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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an "Apple Reference Image" system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the point of capture - enabling users to prove where the photo originated, and that it isn't AI fakery. Apple Reference Ima... View Source

It’s not just you — the United States is going through a record-bustingly hot summer. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the contiguous US averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit in July, which is even hotter than the July 1936 Dust Bowl, an environmental and agricultural disaster marked by devastating dust storms. Much like the Dust Bowl, which was the result of bot... View Source

American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Anderson talks about how geopolitical risk is providing great opportunities to the insurer. He also speaks about clients that need to travel through the Strait of Hormuz, earnings, the ai buildout and how they use artificial intelligence. He speaks to Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cameras are typically banned in courtrooms, and Meta Glasses are no exception in England and Wales... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Telescopes Create Colorful ‘Craft’ From Nearby Nebula Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a s... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms (RIOT), a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity. Riot disclosed it had secured a 20-year deal to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a “leading frontier AI” company. - Rocket Lab (RKLB) shares drop as much as 5.7% after the compan... View Source

The streaming service has faced an onslaught of AI-generated music... View Source

Rainer Zitelmann has doctorates in history and sociology. He has authored and edited 32 books that have been translated into 35 languages. He contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Without property rights in space, one of the most important economic incentives for the commercial development — and ultimately the settlement — of celestial bodies is missing. The 1... View Source

GuliKit announced its first wireless controller to use an improved version of the anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) thumbsticks featured in its budget-friendly ES Pro that debuted nearly a year ago. Available now for $49.99, the new GuliKit ES Max is more expensive than last year's $29.99 ES Pro, but still cheaper than Nintendo's Switch 2 Pro Controller, while offering more features and... View Source

MTN Group Ltd. said adjusted first-half earnings climbed as much as 23% after improved results from the Nigerian, Ghanaian and Ugandan operations of Africa’s biggest mobile-network operator... View Source

The PS5 may not support Bluetooth audio directly, but there are workarounds... View Source

International Space Station Expedition 74 astronauts (from left) Chris Williams, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Jessica Meir inside the space station’s cupola waiting to observe the Orion spacecraft—with the Artemis II crew inside—as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere.NASA The International Space Station has been busy throughout 2026, as it continues to be a bustling workspace for astronauts conduc... View Source

The Lion Nebula glows gloriously in this new snapshot from the James Webb Space Telescope, made using data from the NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)The Lion Nebula glows gloriously in this new snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope using data from JWST's MIRI instrument. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Paga... View Source

Zoom has patched a major security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to hijack anyone's device during a meeting. In a blog post on Tuesday, researchers at A Security say they uncovered the flaw using "fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models," as reported earlier by Wired. The exploit involved Zoom's annotation feature, which allows users to draw on their screen while sharing... View Source

German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an AI-obsessed Wall Street last month. Some $35 billion of investors’ money, in the form of leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks, evaporated in front of the 24-year-old’s eyes as tech shares were hit by yet another major sell off. The humbling couldn’t have come at a... View Source

US sales of existing homes fell to a three-month low in July as elevated prices and mortgage rates continued to weigh on the housing market. Michael McKee reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The FDA approved Samsung's Galaxy Buds hearing aid feature, which will soon be available alongside a hearing test... View Source

4 Min Read Building the Moon Base: NASA Stories at the Ion   Shatel Bhakta, principal systems engineer for NASA’s Moon Base Program, gives a presentation during NASA Stories at the Ion in Houston on July 30, 2026. Credits: NASA/Sumer Loggins Shatel Bhakta, principal systems engineer for NASA’s Moon Base Program, gives a presentation during NASA Stories at the Ion in Houston on July 30, 2026. NASA/... View Source

Bumble backtracks on “women make the first move.” | Image: The Verge Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 - but now the times they are a-changin' for the dating app. Today, Bumble has announced a "global evolution to its signature conversation experience": anyone can now send the first messag... View Source

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water. One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a m... View Source

Spotify Technologies SA will begin identifying songs created by artificial intelligence with a new “AI Personas” label... View Source

Is Garmin's new option worth $100 more than the Fitbit Air?... View Source

Spotify will soon label AI artists and remove their music from your recommendations. The change, which will start rolling out in mid-September, means you'll see an "AI Persona" badge on an artist's profile across the app if they do "not represent a real person." The music streaming platform will allow artists to disclose that they're an AI persona starting today, but it won't rely solely on self-i... View Source

New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers... View Source

Neros Inc. raised $250 million in a funding round that tripled its valuation to $2.5 billion, money that will boost the defense startup’s drone development and production to meet rising US government demand... View Source

Motorola's Moto Watch looks like a capable and affordable timepiece, but looks are deceiving... View Source

Concentrations of dangerous pollutants from rocket launches and satellite reentries in Earth's upper atmosphere might reach treacherous tipping points if constellations of hundreds of thousands of orbiting data centers get deployed in the next decade, experts say.There's no question that Earth has an AI data center problem. By 2030, AI data centers may be responsible for up to 17% of electricity c... View Source

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn't name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. "Your Beauty item is confirmed!" an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: "Ordered: 1 Hardware item," "Your... View Source

As if the practice of homeschooling wasn’t fraught enough already, parents are now bragging about using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to school their kids. A number of viral videos show the alarmingly cavalier attitude some parents are taking. One clip, seemingly taken from a livestream hosted by the enormously controversial influencers Cole and Savannah LaBrant, shows the parent... View Source

Bumble Inc. will allow men to make the first move in messaging on its dating app, marking a major reversal from the company’s signature women-go-first model as it seeks to court younger users and deliver on a long-promised turnaround... View Source

Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity. After the deal closes, which is expected in ea... View Source

What’s the point of having a superyacht if you’re forced to share it with some unwashed poors? That’s the calculation the crew of a Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht, Launchpad, apparently made on the billionaire’s behalf, after a skiff near its location in southeast Alaska ran into trouble. According to the Alaska Beacon, a small cruise ship called Wilderness... View Source

NASA successfully executed a plan to extend the life of Voyager 2's scientific instruments... View Source

A spectacular total solar eclipse will coincide with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12-13. But will you be able to spot shooting stars in the false twilight of totality?Perseids appear as Earth plows through the stream of debris shed by comet Swift-Tuttle. Up to 100 shooting stars may be seen each hour around its peak under ideal dark skies, as particles from the ancient comet colli... View Source

Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," Anthropic says on a new Claude support page. The changes are invisible to human eyes, but will make... View Source

A New York City bill calls for the company to hire thousands of contract couriers. Amazon says the proposal will make delivery pricier and slower... View Source

The venture firm tosses aside its earlier caution to boost investments in the AI race... View Source

On August 12, the moon will pass in front of the sun, completely obscuring it in a solar eclipse. According to Nasa, parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and Portugal will experience a total solar eclipse. In the UK, there will be a partial eclipse, with up to 96% of the sun covered, the deepest eclipse the country has seen since 1999.But no matter where you’re hoping to watch from, it’... View Source

Mathematician James Maynard has spent a lot of time this past year "soul searching." A professor at the University of Oxford and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, Maynard told The Verge he's been grappling with the future of his field as the traditionally slow-moving discipline hurries to adapt to AI. Days before we spoke, OpenAI revealed it had produced the solutions to 10 long-standing mat... View Source

India is working to make cross-border payments easier and cheaper while promoting local-currency settlement with its trading partners, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said... View Source

Startups and Big Ag are using Crispr gene editing to create crops that taste better and grow on a hotter planet. But will they find a market?... View Source

Michael Lewis, CEO of German energy company Uniper, says the firm has identified more than 10 sites that could be sold or leased for use as data centers, with at least two in Germany and one in the UK. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks... View Source

OpenAI's Daybreak program now has two tiers, with the higher one giving partners access to a more advanced cybersecurity model... View Source

Recent findings provide one of the most detailed pictures to date of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, opening up new avenues for research into the disorder... View Source

How Apple’s massive manufacturing expansion in India is reshaping the future of global technology supply chains, on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 10:30am HKT, 8am IST... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Norwegian business software provider Visma reported adjusted revenue growing by almost a fifth in the first half, helped by a jump in its customer base... View Source

Moon is due to pass directly between Earth and sun on Wednesday 12 August. Here’s all you need to knowOn Wednesday evening, millions of Europeans will experience a celestial treat: a solar eclipse. A wide band of north and central Spain, plus a sliver of Portugal and parts of Greenland and Iceland will experience a rare total eclipse. The light of the setting sun will be virtually blocked out acro... View Source

Uniper SE has identified about 10 sites across Europe that could be sold or leased for data-center development, as the German utility looks to capitalize on surging demand for AI infrastructure... View Source

Indian lenders need to accelerate adoption of artificial intelligence by investing in technology and infrastructure besides training workers to upskill, central bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra said Tuesday... View Source

The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse is just one day away! Here's how you can watch the entire show live online from the comfort of your homeMillions of people across Spain, Iceland and Greenland will see the moon completely hide the sun during the climactic phase of totality on Aug. 12. Countless more skywatchers across Europe will witness a deep partial solar eclipse, as the moon's curved silhouette... View Source

Titan CFO, Ashok Sonthalia, says the company is planning to add 35 flagship Tanishq stores over the next one to two years. Speaking with Paul Allen on Insight with Haslinda Amin, he also discussed demand trends, the impact of India's higher gold import duty, and margin outlook. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nvidia is becoming the "banker of choice to the AI ecosystem" as it seals $500 billion commitments from Wall Street giants. Meanwhile, Intel is looking at its first share sale since the 1970s. Bloomberg's reporters and market watchers make sense of the multibillion-dollar figures, with one noting the capital raise could be a "double-edged" sword for Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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A network of cameras helped guide a group of space enthusiasts to New Zealand’s 11th confirmed meteorite Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month, Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black stone on the bare ground. The citizen astronomer was on the hunt for debris from the meteor that had flown over the North Island. He bagged the rock but wasn’t too confident, as... View Source

VinSpace Joint Stock Co., a unit of Vingroup, signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch its first satellites next year, as it seeks to build a domestic space business spanning satellite manufacturing, operations and data services... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six… 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. Six Moons of Saturn Explanation: How many moons does Saturn hav... View Source

A Long March 7A rocket carrying the ChinaSat-4B satellite exploded after taking off of from Wenchang space launch site in the southern island province of Hainan. The rocket had blasted off at 8.02pm Beijing time, state news agency Xinhua said, adding that an investigation of the failure was under way Continue reading... View Source

A workhorse Chinese rocket blew up while launching a communications satellite, state media reported, the second failure of the rocket family this year... View Source

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. So where are they?• The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to orderDuring a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turn... View Source

Donald Trump’s social media company posted steeper losses as it careened from a big cryptocurrency bet into a controversial new line of business selling faster access to market-moving posts from the US president... View Source

Asian banks are staging one of their strongest stock rallies in decades, a trend that may continue as investors look for a safer bet in the face of the volatile AI trade... View Source

Singapore upgraded its 2026 economic growth forecast anew as the artificial intelligence boom lifts trade and manufacturing, offsetting the drag from continued fighting in the Middle East... View Source

Amkor Technology Inc., a provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing services, is considering options including selling a stake in its China business, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Apple Inc. is still planning to offer a glass-centric overhaul of the iPhone for the device’s 20th anniversary, people familiar with the matter said, countering an analyst report that the move had been canceled... View Source

Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity, people familiar with the matter said, underscoring the Claude maker’s efforts to secure enough computing to meet its customers’ demand... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s biggest shareholder is an investment vehicle that holds shares claimed by rival SK Hynix Inc... View Source

Andrew Boak, Chief Economist for Australia and New Zealand at Goldman Sachs, discusses the outlook for Australia's economy ahead of the central bank's policy decision. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US investment giants including Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Intel Corp. is seeking to increase the amount it’s raising in a share sale to about $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a third more than it was targeting when it announced the deal Monday morning... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google pitches its artificial intelligence tools to corporate clients as a way to more quickly sift through a mountain of job applications to find the most promising candidates. Some of its own AI researchers don’t want to rely on these tools when recruiting... View Source

Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called "GHOST."GHOST — short for "Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology" — turns the company's "Electron and HASTE rockets into a launch-anywhere, launch-anytime capability for multi-launch flight campaigns and critical national security missions," Rocket Lab representati... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted his views on artificial intelligence in a 6,500-word essay published Monday, emphasizing his belief that wider access to AI models is key to the industry’s future. Rileyr Griffin has the five key takeaways. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg explains it all Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he'd used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he'd hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, "Do cool shit." I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What reaction was this man looking for? He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would say it w... View Source

OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in the company ahead of a possible Wall Street debut, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Reference Image could be a new way to prove provenance in the wake of generative AI... View Source

Webtoon Entertainment Inc. is buying a majority stake in a Korean gaming studio for about $100 million, in its latest push to expand a content portfolio that includes web comics, anime and gaming... View Source

Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter can power up to five devices at once. | Image: Anker If you’ve got international travel coming up, an adapter is essential for keeping your phone, earbuds, power banks, and other gadgets charged. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of our picks from our guide to the best gadgets for summer travel because it can charge up to five devices at once, yet it’s small enough to... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg touted his views on artificial intelligence in a 6,500-word essay published Monday, emphasizing his belief that wider access to AI models is key to the industry’s future... View Source

Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock, joins Isabelle Lee and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Hackers have stolen more than $130 million worth of Bitcoin from thousands of supposedly secure cold wallets in recent days. The Coldcard wallet hack may strengthen the case for spot Bitcoin ETFs by undermining confidence in self-custody among investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon is unsurprisingly fighting measure to stop use of contractors for last-mile delivery in NYC... View Source

Former NY Jets Linebacker Bart Scott sat down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick to discuss the Jets new advertising partnership with Outfront Media, the state of sports media, and Scott's future plans in the media industry. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Games look gorgeous on its 7.9-inch screen. | Photo: Brandt Ranj / The Verge The cost of the Nintendo Switch 2 is going up by $50 on September 1st, 2026, resulting in a $499.99 price tag for just the console. We’re just weeks away, but Costco is offering a fantastic $499.99 bundle for its members that includes a Nintendo Switch 2, a 256GB microSD Express card (usually $59), and a one year subscrip... View Source

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future. Called “The Future is for Everyone,” it’s so breathlessly optimistic about the technology that it ends up belying something that’s, instead, incredibly dystopian. But among all the deranged things he shared in the 6,500 word document, i... View Source

OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to help manage the expanding energy needs of the electricity-intensive data centers running its artificial intelligence models... View Source

To get a decent cell phone at or under $100, you're going to have to get creative. Here's what to do... View Source

Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don't care about. If you follow me, I may be that person, I'm sorry. I try not to be. You can hide reposts from individual users by going to their profile, clicking the th... View Source

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission approved an experimental and controversial new satellite being developed by venture Reflect Orbital to reflect sunlight down onto the Earth to illuminate patches of it at night for paying customers. The purported goal is to allow solar farms to continue generating electricity even after nightfall and provide illumination during emergencies. Those m... View Source

Mayuranki De, vice president of ETF Trade Strategy at Raymond James, joins Isabelle Lee and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." They discuss the Roundhill Photonics & Optics ETF (ticker: LYTE), an actively managed ETF that seeks to provide capital appreciation. The Fund invests in the equity securities of companies whose core technology involves generating, manipulating, detecting, or transm... View Source

New YouTube partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify for a cut of ad revenue... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Community College Instructors… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   2 min read Community College Instructors Bring Astronomy Textbook Into 21st Century Students studying the celestial sphere at Jackson College, Michigan. Credit: Steven Tuckey Teaching the beautiful and inspirational science of astrono... View Source

Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock, joins Isabelle Lee and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Hackers have stolen more than $130 million worth of Bitcoin from thousands of supposedly secure cold wallets in recent days. The Coldcard wallet hack may strengthen the case for spot Bitcoin ETFs by undermining confidence in self-custody among investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have shed light on a recent chapter in the history of our Milky Way's neighboring galaxy, Andromeda.Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of Andromeda's stars, a research team showed that the spiral galaxy's rate of making new stars has dramatically slowed down in the last 40 million years. And they've found more evidence that one of Andromeda'... View Source

As the US-China AI race intensifies, investors are weighing not only access to chips and capital, but which companies have competitive advantages that can endure for decades. Paulina McPadden, investment manager of International Concentrated Growth Strategy at Baillie Gifford, discusses why she “wouldn’t want to bet against China” and the durable moats she sees at TSMC, SK Hynix and ASML. She also... View Source

Deleting old files before throwing a storage device away actually offers very little protection... View Source

It's that time of year: On Wednesday, Google is set to host its annual Made by Google hardware launch event for Pixel gadgets. Google itself has already teased new slab-style and foldable Pixel smartphones, but leaks also indicate that the company could announce updated watches, a new color for familiar earbuds, and perhaps a brand new AirTag-like item tracker. However, unusually, Google's event i... View Source

A group of US investment giants are partnering with Nvidia Corp. on $500 billion in funding for AI infrastructure projects, the Financial Times reported... View Source

AirTags end up attached to all kinds of important items, and sometimes those items get wet. Let's talk through what to expect... View Source

Given how much I enjoyed the Project Hail Mary movie, I was beyond hyped to get my hands on the Lego Project Hail Mary set. And now that I've built it, I'm thrilled to say it does not disappoint. You could even say that it's amaze, amaze, amaze!The titular Hail Mary is the spaceship from "Project Hail Mary", the Andy Weir novel-turned-Hollywood blockbuster that carries Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling)... View Source