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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 ProShares Head of Research & Active Investments CIO Alessio de Longis, KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk, Goldman Sachs Co-Head, Global Commodities Research Daan Struyven, Janus Henderson Portfolio Manager Jeremiah Buckley,... View Source

The HoverAir Versa. | Image: HoverAir I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that transform it into a drone - has already stopped taking US orders just three days after its Indiegogo debut, and may be forced to abandon shipping plans in the US. HoverAir is now telling backers it's on... View Source

Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO of Liquid Death, joined the program to discuss the growing public sentiment against the rapid expansion of data centers. Despite widespread interest in AI investments, the mood around data center growth has been notably negative. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that... View Source

Doctor Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering and Former Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, joined the program to discuss her influential role in the semiconductor industry. Having served on the board of Intel and contributed to the design of chips found in mobile phones, she shared insights into the technological advancements and impact of semiconductors in... View Source

The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of so-called "radio galaxies" with fading "radio lobes." The discovery reveals what happens when the supermassive black hole engines that power these vast, blooming outflows of plasma stall. This discovery increases our understanding of the life cycles of galaxies.The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio... View Source

Forget AI taking our jobs. We might have to start worrying about robots surpassing us in slapstick humor instead. In a video taken of the practice runs at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, one of these robots sprints down a race track at an impressive pace, before crashing and literally flaming out in spectacular fashion. Deceleration, it turned out, proved not to be its strong... View Source

Diane Swonk, KPMG Chief Economist, discusses expectations for the upcoming Federal Reserve speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. The speech is traditionally technical and focused on internal task forces, but markets are seeking clearer guidance on inflation and monetary policy. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is searching for leakers ahead of GTA's November release... View Source

Filming a high-profile episodic TV series like "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is often a Herculean task for any professional cast and crew, but toss in massive spaceship sets, a colorful constellation of costume changes, tone and stylistic shifts, hand-to-hand combat, horseback riding, and puppets, and you’ve got a mad sci-fi circus.We connected with Ethan Peck (Spock), Christina Chong (La’an Noo... View Source

TikTok Inc. and Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million to resolve a a Biden-era lawsuit by the Justice Department accusing the popular social media app of collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy law... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Shares Views of August Solar Eclipse from Ground, Air, Space This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse as the Sun sets over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Sun... View Source

The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights that lift off and land within its borders, and aims to expand the nation's capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.President Donald Trump just signed a new National Space Transportation Policy that lays out priorities for commercial, civil and national security missions to orbit. The memorandum, pu... View Source

If this isn’t an indictment on America’s hatred of Flock cameras, we don’t know what is. On Wednesday, a grand jury in Ohio refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR). In June, police in the Cincinnati suburb of Union Township arrested Cody Morelock, accusing him of removing bolts on the ALPR p... View Source

Emily Chang interviews the top names in tech and business on The Circuit. Bring your questions and join her for an interactive Live Q&A conversation on Sept. 1 at 1 p.m. EDT... View Source

NASA's Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week.President Donald Trump will award those spaceflyers the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28) at Johnson Space Center in Houston to recognize their historic journey around the moon this past April.The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and will feature NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Presid... View Source

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut. Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to "to evolve our business to deliver the best experi... View Source

Khosla Ventures is backing Discovery Loop, a new AI startup founded by former Google leaders including Jeff Dean that aims to dramatically accelerate scientific experimentation. Khosla Ventures Managing Director Samir Kaul explains why the firm quickly decided to invest, and why he believes the opportunity could be as profound as frontier AI models. He also discusses why soaring technology valuati... View Source

LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working... View Source

In theory, the AI industry should have a very attractive story for the public: automate away drudgery and free everyone up to do the things they really love. In practice, they’ve bungled that layup narrative in favor of alternate fearmongering and out-of-touch outbursts that have alienated an incredible chunk of the population. And, crucially, public sentiment seems to be moving in exactly t... View Source

Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset, part of an effort to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence... View Source

Season two of Netflix's Cyberpunk 2077 anime streams October 20... View Source

From left, Artemis II crew NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen are photographed on April 29, 2026, in the White House Oval Office with President Donald J. Trump.Credit: White House President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 11 a.m. EDT on Frida... View Source

Early Anthropic investor Anjney Midha unloads on traditional venture capital, arguing firms failed investors by missing the AI revolution. He explains why he’s still buying Anthropic, predicts public markets will embrace frontier AI, and reveals why Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition may really be a massive bet on securing the agentic internet. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing... View Source

For more information, contact Mark K. Leader, Glenn Research Center, mark.leader@nasa.gov Download the PDF version NASA’s Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) code is a foundational tool for propulsion system analysis. It provides equilibrium chemistry, rocket performance, shock, and detonation calculations used across NASA and the broader aerospace community. NASA Engineering and Safety C... View Source

The world just got its first good looks at some hardware that will make spaceflight history.Last Thursday (Aug. 13), Japan unveiled the spacecraft that make up its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which aims to snag samples of the Mars moon Phobos and haul them to Earth — something that has never been done.The big reveal came at Tanegashima Space Center, the site from which MMX will launch... View Source

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, so you might want to plan on getting there no later than opening time to boost your chance of getting on... View Source

Since neuroscientists began excavating the human mind in search of the root cause of consciousness, they’ve acting on one foundational assumption — that consciousness is a function of the brain. It’s highly intuitive: we’re conscious, while rocks and dirt and other inanimate matter don’t seem to be. However, one researcher is flipping that assumption on its head. At a neuro... View Source

Unlike solar farms or housing projects, data centers face a unique challenge: people don't just oppose them in their own backyards—they question if we need them at all. On Odd Lots, Jasmine Sun tells Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why the AI industry and policymakers have failed to make a compelling case for the AI buildout, leading to widespread anxiety over resource usage. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla and others recall over 4 million vehicles in China over door handles... View Source

Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this Aug. 6, 2026, infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic Cliffs. This feature, called the “Treasure Chest,” is an object known as a cometary globule. A cometary globule is an isolated cloud of gas and dust with a den... View Source

I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn't seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. The Pixel 11 includes a suite of new photography features called Camera Looks that allow those who really care about those things (h... View Source

It’s easy to make the case that the US equity market is in bubble territory when the major metrics point in the same direction. There are several reasons why this bubble will likely burst before the end of 2027. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations by mid-2027. This launch has been a long time coming, as Walmart was one of the last m... View Source

Flock Safety is seriously struggling to beat the allegations of enabling a dystopian surveillance state. The company has been reeling from a growing PR crisis, with a growing number of Americans vandalizing its flawed license plate-reading cameras. It’s been losing dozens of contracts with cities across the country as the controversy grows, undermining its value to police. And now, while sim... View Source

From electrical contractors to HVAC engineers, people far from Silicon Valley are quietly asking the same question: Is AI a bubble? Speaking with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on Odd Lots, Jasmine Sun explains how local communities weigh the massive economic tradeoffs of multi-year data center projects when they aren't even sure if the technology—or its funding—is here to stay. Listen wherever... View Source

A satellite dish left by previous owners may yet have something to offer today. Here's what it can and can't do... View Source

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged infrin... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc. said hackers breached its systems in July and accessed personal information, following a spate of attempted or successful cyberattacks at major hedge funds in recent weeks... View Source

Each earbud takes its own image, which is then synchronized for use by Visual Intelligence... View Source

SpaceX is picking up the pace of preparations for the next launch of its giant Starship rocket. On Wednesday night (Aug. 19), the company completed a single-engine static fire test with its Ship 41 vehicle, the upper stage that's in line to fly Starship's upcoming Flight 14 mission. As its name suggests, Flight 14 will be Starship's 14th test flight, but it will be the rocket's first launch into o... View Source

Earlier in August, the Associated Press broke the news that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to spend upwards of $20 million dollars to acquire thousands of electric-shock gloves. Dubbed the “Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter,” or G.L.O.V.E, the ominously-named devices deliver a painful electric shock meant to immobilize anybody at the mere flick of a wrist. And though... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. has been fined €825 million ($963 million) by Dutch authorities for using automated systems to suspend driver accounts, in what is the second-largest penalty under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation... View Source

Sam's Club will soon let you pay with your phone or smartwatch too... View Source

A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of "dark stars" that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.These low-frequency gravitational waves were detected back in 2023 using an array of cosmic lighthouses, or pulsars, in a so-called "pulsar timing array." Pulsars are neutron stars that spin rapidly and regularly while blasting out collimated... View Source

SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.The spacecraft flew aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 11:14 a.m. EDT (1514 GMT). That was a day later than planned; SpaceX scrubbed a liftoff attempt on Thursday (Aug. 20) for reasons that w... View Source

The Pixel 10A in its lavender color scheme. It’s also available at a discount in berry, fog, and obsidian colors. | Image: The Verge This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, but with better cameras), and the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They’re good phones, but if you... View Source

As the backlash against data centers mounts, American political strategists are scrambling to balance immense public sentiment against the facilities with their obligation to big business. In the Republican Party’s Senate campaign arm, a recently leaked memo exposes just how deep the anxieties go. First reported by Axios, the private document was addressed to major AI companies, warning that... View Source

Broadcom is in talks to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic PBC and other companies. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Chandelier Cluster, or globular cluster NGC 6723, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto)Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster. What is it? The Hubble Space Telescope captured this twinkling image of NGC 6723, or the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster located 27,000 light... View Source

Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry Services, were distributed to Kroger and smaller grocery stores across the South and Southwest US. Then, Taylor Farms pulled more than a dozen... View Source

Our thoughts on Google's new smartwatch as it currently stands... View Source

On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia. A young German astronomer and friend of Albert Einstein's, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, led an expedition to the Crimean Peninsula of Russia, where he hoped to record observations that would verify Albert Einstein's general relativity theory.This theory predicted that the light from distant stars appearing very... View Source

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, other creators star... View Source

The human brain takes decades to mature, a prolonged developmental period marked by the constant formation of new connections between brain networks. However, observing these physical changes in a lab has proven difficult. While artificially grown models of the organ [grown from human stem cells, called human brain organoids, have allowed scientists to study these processes, they’ve been lim... View Source

Fujifilm Holdings Corp. is expanding production of key materials used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing to capitalize on surging demand... View Source

They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass... View Source

“I choose revenge.” | Image: Netflix Good news for Blue Eye Samurai fans: Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of the animated series, and confirmed the series' return for a third and final season. The second season's new teaser ends with the announcement that it'll be available to stream on Netflix in January 2027, though the exact date was not specified... View Source

Governments, fearful of missing out on the spoils of the AI boom, are funding local frontier labs, software and chip companies... View Source

He hates weigh-in days. My cat Pablo is a voluptuous boy. His primordial pouch, originally thought to protect cats' squishy insides, hangs low and wobbles to and fro. Once, when he was five or six, a vet sternly sat my spouse and me down, gravely stating, "He's simply too young to be this fat." Pablo didn't care, but we were traumatized. Now that he's 10, the vets have repeatedly scolded us. All 2... View Source

Software companies are facing a crisis of confidence on Wall Street and trying increasingly aggressive strategies to address it... View Source

What's your favorite thing in the night sky? Maybe it's the Pleiades, that sparkling open cluster that dominates winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it's a sight of the Milky Way arching across the summer sky. Or could it be Saturn, a close-up sight of which has many people reaching for their wallets to buy a bigger telescope.My favorite sight? It's us or, rather, our shadow. It's something... View Source

Here’s Elon Musk showing off the Solar Roof plans back in 2016. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources "close to the program" told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional so... View Source

The government is helping fund some promising startups to gain a domestic foothold in the industry... View Source

Patreon is developing over 30 new and updated tools, but some of them might never fully roll out to users. | Image: Patreon Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to "build a better network - and a better internet," according to CEO Jack Conte. The Patreon roadmap includes discovery algorithm updates, platform and security improvements, and new features for... View Source

DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC... View Source

Over the course of nearly a decade, my husband and I have dutifully carried out a four-times-daily ritual of feeding a pair of lovely cat siblings who hate each other. This was mostly manageable for years, but in 2024, disaster struck for my small dependents: We had a child. Suddenly, the cats were no longer our first priority. Despite our best efforts, their dry-food snack times began slipping or... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. expects to return as much as 110 trillion won ($79 billion) to shareholders this year, handing investors a chunk of the windfall generated by the AI rush. Tom Mackenzie reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Australian state-owned investment manager QIC Ltd., which invested in Alphabet Inc.’s debut Aussie dollar bond, expects more Big Tech issuance Down Under but cautions the market probably has only room for “a couple” such mega deals a year... View Source

OpenAI has rolled out a plugin that allows ChatGPT to control the Apple Messages app... View Source

New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists previously thought. If correct, this discovery could represent a paradigm shift in the hunt for the universe's most mysterious stuff.Dark matter remains so elusive because, despite outweighing the everyday matter that composes stars, planets, moons and our bodies by a... View Source

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”... View Source

Even those within the AI industry have been very anxious about the technology. Worries about its potential to create destabilizing job losses, or rogue AI that could lead to human extinction. But for all their anxiety, they missed the thing that's become the most publicly salient: how upset people would be about data centers. Data center construction has been happening for a long time, and it used... View Source

Japan’s government is allocating an additional ¥150 billion ($944 million) for chip startup Rapidus Corp., ramping up spending in a long-shot bid to compete against the likes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

China’s humanoid robot makers now control 97% of global shipments, giving Beijing an early lead over US rivals. But can they become everyday tools? At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, robots sort boxes, handle laundry and bag clothes, as Allen Wan finds out. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nevada's transportation authorities approved the companies' application to charge for robotaxi rides... View Source

Billionaire Elon Musk pitched Starlink Inc.’s satellite-based internet service as a solution for India’s most underserved rural regions, even though the operator’s launch remains stalled in the country over security concerns... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is in early discussions with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about possible collaborations, including a technical partnership, an investment or perhaps even an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

China’s humanoid robot makers now control 97% of global shipments, giving Beijing an early lead over U.S. rivals. At the World Robot Conference, robots sort boxes, handle laundry, and bag clothes, but the real test is whether they can become everyday tools. Bloomberg’s Allen Wan has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

RayNeo's latest AR smart glasses are going for very different audiences: The very discrete, and the very nerdy... View Source

Nursing a pint at a pub a short walk from GSK Plc’s research headquarters in Stevenage, 30 miles north of London, Paul Jamison is fretting about the British drugmaker’s campus becoming a wasteland. The town’s largest employer is leaving, with the majority of its 1,800 scientists and support staff moving to Cambridge... View Source

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Genesis' new electric SUV is loaded with innovation, but not in the dash or drivetrain as you might expect... View Source

Maryann Tseng, Chief Strategy Officer at Phancy Group, says growing global demand for AI development will help drive the company's growth over the next several years. She speaks exclusively on "The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Danfoss A/S expects its data-center business to at least double its share of the firm’s sales this year as the artificial-intelligence boom drives spending on the cooling equipment needed to run increasingly powerful chips... View Source

When was the last time you ordered jeans online and they actually fit? Brands hope that AI-powered tools will help deliver the perfect size, meaning happier customers and fewer returned goods. Sonja Wind explains how. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic PBC expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of overwhelming demand from investors looking to profit from the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

CXMT Corp.’s breakout listing has sparked optimism across the domestic artificial intelligence hardware space, supporting China’s strategic ambitions to challenge the US in AI development... View Source

Malaysia’s Johor state has attracted more than 5 billion ringgit ($1.2 billion) in potential investments following meetings with investors during a recent working visit to Singapore, according to Onn Hafiz Ghazi, chief minister of the state... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. will regain the top position in the smartphone market this year, in a sign of its greater resilience to higher memory-chip prices, Counterpoint Research predicted... View Source

After collaborating with 8BitDo on a gamepad two years ago, Genki launched the first controller the company designed from the ground up today. With an unorthodox design that positions its thumbsticks and buttons above a large 2.9-inch LCD screen, the Manta looks a lot chunkier than competing controllers. But what really sets it apart is a deeper focus on customizability with numerous settings that... View Source

While much of the fan-building process happens online now, one artist took to East Coast summer camps to reach his audience... View Source

Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access the Azure cloud service - and reviving concerns around circular business dealings in the AI space. Bloomberg's Brody Ford joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI rolled out support on Thursday for controlling Apple Inc.’s iMessage service via ChatGPT, a move with the potential to raise privacy concerns for the iPhone maker... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s profit plunged more than 75% after the company increased quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion to safeguard its position in the global AI arena. Bloomberg's Minmin Low reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to announce Friday a new shareholder return package that could be worth as much as 110 trillion won ($79 billion), according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, discussed the company's upcoming public debut, positioning it as the only pure-play US public company focused on humanoid robots with proven commercial applications. Agility Robotics is valued at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation and expects to go public in the fall. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The upcoming feature expands its Transparency Tags for marking slop songs... 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 Rockefeller Global Family Office CIO Jimmy Chang, Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson, UBS Equity Research Analyst Michael Lasser, LVMH North America Former Chairman Pauline Brown, Laffer Tengler Investments CEO & CIO Nancy... View Source

The casting swap follows Ryan Hurst's injury on set earlier this year... View Source

The curated online marketplace Maisonette is expanding it to what it describes as an untapped market by launching a new platform targeted to tweens and teens. President AJ Nicholas saying the company is looking to tap into the demographic of kids that "start to exert some independence and autonomy and really have a say over their style." As Maisonette has been around for 9 years, Nicholas says its... View Source

The new traffic peak caused "capacity failures" that led to the developer platform's recent outage... View Source

In the two years since it made a largely successful debut, Europe's Ariane 6 rocket has launched eight missions, all of which reached orbit safely. The large, expendable rocket has a capacity of more than 20 metric tons to low-Earth orbit. And to the credit of European rocket scientists and planners, the Ariane 6 has had a substantially smoother rollout than comparable vehicles in the United State... View Source

Allie Miller, CEO of Open Machine, shared insights on how top technology companies are managing their AI investments to balance cost and return. She explained that frontier companies typically divide their AI efforts into two groups: one focused on raising the baseline capabilities across departments like finance, legal, marketing, and sales with modest subscription-level spending, and a second, s... View Source

The Cloud Alpha Air is reasonably priced at $150 and sports super comfy earpads... View Source

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your Discover feed. As shown in a video shared by Google, tapping the feature will open... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Ian Lyngen, Head of US Rates Strategy at BMO Capital Markets, Stephanie Roth, Chief Economist at Wolfe Research, Meghan Robson, Head of US Credit Strategy at BNP Paribas, and Milwood Hobbs, Deputy CIO of Oaktree's Strategic Credit Platform. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives SmallSat 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth # 635, 835, 641, and 940) for Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 9:00 – 10:00 AM Welcome Jose Nunez BryceTech’s Smallsats by the Numbers: 2026 Fletcher Franklin Su... View Source

China's moon exploration program is readying an ambitious robotic mission, one composed of an orbiter, a lander, a rover, a hopper, and a wide range of international experiments including a U.S.-supported payload. In April of this year, Chang'e-7 hardware was transported to the Wenchang launch site, targeting an Aug. 24 (Beijing time) launch atop a Long March 5 Y14 rocket. The lander's destination... View Source

S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime around it... View Source

There are a litany of reasons to distrust Google’s AI Overviews, which now appear at the top of its search results above links to actual websites. The algorithmically generated answers, which pull from various sources online, have quickly become one of the biggest sources of misinformation on the entire internet. The search giant’s AI models are frequently caught hallucinating easily d... View Source

Defense startup Castelion has raised $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation as it races to scale production of its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon system and develop new long-range and defensive capabilities. Co-founder and CFO Andrew Kreitz discusses why manufacturing thousands of weapons at low cost is the company’s central challenge, and how his experience at SpaceX shaped Castelion’s approach. He... View Source

The fighting game will still receive content updates through October 2026... View Source

We'll have to wait a bit longer for a highly anticipated Starship milestone, it appears.On Aug. 4, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said the company aimed to attempt the first-ever catch of Starship's upper stage on the vehicle's next test flight, which is tentatively targeted for late August.But that doesn't seem to be in the cards anymore. "Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tow... View Source

Tech firms are trying to quell growing opposition to their AI plans... View Source

The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website... View Source

Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation, a new study finds.Previous research suggested the surface of the moon was too harsh for microbes to survive. Specifically, a 2019 study found ultraviolet rays and heat from the sun are the greatest barriers for microbial life on the lunar surface. However, this prior work did not account for... View Source

Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of the wildest designs and features in the auto market today. Right off the bat, the coach-style doors signal that things aren't what they seem with the GV90. When the front and rear doors open outward, the B-pillar disappears, creating an extra-large ope... View Source

There was a time in the not-so-distant-past when credit cards were a genuine novelty for American consumers. First emerging in the late 1950s, credit cards spread through households like wildfire during the 70s and 80s, fueling the rapid development of card technology and thus enabling them to become ubiquitous personal finance vehicles they are today. In a matter of decades, private credit has be... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the plunge in Alibaba's profit after the company increased its quarterly capex to almost $10 billion for AI. Plus, a look at how Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, and at defense tech startup Castelion's plans to boost production of its hypersonic missile systems. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A teen who died by suicide was reportedly part of the test... View Source

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot says "active development" will conclude at the end of 2026 because the company hasn't "seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability." Servers will stay online "beyond 2026," and Riot is unlocking all playable characters... View Source

Anna Ashton, former Defense Department analyst for China, says that the US has significantly weakened its relationships and its weapons stockpiles ahead of President Xi's visit to the US in September and that Xi Jinping feels as if he has the upper hand heading into those talks. Ashton also weighed in on the US positioning in the region amid war with Iran, saying that the US is giving Beijing nume... View Source

The two-hour stream will feature Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Gears of War: E-Day and The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past... View Source

LOS ANGELES – On a Saturday evening in Los Angeles, I found myself watching acclaimed actor Elizabeth Banks sing Tom Petty songs along with her fellow actors while writer/director David Wain played the drums. This incredible, bizarre performance celebrated the 25th anniversary of the raunchy, summer camp cult classic "Wet Hot American Summer." But do you remember that it's actually a space movie?... View Source

Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about how the demand for AI data centers has sparked outrage across the US in a Live Q&A on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. EDT... View Source

It's called Pocket and is described as a "platform for making and sharing gizmos."... View Source

When the 11,000-ton cruise ship Le Boréal set sail from Nice, France, on Thursday, Aug. 6, its 205 passengers and 136 crew members began a voyage whose success would depend not only on careful planning, but also on the ship's ability to outmaneuver clouds at the last critical hour. The ship is owned and operated by the French cruise line Compagnie du Ponant. This eclipse cruise was the result of m... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland "several weeks ago," according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could have paid "anywhere between €20 million and €30 million... View Source

OpenAI says that it’s slowing down development and release of new models due to security and alignment concerns. The ChatGPT maker announced the decision in a Tuesday blog post, citing two events as drivers of the indefinite training halt. One was the recent incident in which an OpenAI agent escaped its training sandbox without OpenAI’s knowledge and coordinated with other agents to la... View Source

Mayfield has invested more than $3 billion in AI companies, much of it before founders have built a product or even formed a company. Managing Partner Navin Chaddha joins Bloomberg to discuss why he sees AI as a “100x opportunity,” why venture returns still depend on finding a handful of exceptional founders, and why Mayfield is resisting the industry’s push toward ever-larger funds to stay focuse... View Source

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download and upload speeds a... View Source

Did the bright-eyed enlistees of the Space Force join up thinking they’d one day be fighting alien invaders like they’re, we dunno, Master Chief? Their jobs, in reality: drawing their weapons on imagined human invaders. As the Associated Press reports, security at the Vandenberg Space Force base in California held five news reporters and two military officers at gunpoint because they t... View Source

Anthropic PBC plans to allow business customers to keep greater control of their data when using its most capable artificial intelligence models, a stark change from an earlier data retention policy intended to mitigate potential cyberattacks.The Claude chatbot maker expects to roll out a new safety system later this year that will still require enterprise customers to retain data for 30 days but... View Source

The company has launched an investigation... View Source

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn't been in compliance with Australia's Online Safety Act, including "allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16. While Roblox has put some ne... View Source

Bitcoin surpassed $70,000 for the first time in over two months, propelled by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s move to push US bond yields lower and a high-stakes meeting President Donald Trump held with crypto industry leaders. Bloomberg's Mike McGlone joins to discuss bitcoin as well as the recent climb in oil. Oil climbed to the highest in almost a month due to Donald Trump’s threat to cru... View Source

The Crunchyroll anime streaming service has started appearing on the Appning app store... View Source

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SPOILERS AHEAD! ANYONE YET TO WATCH "LEVEL-FIVE TRANSPORTER ACCIDENT" SHOULD PROCEED WITH CAUTION TO AVOID VIOLATING TEMPORAL PRIME DIRECTIVES.Back in the late '70s and early '80s, A-list stars were queuing up to guest on "The Muppet Show". Over five glorious seasons, the likes of Steve Martin, Diana Ross and Roger Moore were happy to have themselves upstaged by Kermit the Frog and his legendary f... View Source

The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series chips. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework's... View Source

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee explains Apple’s plans for AI-enhanced AirPods and smart glasses, and why the company should learn from Meta’s mistakes. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The adaptation of Sega's classic games hits Paramount+ on September 16... View Source

Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured new, stunning imagery flying low over a geological region of the Red Planet shaped by ancient waterflow billions of years ago. Mars Express launched in 2003 and is operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It's equipped with the High Resolution Stereo Camera, which scans multiple points of perspective across regions of Mars' surface to create 3D color... View Source

Wi-Fi Motion is an opt-in service from Xfinity that turns your Gateway into a motion-sensing device. | Image: Comcast Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Many people reacted with fear and anger. "I am not enabling this. I am also seriously considering replacing my leased gateway with my o... View Source

Flock is starting to feel the heat — or at least its PR team is. Last week, its CEO Garrett Langley offered a simpering public apology for abuses of its mass surveillance network after a Washington Post investigation found at least 50 cases of police officers allegedly using Flock’s AI-powered cameras to stalk women. Then in an interview with Vanity Fair days later, Langley insultingly sugge... View Source

Satellite startup Muon Space Inc. closed a $250 million funding round, raising capital from Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce Ventures LLC after launching 11 satellites into orbit and opening a manufacturing facility in California... View Source

Google is adding more options to customize your search and Discover experiences... View Source

Earth (ESD)EarthExploreExplore Earth ScienceAgricultureAir QualityClimate ChangeFreshwaterLife on EarthSevere StormsSnow and IceThe Global OceanScience at WorkEarth Science at WorkTechnology and InnovationPowering BusinessMultimediaImage CollectionsVideosDataFor ResearchersAbout Us This map, derived from NASA’s GEOS (Goddard Earth Observing System), shows an atmospheric river reaching Washington s... View Source

Google's new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you're interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one of five colors! This is a massive wasted opportunity for a feature that used to be so beloved on older Android phones,... View Source

Ant Group Co. barely grew quarterly profit after the company increased investment in artificial intelligence technology for its healthcare, large language model and payment services... View Source

It's been slow going, but it looks like Tesla's Robotaxi fleet in Austin is operating fully autonomously... View Source

NASA/Clayton Rougelot A jacket decorated with Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a terminal countdown simulation for the Artemis III mission. NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team conducted the terminal count simula... View Source

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives have departed, including some of the company's biggest names. Throughout i... View Source

Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev says clearer, more permanent crypto rules would give investors confidence that regulations won't shift with changing administrations. Speaking with Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC, Tenev says that prediction markets will survive regardless of whether the Supreme Court sides with states seeking to regula... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from high-supersonic propulsion systems to low-noise routes for small aircraft flying through cities. The agency made awards through its University Leadership Initiative, which offers ... View Source

Best Buy has a whole host of LG products discounted for today’s Deal of the Day festivities, including laptops, home theater gear, and more. One that stood out is a price cut on LG’s 65-inch B6 OLED TV that’s deeper than I’ve seen before. At Best Buy, it’s $1,399.99 (originally $1,999.99) for the rest of the Thursday, August 20th, which is currently $300 lower than Amazon’s price. LG B6 OLED TV Wh... View Source

The US Trade Representative’s mention of “digital trade alignment” as part of an agreement with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is fueling concerns about Canada’s ability to set its own policy for technology companies... View Source

Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn will have to pay millions to support local news outlets under Australia's new rules... View Source

4 Min Read The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. (shown here) participated in visual experiments during the Gemini V mission in August 1965. Credits: NASA/L. Gordon Cooper Jr. NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the... View Source

The Richat Structure (also known as the "Eye of Africa" in Mauritania in Africa as photographed by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from aboard the International Space Station. (Image credit: Jessica Meir/NASA)The "Eye of Africa" swirls across Mauritania in a hypnotizing snapshot captured from space.What is it? A 25-mile-wide (40 kilometer-wide) circular structure made up of concentric ridged rings sti... View Source

Amazon's speedy drone delivery service will soon reach 500 cities across the US - but that might just mean there are more pools to drop packages into. On Wednesday, ABC7 News Bay Area shared a video showing an Amazon delivery drone hovering over a customer's pool in Texas, before opening its hatch and plopping the package directly into the water. This isn't the first time Amazon's drones have deli... View Source

Chinese startup DaxAI has shown off a “Cyber Horse” quadrupedal robot that visitors of the recent 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, China, could actually ride. Video footage circulating on social media and photography by Reuters show visitors mounting the unusual contraption, a bizarre mash-up of a motorcycle and an oversized robot dog, and taking it for a spin. The robot’s... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has built a custom chip that the company said will improve the performance of its robotaxis, while also diversifying its chip supply beyond third-party companies such as Nvidia Corp... View Source

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of the two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Voyager 2: Sailing Among Giant PlanetsThanks to a rare alignment of the planets, NASA had the opportunity to send a spacecraft on an unprecedented journey to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.While Voyager 1... View Source

Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city's service appears to have finally gone fully driverless. Over the past two weeks, all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin monitored by the crowdsourced Robotaxi Tracker were unsupervised, the site's creator, Ethan McKanna, told The Verge. Those rides involved 54 diffe... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc. completed an independent investigation into its export compliance program, with the investigation team concluding the company’s senior managment had no knowledge of an alleged diversion scheme involving Nvidia Corp. chips... View Source

What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you're Waymo. For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute "brain" housed in the trunk of its robotaxis, including chip architecture, processor specs, and internal component details. The de... View Source

A massive trial is underway in California, where state attorneys general are holding Meta’s feet to the fire for its role in fueling a children’s mental health crisis. According to the testimony of former Meta safety engineer Arturo Béjar, the company has purposefully adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to keeping children safe on its platform... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s Switch 2 sales in the US this July were less than half what they were the same month a year ago, leading an industrywide hardware decline, according to Circana... View Source

Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft will no longer capture or boost the Swift telescope to a higher altitude due to an ongoing "attitude control issue," but will instead conduct rendezvous and proximity operations to collect data for future... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest AI customers, underscoring how demand for the emerging technology remains concentrated in the tech industry... View Source

My two cats live a refreshingly low-tech lifestyle. They've never experienced a robot litter box, an automated feeder, or a GPS tracker. Noodle and Loaf live blissfully unaware of the technological trappings that surround the rest of my life. Except, that is, for the glowing neon sign that turns on whenever they go to the toilet. I can't, and won't, take responsibility for the "On Air" sign. It wa... View Source

You might recall that back in October of last year, president of the United States Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself flying a fighter jet and dropping loads of feces all over protesting Americans. While this was a completely deranged piece of content for — once again — the president of the United States to post, and it’s probably safe to say that most people probably didn... View Source

Two US senators have sent a letter to TikTok executives demanding answers about an experiment the company ran that withheld a safety feature from millions of users, including a teenager who died by suicide. The senators, co-sponsors of an online child safety bill, called TikTok’s decision to conduct the test “depraved.”... View Source

Australia's safety regulator found Roblox still allows adults to contact children after years of pledging to stop it... View Source

Imagine looking at a vast city on Earth from a great distance, knowing nothing about that city; you may assume that its only buildings are the largest, most visible skyscrapers. But, get closer or look with a far more powerful tool, and you would begin to discover smaller buildings between mountainous skyscrapers. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that this looks like that is a fi... View Source

In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item - but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again. "After a while, I realized that I'm basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses," Hinkle says, referring to the f... View Source

Hudson River Trading signed a multiyear deal with CoreWeave Inc. to build new trading research and models using the tech company’s artificial intelligence computing services... View Source

LG has an unveiled a new OLED manufacturing breakthrough that will allow brighter, sharper and longer-lasting panels of nearly any size... View Source

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have an idea or need to b... View Source

Messages about weight-loss drugs are flooding the apps and affecting teens’ views of good health... View Source

Last year, Audi announced that it gave its all-EV-by-2033 plan the boot, and instead will offer a mix of gasoline, hybrid, and electrified propulsion. There's no doubt still some uncertainty among bigger automakers - especially those under the Volkswagen Group umbrella - when it comes to such a (now prior) commitment. Even so, what it's currently offering on the EV front is rather good, and fits i... View Source

Chinese AI models can build passable websites at a 75% discount to Claude... View Source

Sennheiser's latest earbuds are the rare ones that have user-replaceable batteries... View Source

We're just one week away from a stunning partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28, when billions across North America, South America, Africa and Europe will see Earth's shadow dye the moon a subtle crimson hue, while leaving a thin crescent exposed to direct sunlight. August's partial lunar eclipse will occur as Earth passes directly between the sun and moon during the full moon phase — an imperfect al... View Source

The artist, in a moment of quiet contemplation. | Photo by Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge The pianist sits before her instrument. She carefully extends a front paw, pressing gingerly on a key. She presses again, and again. She is composing some soul music, because something terrible has happened to her: The vacuum cleaner has come out of the closet. Yes, my cat is a tortured artist. When Jeeves is... View Source

The $200 Cirqa Smart Band looks like a Whoop tracker, but doesn’t offer the same level of health insights... View Source

The Swift observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this year, because NASA has aborted its rescue mission... View Source

The countdown is on for the deep partial lunar eclipse of Aug. 27-28. Over the next week, we'll be bringing you the latest eclipse news, viewing tips as well as live updates throughout eclipse night. Although this isn't quite a total lunar eclipse, it's pretty close! At maximum eclipse, 96.2% of the moon will slip into Earth's dark central shadow known as the umbra, according to Time and Date. Muc... View Source

Sennheiser announced the next version of its flagship wireless earbuds with a major redesign focusing on sustainability. The company claims the new design improves the Momentum True Wireless 5's "comfort, stability, and portability," but a more compelling reason to upgrade is that you won't have to replace them in a few years when they stop holding a charge. Both the Momentum 5 earbuds and their c... View Source

At this year's World Robot Conference in Beijing, Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree’s founder declared that humanoid robots could take off commercially in just two years. The industry is moving beyond viral entertainment, sharpening its focus on real-world uses—from factory assembly lines to household chores. Allen Wan reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Callosum, a startup that makes software to match specific artificial intelligence tasks with different models and chips, has raised $100 million in early financing from backers including the UK’s public AI fund... View Source

LG Display unveiled the new FLiPP panel process at IMID 2026 on August 19th. | Image: LG Display LG Display has unveiled a new OLED manufacturing method that reportedly results in panels that are brighter, longer-lasting, more efficient, and theoretically can be almost any size. This new technology is called FLiPP (FMM-Less innovative Pixel Patterning), which LG Display describes as a "dream next-... View Source

From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way... View Source

The philosopher Nick Bostrom was one of the first thinkers who mapped out the existential risk of AI. In his 2014 book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies he delved into scenarios — like the “paperclip maximizer” for instance — that showed the dangers that unfettered and highly intelligent AI posed to humans. A decade later, in Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, he looked... View Source

Samsung says it will be launching a new addition to its S26 lineup next week... View Source