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

Samsung and SK Hynix are preparing record shareholder returns after investors sent their stocks tumbling over concerns around the sustainability of AI hardware spending. Bloomberg's Neil Campling has the details. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hays Plc will focus on hiring for roles that are harder to replace with artificial intelligence, as recruitment companies globally seek to mitigate the AI threat to the jobs market... View Source

Bloomberg reporters answer your questions about the gulf in AI optimism between the US and China in a Live Q&A on Friday, August 21, 2026 at 10 a.m. HKT... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. and its labor union have reached a tentative wage and collective bargaining agreement, featuring a 6.3% salary increase and a significant shift in how employee performance bonuses are apportioned, according to Yonhap News... View Source

Stecon Group Pcl plans to bid for three data-center construction projects worth a combined 49.8 billion baht ($1.5 billion), betting on the sector to drive further growth as technology investment surges in Thailand... View Source

A selection of winning images from DarkSky International’s 2026 Capture the Dark photography contest. It is the sixth edition of the annual night-time photography competition, which drew 2,288 submissions from 30 countries Continue reading... View Source

Comsol Networks Pty Ltd. is completing a multi-billion-rand debt and equity raise to build a new 5G network in South Africa, according to founder and Chief Executive Officer Iain Stevenson... View Source

Nangle Zheng, Strategic Investment Director at LeadShine Technology, says China has shortened the development cycle for humanoid robots from years to just months. He speaks to David Ingles and Yvonne Man on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 20 – The… 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. The Elephant’s Trunk in Cepheus Explanation: Like an illu... View Source

Rocket Lab will launch a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the action live.An Electron vehicle is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today, during a window that opens at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT; 1 a.m. on Aug. 21 local New Zealand time), carrying aloft a radar satellite for the Tokyo-based company iQPS.Rocket Lab will s... View Source

Alex Xia, Founder and CEO at Hangzhou-based robot hand maker Xynova, discusses innovation and industry bottlenecks. He also talks about and fundraising plans exclusively on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lawrie Conway, Managing Director and CEO of Evolution Mining, discusses the miner's full-year profit that saw a 59% growth year on year. He also discusses the company's dividend payout plans and potential acquisitions. He speaks with Paul Allen on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Humanoid robots will reach “mass market” popularity within a decade, after manufacturers solve problems that hold back their current usefulness, the founder of China’s Unitree Robotics said... View Source

Garth Jones, CFO of AIA Group, discusses the Hong Kong-listed insurer's 13% growth in value of new business in the first half of the year. He says the fundamental demand for business remains in China, but the company is also looking to continue to invest in ASEAN region, as it is a core growth engine. He speaks exclusively with Paul Allen on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pop Mart International Group Ltd. is poised to report a sharp slowdown in first-half sales growth Thursday, raising the stakes for a company that has lost roughly $32 billion in market value since the peak of Labubu mania... View Source

OpenAI said it will enhance safety processes for paying users who have access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models, stepping up its safeguards at a time when customers are entrusting AI with more complex tasks and sensitive information... View Source

Shield AI states that three X-BATs (with their Launch and Recovery Vehicles / LRVs) fit in the deck space of one legacy fighter or helicopter. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have a flight deck + dual hangars designed for up to two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. They could each hold six X-BATS in the space used for two ... Read more... View Source

Could the AI boom become a new source of inflation for the UK? KPMG UK Chief Economist Yael Selfin discusses how rising chip and AI model costs are filtering through the economy and why higher household energy costs remain a much bigger concern for the Bank of England. She joins Ed Ludlow to discuss on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sitara Sundar, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, discussed the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure financing, highlighting the significant role of private markets alongside public markets. She explained that a substantial portion of the multi-trillion dollar investment needed over the next five years for AI infrastructure, such as data centers, compute power, an... View Source

SpaceX approached Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition to gain ground in the AI race, according to people familiar with the matter. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Pixel 11 is $100 more than last year and didn't change a ton, but is still one of the best smartphones on the market... View Source

A spate of new releases show Chinese competitors are closing the gap on Silicon Valley, and winning market share with lower prices... View Source

Just because it doesn't meet the high standard its predecessor set doesn't mean the Pixel 11 Pro isn't a great phone... View Source

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An Apple Inc. effort to sell camera-equipped AirPods remains on track for 2027, despite a leak from the company indicating that the product might arrive sooner... View Source

There's nothing else going on that day, right?... 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 JPMorgan Private Bank Head of Alternative Investment Strategy Sitara Sundar, Ramp Co-Founder & Co-CEO Eric Glyman, D.A. Davidson Managing Director Senior Research Analyst Michael Baker, The Estée Lauder Companies President... View Source

Google's latest foldable sports some welcome upgrades, but its lack of a major design change is disappointing... View Source

It’s a camera. It’s a drone. But HoverAir doesn’t want it to be a drone where the FCC is concerned. | Image: HoverAir HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand's latest trick might be its riskiest: it's attempting to sneak a drone past the FCC. In December 2025,... View Source

A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Matt McClure, Goldman Sachs Global Co-Head of Investment Banking, Desiree Carlo, Senior Vice President, Client Services at Laurel Hill, Christian Nagler, Parter at Kirkland & Ellis, Betsy Cohen, Chairman and Co-Founder at Cohen... View Source

Amazon says it will serve nearly 500 US towns and cities with Prime Air deliveries by the end of the year... View Source

Greg Peters, Co-CIO of Public and Private Fixed Income at PGIM, discussed the Treasury's recent decision to boost debt buybacks for 10-year to 30-year securities. The cap on buybacks has been doubled from $2 billion to $4 billion, reflecting an aggressive move to manage the debt portfolio. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabelle Lee on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's a full rollout for the driverless vans in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles... View Source

Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Dubbed S301, the star reaches about 15,500 miles (25,000 kilometers) per second at its fastest — more than 8% the speed of light. "What is special about this star is that it's orbiting Sagittarius A* on a very tight orbit, taking just... View Source

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI... View Source

SoftBank has made a $200 million investment in Gravis Robotics, a construction technology startup specializing in retrofitting existing excavators and heavy machinery with autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities. Ryan Luke Johns, CEO and Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics, explained that the funding reflects SoftBank's strong confidence in the physical AI space, particularly in automating earth-mov... View Source

Eight leaked Steam Frame videos are informative and kinda silly... View Source

Google is trying to get you off your phone. The Pixel 11 Pro is "A Phone Designed to Help You Use It Less," the company promises. It can proactively help you book restaurant reservations, take the best frames from a video, and help you voice-text significantly faster. The pitch is that the new features bundled with the Pixel 11 series of phones can help fix your relationship with technology - one... View Source

Eric Glyman, Ramp Co-Founder and Co-CEO, discussed the rapid growth in AI-related expenditures, noting that companies have increased their AI spending by nearly 21 times over the past year. This unprecedented surge is driven by both the significant returns AI can deliver and concerns among businesses about inefficient or excessive spending by employees. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabell... View Source

The new cameras are prettier versions of Polaroid Now and Polaroid Go... View Source

Midjourney, best known for its AI-powered image generation platform, has announced Midjourney Medical to make full-body imaging system to scan a person in just 60 seconds while delivering image quality comparable to MRI. The scanner is based on Butterfly Network ultrasound chips rather than Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), potentially making it significantly faster and less ... Read more... View Source

If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how clothes and living conditions can rapidly turn rather smelly. Imagine that happening in a confined spacecraft.Even worse, since water on a space mission is in short supply, space travelers can't easily do their laundry. This is more than a body odor problem — unclean clothes and linens are ripe feeding grounds fo... View Source

Meta AI can create content and make suggestions based on what it “sees” on your screen. | Image: Meta Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation acros... View Source

A.J. Rohde, senior partner at Thoma Bravo, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." They discuss how Thoma Bravo has kept up an intense pace of dealmaking with three deals in six weeks. Notably, Thoma Bravo agreed to take Accelerant private. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The FDA has approved a first-of-its-kind automated blood draw device for outpatient settings... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Orbital Clarity Challenge — the sixth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a collaborative effort between NASA’s Heliophysics Division, Flight Opportunities program, and Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. The Heliophysics Division studies space weather, including how it heats an... View Source

NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn't overcome its own problems in orbit.LINK, the specialized probe from Katalyst Space that NASA contracted for the Swift Boost mission, was delivered to space on an air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket on July 3. The vehicle was designed to rendezvous with the Swift Observat... View Source

In order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use more information gathered from its partners' wearable devices. Today, Nielsen announced "a number of key enhancements" that are being added to its data capturing process ahead of the upcoming fall TV season. As of August 31st, Nielsen's co-viewing data will now i... View Source

While talk of an AI investment bubble usually centers around the designs of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the implications reach far beyond the borders of the United States. On Monday, an analysis published by the European Central Bank, first reported by Reuters, made the case that a “market correction” to AI investment euphoria is not only highly probable, but carries the potential... View Source

Bloomberg's Ryan Gould joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals."  Copart is in talks to acquire CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc., the car-insurance software provider that has been weighing selling itself, according to people familiar with the matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New gaming studio Black Pony Immersive has veterans from Arkane, Insomniac and Epic... View Source

Clips of what appears to be Grand Theft Auto VI have hit the internet, possibly spoiling aspects of the game ahead of Rockstar Games' deep dive debuting on Netflix next week and its long-awaited launch in November. I've seen three clips seemingly showing off the game, though two have been pulled from the site I saw them on "due to a copyright claim." The first clip (now removed) was a quiet scene... View Source

SpaceX approached artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would have been its second large takeover in recent months to gain ground in the AI race... View Source

College students can get a free year of Google's AI Pro plan, something that would normally cost $200... View Source

Despite our love for little "Baby Yoda", "The Mandalorian and Grogu" wasn't the thrilling "Star Wars" feature film to drag fans back to theaters when it dropped back in May. It wasn't bad, but it felt more like a TV special than a cinematic event.But now the $166 million space opera — recruited from the Disney+ series that ran for three seasons from 2019-2023 — is now about to enter Earth orbit an... View Source

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates and deadlines to your Google Calendar based on your syll... View Source

Fractile, a startup developing chips tailored for artificial intelligence use that has a deal to supply Anthropic PBC, is in advanced talks to notch a valuation more than six times higher than the price it landed in May... View Source

The $330 Xbox building set includes a controller that interacts with three game-inspired dioramas... View Source

This image was taken by an Artemis II astronaut from the Orion capsule in April 2026, as the spacecraft traveled past the Moon and back over 10 days. The gray-brown, heavily cratered Moon dominates the frame against black space, with a partially lit crescent Earth setting behind its upper-left edge. NASA Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space wi... View Source

AI on the wrist is one such experimental feature. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past week, I've been testing the Google Pixel Watch 5. In many ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. In others, it feels li... View Source

Unitree says that its new “Superman” humanoid robot can run faster than any recorded human. The Chinese robotics company revealed the new model on Monday, hyping up its athletic capabilities in a common marketing shtick. In a thirty second video, the robot leaps around two meters into the air, which is well over the human standing jump record of 1.7 meters, according to Guinness World... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at the expanded partnership between Marvell and Google for chip development, with Marvell giving the search giant the right to buy as much as $12.2 billion in stock. Plus, SK Hynix plans to buy back $29 billion of shares and return more profits to investors to stabilize its stock after falling more than 50% in two months. And, startup Fuse raises $100 million to... View Source

Drivers may be more distracted on days when a big new album drops... View Source

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, has orbited Earth for more than 20 years, studying the ever-changing universe.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher a... View Source

The Moderna Neoantigen selection. A tumor carries thousands of mutations. Only a handful produce peptides that get presented on MHC and recognized by T cells. Moderna’s pipeline takes next-generation sequencing data from tumor and blood samples, reviews the genetic mutations, and predicts up to 34 neoantigens most likely to elicit an immune response. That’s the ... Read more... View Source

Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter. The discovery could tell us about the source of cosmic "ghost" particles called neutrinos.The supermassive black hole in question is powering a type of quasar called a blazar. All quasars involve supermassive black h... View Source

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games from a PC or play them locally. Valve fir... View Source

Fuse has raised $100 million to accelerate development and commercialization of its fusion technology. CEO JC Btaiche joins Bloomberg to discuss why the company is focused on building generators faster, and why he sees private companies as critical to helping the US compete with China in the race for fusion energy. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Who wouldn't want to rest their tush on a green Xbox logo cushion?... View Source

The iPad Air M4 in space gray. | Image: The Verge Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Amazon and Best Buy have the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 chip on sale for $649. That’s $100 lower than the new retail price that went into effect (alongside plenty of other Apple price hikes) in June... View Source

After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. On Tuesday, the Sam Altman-led company rolled out an alternate version of the bot called “ChatGPT for Teens,” which is purportedly designed to help younger users “learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” The feature “pr... View Source

UBS's Nadia Lovell said that as AI influences more sectors across the market, traditional diversification has become more challenging, making healthcare an attractive option due to its strong performance, innovation pipeline, and relatively attractive valuations. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta's new Mac app is part of the company's push to make more business-friendly AI tools... View Source

NASA's veteran moon-circling spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has imaged the impact site of that errant Falcon 9 upper stage. The photos were taken on Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, just a few days after the SpaceX rocket body slammed into the moon near Einstein Crater at 5,400 mph (8,690 kph). LRO's high-resolution camera system, known as LROC, got good views of the aftermath from a vari... View Source

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training on its "latest models intended... View Source

Like a klutz on an obstacle course, a Tesla Robotaxi with no safety driver seemingly panicked after taking a wrong turn and plowed through a row of bollards, those springy traffic barriers that you are not supposed to run down. The incident was captured in a video uploaded Monday to the r/SelfDrivingCars subreddit and first spotted by Electrek. It was taken by a rider sitting in the front passenge... View Source

A personalized vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and Merck & Co. reduced the recurrence of melanoma in a large, late-stage trial, raising expectations for treating the deadliest form of skin cancer and showing the promise of the embattled mRNA technology. Bloomberg's Sam Fazeli joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Operation Blue Skies, which also involves the UK government, will subtly reroute flights to test contrail avoidance... View Source

I woke up on the morning of Aug. 12 and looked out of the window to something I hadn't dared hope for: blue sky. After days of scrutinizing weather models that seemed determined to test the nerves of everyone aboard the HX Expeditions ship MS Spitsbergen, somehow, against the odds, the clouds had cleared. Even then, I didn't trust it (especially after my 2024 eclipse experience). We had traveled t... View Source

The frost color scheme is nice, but it’s no pistachio or hibiscus. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge It'd be easy to overlook the Pixel 11. Want the best cameras? The Pixel 11 Pro is your answer. Want the best bargain? The Pixel 10A is still a great deal. But the Pixel 11 might be the sweet spot in Google's lineup this year. With 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, it delivers the same performan... View Source

Salt Typhoon revelations inspired an internal investigation... View Source

This goes way, way further than keeping an eye on license plates... View Source

About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters.NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way... View Source

A mysterious incident over the southern Indian Ocean forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around due to an unnamed hazard in space.According to several New Zealand-based news outlets, a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft left Christchurch Airport on New Zealand's South Island on Tuesday (Aug. 18) bound for McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Aircraft trackers using flight rad... View Source

Star’s extreme proximity to Sagittarius A* means it could open new window onto black hole’s fundamental propertiesAstronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way, hurtling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy.The star, called S301, travels at about 25,000km (15,500 miles) per second, 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. It is also the closest kno... View Source

The embargo has lifted on Google's Pixel 11 series, as well as for its Pixel Watch 5. Now we get to talk smack - just kidding, the new hardware is good. We have four reviews live on the site that you can peruse at your leisure. We're giving subscribers a chance to engage with us directly in an AMA later today. I'll be there (I reviewed the standard Pixel 11) to answer your questions, and so will D... View Source

A Bangalore-based startup has entered the crowded race to build artificial voices that sound human, with an AI model that garners high scores versus systems from OpenAI and ElevenLabs Inc... View Source

Here's everything you need to know about the current wireless charging standards... View Source

From left, Sean McCrary and Katie Mortensen, mechanical engineering technicians, paint NASA’s Artemis logo on the White Room connected to the crew access arm and mobile launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and... View Source

Moderna is up 130% today with success of a phase 3 trial on AI Assisted personalized MRNA cancer treatment. Major Progress to Curing Cancer From Moderna Melanoma Vaccine. Phase 2 showed 50-60% reduction in cancer deaths, but pathway to personalized AI cancer treatments. This is freaking huge: For the first time, a AI-assisted personalized mRNA ... Read more... View Source

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)People around the world enjoyed stellar views with last week's total solar eclipse. And the day after we looked up to see the moon obscuring out sun, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looked up to see its own Martian solar eclipse. What is it? Solar eclipses aren't unique to Earth. In theo... View Source

If you thought the online sports betting industry was running out of controversies, think again: they’re now letting users bet on ten-year-old baseball players in the Little League. As gambling experts Dustin Gouker and Eric Ramsey noted in a newsletter over the weekend, offshore sportsbooks are now allowing users to bet on the Little League World Series, an annual baseball tournament for ch... View Source

Scott Painter, chief executive officer of TrueCar, says automakers' incentives in "very soft new-car market'' are helping cushion consumers from the blow of tariffs like those being threatened by President Donald Trump against Canada. He speaks with Dani Burger on Bloomberg's "Open Interest.'' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You can now talk to Alexa+ for free if you have a Fire TV device and live in the US... View Source

The world of science fiction started with the written word, long before it hit the silver screen. Stories of man-made life, Martians, and other marvelous subject matter were being read long before the first sci-fi movie was released in 1902: Georges Méliès' "A Trip to the Moon". Some of these stories became classic tales that have been repeatedly adapted for Hollywood and television, think Mary Sh... View Source

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Fire TV device owners in the US for free. Starting today, users in the US with an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember smart TV, or other TV with Alexa Plus built in, including those from Panasonic and Hisense, will get access to the more conversational AI assistant. Previously, Amazon made Alexa Plus available to Fire TV customers with a Prime or Alexa... View Source

As vandalism against its license plate-reading cameras and backlash against civic leaders who embrace them grows, Flock Safety is losing its surveillance coverage at a breakneck pace. That isn’t just bad news for the company’s bottom line. It also means that its customers in law enforcement are able to draw on less and less data — making the company’s network a less attractive li... View Source

The youngest members of the US workforce are increasingly skeptical about artificial intelligence, fearful that advances in the technology will lead to widespread job losses, according to a Pew Research Center survey... View Source

Yet another Sony live-service game seems to be in trouble after reports of poor player feedback... View Source

On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines' first satellite launched into space. Before then, the country's only communications satellite was one that had been purchased from Indonesia after it was already in orbit. But 29 years ago today, the Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation sent its own satellite into orbit using a Chinese Long March 3B rocket. The new satellite was named Agila-2 in honor of the... View Source

SK Hynix shares surged following the announcement of a nearly $30 billion share buyback program. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow explains that the buyback aims to stabilize the stock after significant volatility, with shares having risen sharply in previous years but declining since June. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Top 5 things to see in the night sky with binoculars — ranked by an expertBeyond simple naked-eye observing, a pair of the best binoculars are the most accessible way to experience the night sky. They are affordable (although pricier models are available), very easy to use compared to telescopes and they offer a wide range of celestial sights, from our solar system neighbors to distant deep-sky ob... View Source

The Mova V70 goes places other robots can’t reach. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Robot vacuums are great at keeping your floors clean, but there are a few areas they fall down on the job - stairs being one. Another is chairs and stools. You know the scenario: You have a row of stools at a kitchen table, or chairs tucked under a dining table, and the robovac just can't get in and... View Source

A TikTok video shows a teenage girl walking through the front doors of a large high school. It’s filmed point-of-view style using smart glasses, and a hashtag in the caption reads “#metaglasses.” “Excuse me, could I get your Roblox?” the adolescent boy wearing the head-mounted camera badgers the girl.  “No,” she responds, glaring unhappily as she quic... View Source

Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, examines the impact of AI debt on the demand for long-end US Treasuries. Rosner also says she doesn’t expect much clarity in the FOMC meeting minutes on the central bank’s reaction function. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 Min Read Career Spotlight: Mechanic (Ages 14-18) What does a mechanic do? Machines and engines are all around us. They power everything from cars and boats to airplanes and even rockets. Mechanics are experts who know how machinery works, especially engines, and how to fix them. When you think of a mechanic, you might picture someone working on cars. But mechanics can be experts on all kinds of... View Source

China criticized the European Union’s use of its Foreign Subsidies Regulation to probe JD.com Inc.’s planned €2.2 billion takeover of German electronics retailer Ceconomy, calling it an “improper extraterritorial jurisdiction” and prohibiting compliance with the measures... View Source

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“Compute is an asset class! Compute is an asset class!” I continue to insist as I slowly shrink down and turn into a corncob | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sach... View Source

Marvell Technology Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced an expanded chip-development partnership, including a warrant from Marvell allowing the search giant to buy as much as $12.2 billion in shares... View Source

This screenshot shows the Mutiny (2026) page listing on Prime Video US, and the “resume” bar indicating that it’s watchable. | Image: Amazon / Dominic Preston / The Verge Jason Statham's upcoming film Mutiny is set to hit theaters on August 21st, but it can already be streamed in full on the US version of Amazon's Prime Video service. My colleague Dominic Preston was able to verify that all 1 hour... View Source

Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools. This is a slippery slop. As some experts argue, any intrusion of automation into the writing process isn’t just threatening students’ composition skills, but their entire ability... View Source

The Japanese gaming titan has canceled or rebooted most of its live-service multiplayer projects in recent years... View Source

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took images of the crater created by a SpaceX rocket crashing into the moon... View Source

The WSL’s first official fantasy game is putting player photos front and center, which is less common than you might expect. | Image: WSL Football Most fantasy sports leagues suffer the same problem: retention. Leagues play out over monthslong seasons, require regular attention, and can punish players severely for missing even a single week. I've started Fantasy Premier League (FPL) multiple times... View Source

When Dan Landau ordered a portable photo printer from Amazon.com Inc., he expected the confirmation email to tell him what was on its way. Instead, he was notified that his “luggage” was coming. In another instance, the 38-year-old head of marketing for a venture capital firm ordered items to maintain his pool and was confused when the company labeled them three different ways: “Decor,” “Outdoors”... View Source

Prime Air is launching in Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and New York soon. | Image: Joseph Ciembroniewicz/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images Amazon says its drone delivery service will reach "nearly 500 cities and towns in the United States" by the end of this year, increasing its coverage by six times compared to the current footprint. Prime Air deliveries will soon be launched in the Chicago,... View Source

The company seeks to extend demand for the technology to a time chips will be plentiful... View Source

The Apple AirTag may be a jack-of-all-trades - people use it for keeping track of keys, suitcases, backpacks, purses - but I think the most logical use case for it, by far, is keeping track of your pet. I attach it to my corgi Jelly's collar via a matching silicone holder. Have I ever once truly needed it to find her, and do I think she'd ever run off on me? No - she's a pretty loyal herding dog,... View Source

Data center opposition will be a drag on performance... View Source

Companies are now fighting to push through their projects in the face of growing opposition... View Source

Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form.Called GJ 523b, the exoplanet is about 2.5 times wider than Earth but packs roughly 23 times our planet's mass into that relatively compact size. Worlds this large and dense are sometimes referred to as "mega-Earths," an informal term for unusually massive, predominantl... View Source

Framework launched a second-generation of its colorful 2-in-1 convertible laptop. | Image: Framework Framework has refreshed its 12-inch convertible laptop, introducing Intel's latest Core Series 3 processors, expanded hardware customizations, and a pre-built Linux option. The cheapest pre-built base configuration for the Framework Laptop 12 now starts at $699 - $100 less than the previous version... View Source

Kuaishou Technology earnings fell the most in five years, hit by higher revenue sharing payouts to creators while artificial intelligence outlays drove spending up by more than a third... View Source

A roughly $1 trillion wave of capital spending tied to artificial intelligence could add to bond supply and keep fixed-income markets volatile as hyperscalers race to fund infrastructure, according to the head of fixed income for Asia at Robeco... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence data show that Europe needs to spend about $3 trillion through 2035 to reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers for AI and other critical technologies. To achieve full autonomy, much larger investments would be required. Bloomberg's Oliver Crook breaks down the report. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Traders remain cautious as concerns over loose fiscal policy and heavy borrowing by the biggest spenders on the buildout of artificial intelligence are expected to keep yields elevated. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sungkyue Shin, CFO of AI chip startup Rebellions, says the company is in active preparations for an IPO, with a listing on South Korea's main stock exchange as its top priority. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Paul Allen from the sidelines of the AI Summit & Expo in Seoul. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. unveiled plans to buy back 40 trillion won ($29 billion) of its own shares, moving to calm investors worried about the durability of AI spending... View Source

ByteDance and Tencent have received 10,000 H200 chips each, the Financial Times says, and other Chinese companies could follow... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is poised to pay just under 7% to borrow longer-dated funds in its debut Australian dollar bond deal, in potentially its highest-ever coupon, underscoring how broader demands for cash among hyperscalers around the world are feeding into more costly funding almost everywhere... View Source

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and David Ingles give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A global selloff in semiconductor stocks deepened as investors retreated from one of the year’s hottest trades. Shares of Samsung and SK Hynix slumped more than 7% in Seoul after losses in US chipmakers sent the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 5% on Tuesday. Bloomberg's Winnie Hsu has the details. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Christmas Island locals who woke to see the spacecraft floating off the coast hope global attention will encourage touristsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEngineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX are on their way to a remote Australian island to retrieve part of a Starship that dived into the Indian Ocean.The spacecraft – no... View Source

Robots built to move, work and act like humans. It’s a global industry Morgan Stanley estimates could be worth $5 trillion by 2050. It’s also one of the frontiers in the China-US race for technological supremacy... View Source

7 Min Read Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers NASA Johnson Space Center’s Imagery Acquisition Group poses for a group photo on Aug. 10, 2026. Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz The Imagery Acquisition Group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center poses for a group photo in Houston, Texas on Aug. 10, 2026. Back row, from left, are NASA photographers Bill Stafford, James Blair, supervisor M... View Source

James Peng, CEO of Pony AI, says the company plans to expand its robotaxi fleet across more Chinese cities to meet growing demand. He speaks to David Ingles and Yvonne Man on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The creator of Deus Ex is retiring... View Source

LG AI Research Head of Superintelligence Lab Lee Moon Tae shares his perspective on the future of superintelligence, the opportunities it unlocks and the responsibilities that come with building AI for the next era. He speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of 'AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2026'. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 19 – The… 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. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgra... View Source

Junghwan Lim, CEO of Korean AI startup Motif Technologies, discusses the company’s business strategy as it works to develop AI models capable of competing with leading global frontier models. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Paul Allen from the AI Summit & Expo in Seoul. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bain Capital subsidiary Proterial Ltd. is considering selling its wire, cable and automotive parts businesses, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

WiseTech Global Ltd. said Australian antitrust authorities demanded the company hand over documents and data as part of an investigation into alleged breaches of competition law. The company’s stock tumbled... View Source

Kavita Gupta, founder & general partner of Delta Blockchain Fund, joins Scarlet Fu and Dushyant Shahrawat on "Bloomberg Crypto." Bitcoin whales have added about 43,000 Bitcoin over the past 60 days, worth roughly $2.75 billion at current prices, according to CryptoQuant. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Raghu Yarlagadda, FalconX CEO, Carlos Domingo, Securitize CEO, Yesha Yadav, Vanderbilt Law School Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Kavita Gupta, Delta Blockchain Fund Founder and General Partner, and Anthony Soohoo, MoneyGram CEO. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China just notched another big spaceflight milestone.The Beijing startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), becoming the first Chinese company ever to do so during an orbital launch.It was just the second Chinese orbital rocket touchdown overall. The first was pulled of on July 10 by a Long March 10B, which is built by the state-owned China... View Source

Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion before the new money, according to people familiar with the efforts... View Source

David Hall, managing partner at Revolution, talks about how artificial intelligence is helping entrepreneurs of color compete. He speaks with Romaine Bostick at the Bloomberg New Voices event in Martha's Vineyard. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. introduced a new speedier computer built with the company’s chips, saying the device will give it a wider advantage over Nvidia Corp. equipment... View Source

Peacock is raising subscription prices for the fourth time in as many years... View Source

Unitree Robotics is set to begin trading in Shanghai Wednesday after raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in an initial public offering that will make it the first publicly traded humanoid robot maker in mainland China... View Source

You don't need your phone charger to keep your device topped up, as long as you have a USB cable and something to plug it into... View Source

Vietnam retained its crown as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing major economy in the second quarter, with Thailand the laggard, as tech and energy dictated varied fortunes across the region... View Source

Smart glasses have become a recurring accessory amid the immigration crackdown... 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 Capital Deputy CIO Jeffrey Sherman, Higgsfield Co-Founder & CEO Alex Mashrabov, Oppenheimer Managing Director & Senior Analyst Brian Nagel, The Katzen Team Founder Frances Katzen, AlphaSimplex Group Chief Re... View Source

The Framework Laptop 12 now ships with Intel's Core Series 3 chips and other hardware upgrades... View Source

There are reports that some power users are switching from Claude to SpaceXAI’s $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier. They cite slowdowns in models like Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 amid Anthropic’s usage boost ending August 19. They praise Grok 4.6 for its balance of intelligence and lower per-task costs on agentic tasks. Grok Bot adds always-on ... Read more... View Source

Australia's stock market maybe emerging as a rare safe haven from the AI-driven volatility rattling Asian equities. A nascent rally has pushed valuations to the brink of overtaking India as the Asia-Pacific's priciest major market for the first time in six years. Shaw and Partners Asset Management's Investment Director Julia Lee joins "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" to discuss what this means for inde... View Source

Gmail verification program lets political campaigns escape its spam filter... View Source

Fort Robotics, a Philadelphia-based robotics startup backed by Mark Cuban, is planning to go public through a SPAC deal valued at $500 million, with an expected Nasdaq listing under the ticker FROB. Samuel Reeves, CEO of Fort Robotics, explained that the decision to pursue a SPAC rather than a traditional IPO was driven by the need for speed and efficiency to scale the company's technology, operat... View Source

Apple has new in-app transaction commission rates for EU devs... View Source

Kaplan/Chinchilla scaling laws provide a broad description of the resources needed to improve AI. The measured relationship is that loss falls as a power law in compute: L ≈ L∞ + A·C^(-α), with α somewhere around 0.05–0.07 for language models. Each halving of excess loss costs roughly 10–1000x more compute depending on the exponent. Converting ... Read more... View Source

Joanna Strober, CEO and Co-Founder of Midi Health, joined the program to discuss the company's focus on providing menopause solutions for midlife women through a virtual care model. Strober explained how MediHealth's approach offers expert care that is often more effective than traditional healthcare providers, with 95% of patients reporting improvement in peri/menopause symptoms after at least tw... View Source

Two legit-seeming clips and a world map are out there, if you know where to look... View Source

Anthropic PBC plans to give Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and other co-founders shares with extra voting power as the firm prepares to make its Wall Street debut, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

How to check your iPhone's battery health and cycle count... View Source

Carlos Domingo, CEO & co-founder Securitize, joins Scarlet Fu and Dushyant Shahrawat on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss Securitize's launch of the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund ("HINC") and the company's recently announced earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple's latest software references watch-like "Faces."... View Source

Ringed worlds seem to be a fertile source of science fiction material, whether it be in sci-fi master Larry Niven's circular alien constructs in his "Ringworld" novels, the spherical megastructures of "Halo's" video game universe — which just launched its "Campaign Evolved" remake of the original game for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on July 28 — or the ringed orbital habitat for the ultra-rich depicte... View Source

The Nova 3P in eye-catching cyan. | Image: SteelSeries While many gaming headsets come with extra features, the tradeoff is that they’re often uncomfortable and heavy. A lightweight, affordable alternative that can connect to a bunch of platforms is available at Woot. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P in cyan is on sale for $59.99, a 45 percent discount from their usual $109.99 price. SteelSeries Arc... View Source

How the joule thief circuit “steals” energy from seemingly depleted power cells... View Source

Bitcoin whales have added about 43,000 Bitcoin over the past 60 days, worth roughly $2.75 billion at current prices, according to CryptoQuant. Kavita Gupta, founder & general partner of the Delta Blockchain Fund, says she sees a movement of Bitcoin, rather than buying of Bitcoin. She joins "Bloomberg Crypto." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Spotify's Running Mode is now available on Android... View Source

3 min read NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details This is an animated before-and-after view of the crater formed after a Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon’s surface on Aug. 5, 2026. These images were taken between Aug. 11 and 12 by the Narrow-Angle Camera on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. These images are enlarged three times from the original, with north facing up,... View Source

Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (Aug 18), becoming temporary TV repairpersons. Just like what frequently happens on Earth, the work required more time than the "appointment" allowed, requiring a second visit to be scheduled.NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agenc... View Source

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor's Instagram profile to be a "safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos, and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity... View Source

After AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others broke out of controlled tests and accessed real-world systems, new questions were raised about how they should be assessed before deployment. Those evaluations were run with Irregular, a startup hired to stress-test advanced AI models. But the sandboxed environment had a critical flaw: a misconfiguration meant the models could access the open inter... View Source

NVIDIA GeForce Now adds Firefox support on Windows... View Source

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the company says it institute... View Source

The speed of AI development means investors trying to stay ahead of the curve, need to move faster than ever. For venture firm GV, this means focusing on the application layer, having already made strategic bets on AI infrastructure and chip startups. Dave Munichiello, managing partner at GV, discusses GV’s early investment in Modular and its acquisition by Qualcomm, and why the firm is encouragin... View Source

Study finds X algorithm prioritizes ragebait that disproportionately impacts Democrats... View Source

A journalist says that his Tesla running Full Self-Driving nearly drove his car off the highway and straight into a ditch. Fred Lambert, the editor-in-chief of the electric vehicle blog Electrek, described this close call in a harrowing new piece. Had he not intervened, he said, the software’s blunder could’ve been disastrous. “I was ready to take control, and I did, but it was s... View Source

TikTok is exploring a feature that would allow users to send money to each other in direct messages, in a move that would extend the social media app’s push into financial services... View Source

Moisture and extreme temperatures are the last thing electronics in storage need... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new ways aircraft could inspect land-based infrastructure, such as bridges and tunnels, to improve safety, reliability, and costs by 2035 or sooner. Infrastructure is the foundation of th... View Source

When Donald Trump ascended to office for the second time, he promised to deploy an arsenal of high-tech surveillance gadgetry on the already dystopian US-Mexico border. At that point, tech in question concerned devices like AI-integrated camera towers and robot dogs. Now, it seems the federal government is looking to kick things up a notch as it seeks companies to fulfill a contract for humanoid r... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has deceived the public for years by targeting children on Facebook and Instagram with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users and drive up advertising revenue, a lawyer at the California attorney general’s office told a jury... View Source

Whoop's Advanced Labs health screenings will no longer require a subscription... View Source

The seas have been kind, or at least kinder than expected, to SpaceX's Starship spacecraft, as it's been tugged through the Indian Ocean to friendlier tides. Ship 40, the upper stage that flew on Starship's Flight 13 test launch, performed the vehicle's first successful intact ocean splashdown at the end of its mission on July 24, after lifting off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. T... View Source

The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro in black. If you’re looking for a feature-packed pair of earbuds that won’t break your wallet, Best Buy has the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro on sale for $139.99. That’s $40 lower than the current Amazon price, and a big discount from their original retail price of $249.99. These well-equipped earbuds feature excellent sound quality, crisp transparency mode, and a clear microphon... View Source

Home Depot Inc.’s results beat estimates in the latest quarter, a sign that spending on improvement projects is holding up despite high borrowing and housing costs. Bloomberg's Lindsay Dutch joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

PlayStation's $220 Pulse Elevate wireless speakers arrive November 12... View Source

Sony's Pulse Elevate wireless gaming speakers are launching on November 12th and will cost $219.99, the company announced on Tuesday. Announced nearly a year ago, the speakers are compatible with a PS5, PlayStation Portal, PC, and Mac, and they include "studio-inspired planar magnetic drivers" that offer "lifelike sound across the entire audible spectrum," Sony says. They also include a built-in m... View Source

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is no stranger to controversy, something he regularly uses to drum up press and raise the profile of his universally reviled surveillance company. While we may be giving him exactly what he wants, his latest outburst is so insulting it has to be mentioned. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Langley defended the utility of his company’s automatic license pla... View Source

There are generally two schools of thought in the Western space community when it comes to the prospect of China landing humans on the Moon in the next few years and very possibly beating NASA and the United States in its efforts to return astronauts there. Many people will ask what the big deal is. After all, NASA won the space race to the Moon nearly six decades ago, when Apollo 11 landed there... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s revolving credit facility is set to rise above its roughly $10 billion target, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence firm prepares for a highly anticipated initial public offering... View Source

Passwords are less secure than passkeys, even if you use a password manager. Here's why and how to get started with passkeys... View Source

Apple is once again overhauling App Store rules in the European Union, which the company says will resolve its "disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution." As part of the changes, every developer that distributes apps will be moved to a single set of business terms, and digital transactions for apps distributed outside of the App Store will be subject to a... View Source

Thoma Bravo-backed software firm Sophos is focusing on existing lenders to refinance or extend more than $2 billion of loans as soon as next month, after efforts to secure private credit backing faltered, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source