that Xbox Elite 3 would have new two new scroll wheels on the bottom edge, a second... View Source

Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork, discusses the company's recent financial performance after its full-year forecast missed analyst estimates, leading to a significant drop in the stock price. Brown discusses the sources of pressure facing Upwork and how the company plans to adapt to these challenges. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

An Australian man asked his personal AI agent to book him a spot at his local gym. Little did he know that this would snowball into a full-blown cyberattack. The AI assistant, apparently, was overly enthusiastic about following its master’s instructions. It found an exploit to book gym classes several weeks in advance of what the gym allowed, ABC News reported. And taking no prisoners, it ev... View Source

Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, discussed Super Micro's robust business model and strong market position during the segment. Despite recent volatility, Super Micro benefits from significant pricing power and a durable business model as a key supplier of hardware components essential for AI-driven growth. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company previously teased it would change messaging in May... View Source

Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments across the world... View Source

The app was banned from government devices in 2022... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large sections of space. Roman will help astronomers answer questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, and more. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’... View Source

Astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever created, offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky.The new map, created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys team, contains a staggering 5.6 trillion pixels and combines more than 263,000 telescope exposures collected... View Source

It looks like we'll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO Tom Conrad during a third quarter earnings call. As reported by What Hi-Fi?, an FCC filing by Sonos, Inc reveals details about upcoming wireless headphones with the model number S52A. In addition to the S52A designation, one of the submitted documents shows an oval diagram - likely... View Source

Rajesh Vashist, Chairman and CEO of SiTime, discussed the company's impressive triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth, attributing much of the acceleration to AI-driven demand and the expanding data center market. SiTime's technology plays a critical role in timing synchronization across various data center components, including TPUs, GPUs, switches, accelerator cards, optical modules, and cab... View Source

State laws around driving with headphones vary, so make sure you know what's legal... View Source

The fully-integrated LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) ready for environmental testing. A small suitcase-size instrument suite built at NASA Goddard, LEMS is designed to carry out continuous, long-term monitoring of the seismic environment at the Moon, including surface motion caused by moonquakes and meteorite impacts in the lunar south polar region. NASA Goddard NASA has declared “wren... View Source

CoreWeave Inc., a provider of the type of computing that powers artificial intelligence systems, topped analysts’ estimates for second-quarter sales after signing up more customers in a booming market... View Source

Most current models support at least two... View Source

Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources, offering the most comprehensive public view yet of the universe's hottest and most energetic objects.The second major public data release from the German-led eROSITA X-ray telescope contains a catalog of nearly 2 million X-ray-emitting objects, including supermassive black holes, galaxy clusters, stars and other extreme cosm... View Source

The Pixel 11 Pro has a flashy new light on the back. | Image: Google Last year's Made by Google event for the Pixel 10 resembled a late night talk show, complete with Jimmy Fallon as host, and it aired an hour after the phones were revealed. Spec dives and executive appearances were replaced with celebrity cameos and awkward skits, to the confusion of many diehard Pixel fans. But it served its pur... View Source

“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,” one professor of food safety tells WIRED... View Source

It’s no secret that doctors across the world are using AI tools to do stuff from taking notes to looking up questions. But what about the next generation of doctors still in training? According to two medical professionals on the ground, the situation is looking pretty alarming. With AI being used by med students, “the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling,” write Sima... View Source

Isabelle Freidheim, Founder and Managing Partner at Athena Capital, discusses investment opportunities in the AI sector, emphasizing that much of the AI model layer has already been built, funded, and repriced outside public markets. She explains that current public market activity around AI models largely represents liquidity events rather than new capital raising. Freidheim highlights that the r... View Source

Abbott partners with Google Health for AI-powered glucose monitoring... View Source

Season 4 of Paramount+'s "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is off to a roaring start with episodes already airing centered around primeval dinosaurs, a haunted starship, and a hedonistic pleasure planet. This week's chapter, titled "A Case of Chiaroscuro", airs on Aug. 13 and takes another bold swing, featuring a wartime film noir-style tale with tense galactic politics at its core.We connected with... View Source

That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit the mark a... View Source

Bloomberg's Nicola White joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." A virtually unknown fintech that catapulted into the headlines and cracked a $1 billion market value after signing a deal with the Trump family’s crypto platform last year has sold its core business for about $12 million. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A flight tracking service is suing Kalshi for using its data without authorization... View Source

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users. It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that with the Threads VR app, you can do things like browse feeds, make posts, like... View Source

The Perseids will peak between August 12 and 13. Here’s what time—and where—you can get the best view, and why 2026 will be an exceptional year... View Source

In light of plummeting public support for its widespread automatic license plate readers, surveillance company Flock has lost dozens of contracts with cities across the US. The company even drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber and Lyft drivers’ cars to spy on other vehicles, as 404 Media reported this week. Citizens are increasingly disgusted by the company’s presence on publi... View Source

Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise Asset Management, joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The Coldcard wallet hack may strengthen the case for spot Bitcoin ETFs by undermining confidence in self-custody among investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zoom screen-sharing bug let people fully take over other devices on a call... View Source

Google TV Freeplay, the company's free, ad-supported streaming service, now supports video on demand. Instead of tuning into Google TV Freeplay's selection of always-on channels, you can now choose from over 10,000 shows and movies to watch whenever you want. The update introduces titles like Lady Bird, Seventeen Again, and Hell's Kitchen, according to Google's announcement. The company has also e... View Source

Robinhood Senior Vice President and General Manager of Crypto Johann Kerbrat talks about investor sentiment around crypto, a hack of Coldcard wallets and how the business is expanding in the United Kingdom. He speaks on "Bloomberg Crypto." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thirteen authors joined a little-known Google AI study in 2022. Now they're facing backlash... View Source

A newly found Mars meteorite is revealing the secrets of a previously hidden time period of Red Planet geological history.The 1.27-billion-year-old space rock, called Northwest Africa (NWA) 13441, was discovered in Algeria in 2019 — but its age was not confirmed until recently. Now scientists say the meteorite helps answer questions about a huge gap in the Martian geologic record: a span of time b... View Source

The Google Pixel Buds 2a in hazel. | Image: The Verge Looking for great pair of earbuds that work particularly well with Android phones? The Google Pixel Buds 2a are currently discounted to $99 (usually $129) at various retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Google. These very capable Bluetooth earbuds come in four colors, with a lightweight fit that helps them disappear into you... View Source

Over 30 student activists came together on Monday afternoon to occupy the Gallup Building in Washington DC, home to a public-facing lobbying office belonging to ChatGPT developer OpenAI. Once inside the lobby, the demonstrators unfurled a massive banner reading “Stop Stealing Our Future,” while others held signs with messages like “OpenAI bought my Senator.” The demonstrati... View Source

RUM Group posted record quarterly revenue as its push into AI infrastructure begins to show up in results following its acquisition of Northern Data. CEO Chris Pavlovski joins Bloomberg to discuss the company’s Quake AI business, its push to monetize more than 250 megawatts of power capacity and what he calls a $3 billion annual revenue opportunity. He also explains why the company's Rumble video... View Source

Modern iPhones reflect years of gradual evolution, blending new capabilities with familiar elements that keep users adapting along the way... View Source

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he'd be starting "something new." "Over the last few months, I've been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success," Lightcap wrote. "I believe there are a f... View Source

SpaceXAI is rolling out new artificial intelligence software that’s designed to act like a team of AI agents fielding assignments throughout the day, marking the latest bid by Elon Musk’s company to keep pace with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI... View Source

Disney+ will be the new global streaming home of Formula E racing... View Source

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.”Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA... View Source

On Aug. 11, 1960, part of the Discoverer 13 satellite became the first human-made object to be recovered from Earth's orbit. The United States Department of Defense launched the mission as part of the C.I.A.'s Corona spy satellite program. They wanted to see if they could return a satellite's instrument package to Earth safely and gently enough to retrieve the object intact. The reentry capsule wa... View Source

Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event suggest that the Pixel 11 lineup will come in an array of colors, with signs pointing to a built-in light coming to Pro models. Teasers from Google also indicate that it will show off a next-gen Pixel Fold alongside a Pixel Watch 5 in four different finishes. There might be a new P... View Source

Sonos Inc. is readying a new pair of wireless headphones, the first product in an upcoming hardware wave that will see the audio company push deeper into artificial intelligence and frame its signature whole-home system as an ideal match for cutting-edge AI models and voice interactions... View Source

Giving your controllers a good clean can help with stick drift... View Source

A total solar eclipse isn't just a spectacular sight to witness for those lucky enough to lie in the path of totality (or travel to it, as many dedicated skywatchers do). It also gives scientists a rare chance to study the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, during the day. As such, NASA plans to take full advantage of the opportunity for the upcoming total solar eclipse happening on Aug 12. The sp... View Source

Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a big button labeled “Search.” That’s now changing. As anticipated, many users are reporting that the “Search” button is no more, replaced by three buttons for various AI features: “Create images,” “Ask about files,” and “Brainstorm... View Source

Nvidia secured a $500 billion commitment from six Wall Street firms — including Apollo, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock — to finance AI infrastructure. Bloomberg's Silas Brown reports on Big Tech’s growing reliance on private markets to power the AI boom on Bloomberg Open Interest. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The maker of Until Dawn and Directive 8020 says it's cutting jobs to ensure it remains sustainable... View Source

SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11).A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 GMT), carrying 29 of the broadband spacecraft toward low Earth orbit (LEO).About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first stage made a pinpoint landing in the Atlantic Ocean atop the SpaceX droneship "A S... View Source