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Victor Peng, CEO of PsiQuantum, detailed the company's unique approach to quantum computing, emphasizing their use of photons as qubits and their deep expertise in photonics. He explained that their architecture inherently addresses challenges such as photon loss and bit flips through built-in error correction, highlighting significant progress toward full fault tolerance. He speaks with Romaine B... View Source

X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster." He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his one-year anniversary on the job, and just weeks after Elon Musk's combined SpaceX / X / xAI companies went public. He says that "almost every aspect of... View Source

BNY has announced a new partnership with Galaxy Digital aimed at enhancing its digital asset infrastructure, reflecting the bank's ongoing commitment to expanding its presence in the digital asset space. Emily Portney, BNY's Global Head of Asset Servicing Business, explained that this partnership enables BNY to offer staking services for digital assets held in custody. She speaks with Romaine Bost... View Source

The terminal-based coding tool is powered by a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.2... View Source

4 min read NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. This artist’s concept depicts magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408, a rapidly rotating neutron star with magnetic fields over a trillion times strong... 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: Starboard CEO Jeff Smith, Salesforce Ventures Managing Director Emily Zhao, Dell Technologies Capital Managing Director Daniel Doctor, Breakout Ventures Co-Founder & Managing Partner Julia Moore, White & Case Global Co-Head... View Source

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It's always the way; you wait 40,000 years for a Warhammer series from Amazon Prime Video, and then two come along at once.Spinning off of Prime Video's animated video game-based anthology, "Secret Level," a new "Warhammer 40,000" animated series is marching down the creative pipeline. This spin-off series is spawned from "Secret Level's" "Warhammer 40,000" episode titled "And They Shall Know No F... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced the release of the company’s first AI coding agent, known as Muse Code, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC... View Source

This built-in setting might still be affecting your new TV's quality... View Source

Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish in the night. According to new reporting by MPR News, police in the city of Winona, Minnesota are incensed after their entire fleet of Flock license plate readers went missing. In a press release shared on Facebook, the Winona Police Department groused that “all eight of our ci... View Source

EBay Inc. reported second-quarter sales and profit that beat expectations, boosting confidence that its purchase of used clothing marketplace Depop strengthens its position against upstart Vinted... View Source

The House passed its own version of the contentious KOSA bill in June... View Source

The US government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence... View Source

A handful of high-level personnel changes are coming to DeepMind... View Source

SolarEdge Technologies CEO Shuki Nir says uncertainty over new tax credit rules for home solar equipment has made it more challenging for providers to raise financing for the systems and has led to softer customer demand for panels... View Source

Minecraft for the Switch 2 feels like a perfect place for mouse controls, but Mojang hasn't said anything about that feature yet... View Source

You might think you're done with the multiverse, but the multiverse is not done with you, as Apple TV preps the next season of its mind-bending sci-fi series, "Dark Matter."Adapted from New York Times bestselling novelist Blake Crouch's 2016 novel of the same name, "Dark Matter" is another stellar series from the streaming platform that's become the go-to destination for premium science fiction co... View Source

Privatize the profit, socialize the losses? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's... View Source

Temperatures in Japan have gotten so extreme that zoo animals are dropping dead — though this may be as much an indictment of the conditions that the animals are made to live in as it is climate change. On Monday, Tokyo’s Tama Zoological park announced that three of its female lions had died of what’s suspected to be heat-related illness. Their deaths occurred within five days of each... View Source

Julia Moore, co-founder and managing partner at Breakout Ventures, Emily Zhao, managing director of Salesforce Ventures, and Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, join Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Researchers identified more than 50 ads on Meta properties that violated the company's policies on child sexual abuse material... View Source

I Predicted SpaceX Q2 Earning $100B ARR, 2+ GW 2026- NEXT 18 Critical Months. A 40% spot uplift + cheaper power/shell + wrappers can pull the crossover forward by a quarter or more versus a pure long-term $35–50B locked-rate case. Risks remain execution on power reliability/permitting, utilization, and any broader rate compression, but the combination ... Read more... View Source

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly DeepMind's CTO, is st... View Source

The incidents are expanding and ongoing, according to an information-sharing center... View Source

The company is also planning to retire its public API... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Captures Phobos and Earth PIA26758 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Perseverance Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Captures Phobos and Earth PNG (1,001.21 KB) PIA26758 Figure A PNG (4.68 MB) PIA26758 Figure B PNG (4.65 MB... View Source

After Uber and Waymo ended their partnership in Phoenix earlier this year, experts and robotaxi watchers wondered whether the companies' improbable bromance was fraying. Not so, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said today. The two companies are committed to continue working together in Atlanta and Austin, and the partnership remains "very strong." "Waymo is a very important partner of ours, and we conti... View Source

Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have long garnered a reputation for allowing users to make all kinds of ethically dubious bets, from the outcomes of deadly conflicts to raging wildfires. And as the New York Times reports, Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether clinical trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed. But to researchers, it’s yet another morally ba... View Source

A Canadian real estate billionaire acquired half of tech investment firm Vistara Growth, committing as much as $125 million to a new fund in a deal with roots in a business school friendship formed three decades ago... View Source

This was one of the interoperability tools people used before Apple adopted RCS... View Source

NASA/Amanda Stevenson Technicians joined the Orion crew and service modules together on July 30, 2026, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew module will carry and sustain NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Andre Douglas, and Frank Rubio, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, while the service module will... View Source

Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound. Now, lunar orbiters are trying to get a look at the aftermath.This morning (Aug. 5) at about 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 GMT), the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon. To dissect what exactly happened, scientists are looking for imagery of the crash site, with the help of a couple of moon... View Source

Both the battery-powered and wired models are over $50 off. | Image: Ring Ring’s Wired Doorbell Pro and Battery Doorbell Plus are two of the brand’s most well-rounded video doorbells, whether you’re looking for a hardwired model or one that runs on a battery. Right now, its Wired Doorbell Pro is down to $199 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, while the Battery Doorbell Plus is on... View Source

Meera Pandit, Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, says investors need to be diversified within the AI trade as she sees sentiment driving flows between different AI sectors, while fundamentals remain intact. She speaks to Bloomberg's Dani Burger and Michael McKee on "Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Corsair's latest accessories have some handy features and don't cost too much... View Source

And you thought we were done with this one… | Image: Fenix Flexin We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier, which detects when a song was generated using Tr... View Source

Texas is tripling down on the construction of AI data centers, at any cost. But there’s a glaring problem that’s grinding construction plans to a halt: a woefully inadequate power grid that won’t be able to support all of these new facilities. As The Texas Tribune reports, governor Greg Abbott announced a moratorium for all new data center approvals on Monday. It certainly wasn... View Source

Evidence of OpenAI and Anthropic models using deception to carry out unsanctioned hacks has alarm bells ringing. Jordan Robertson explains why researchers shouldn't be surprised. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

At a time when storage space commands a premium price, SanDisk's Extreme Fit drive is worth a look... View Source

Apple’s MacBook Neo comes in four different colors. | Image: The Verge Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently discounted and available refurbished through the company, with the base 256GB model listed for $599 (usually $699 new), and the upgraded version with 512GB of storage and TouchID selling for $679 (... View Source

Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi says the business continues to grow and they're doing 300 million trips per week. But he admits there was a trip slowdown in Brazil because of more competition from local food delivery bikers. He speaks on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio."... View Source

Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual explosion that may bridge the gap between ordinary supernovas and more extreme, gamma-ray-burst-producing stellar explosionsThe event began in March 2026, when China's Einstein Probe spacecraft detected a brief X-ray flash from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. Follow-up obse... View Source

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite of tools "Rules Hub," and the tools let mods decide what rules should be automatic... View Source

Uber Technologies shares dropped after the company issued a bookings outlook that just met analyst estimates. Trips volume also fell short in the second quarter. Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi remains confident though and says there are no signs of a consumer slowdown. He also talks about expanding robotaxi partnerships in the US. He speaks to Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source... View Source

A VPN might compromise your Android Auto experience at first, but there are some easy workarounds... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This annotated composite of nine images taken by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z on July 2, 2026, shows Earth — the small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right — passing behind the Martian moon Phobos. The images in the inset were captured from the same rectangular patch of sky outlined in black.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU... View Source

There's a chance that you've already taken your big summer trip. If not, August and early autumn are wonderful times to travel. No matter when or where you go, there are some products that can make the boring parts of your trip more fun, and the fun parts of your trip even better. We picked a couple dozen products at a range of price points to best suit your budget. At the affordable end, we found... View Source

Being unbelievably wealthy comes with powerful perks — like getting away with being too cheap to pay people the money they’re owed. This, allegedly, is what Elon Musk is doing with one of the contractors who helped build his sprawling Colossus data centers near Memphis.  The contractor, Ohio-based Darana Hybrid, has filed two liens against SpaceXAI — formerly known as xAI, before being... View Source

Carlyle CFO Justin Plouffe says the firm has maintained a strong pace of exits for more than a year, with broad-based realizations across regions including Japan, Europe and the US. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Plouffe also discusses the M&A market, the "tricky" private credit environment and the opportunities in AI and data security. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Peloton's new bikes do more to warrant the space they take up in your home... View Source

Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surfaceGolden bands and swirling vortices have been spotted on the sun in the most detailed images ever captured of the turbulent surface of our home star.Astronomers observed the sun with the Inouye solar telescope in Hawaii, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, and saw new fea... View Source

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models from top... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. apologized to Indian officials for temporarily restricting a Facebook post of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking to assuage the government’s concerns in a key growth market... View Source

Like birthdays in late May and most of June, it's all about Gemini... View Source

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from what is now Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and spent the next five years making the 1.74-billion-mile trek to Jupiter.Next Stop, Jupiter! Launch Photos of NASA's Juno MissionSince it arrived in Jupiter's o... View Source

Ring has debuted a new version of its smart doorbell camera that's designed to be easily installed as a replacement for a door's peephole without drilling or running wires. The Peephole Cam 2K is a replacement for the brand's Door View Cam that first debuted in 2019 and, alongside a sleeker design, it features a bump from 1080P to 2K video recording, some tracking upgrades, and a cheaper price. It... View Source

At long last, a Moon landing for SpaceX — just not the kind it was hoping for. After months of anticipation, a discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is believed to have careened into the Moon on early Wednesday morning. It exploded on impact, causing a flash that may have been visible from Earth, and created a large crater. Astronomers, who have been closely monitoring the stray rocket... View Source

A leftover piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket likely slammed into the surface of the moon early Wednesday, about 18 months after being sent into orbit... View Source

YouTube allows AI-generated videos, but they have to abide by a specific set of rules... View Source

2 Min Read Advanced Mini-laboratories Automate Space Station Research NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson swaps out sample processors in the Advanced Space Experiment Processor (ADSEP). Credits: NASA The International Space Station hosts hundreds of science experiments at a time. Some experiments can take hours to perform, and researchers need to account for astronauts’ limited time. Fully automated dev... View Source

A close-up of the polygon fractures discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover highlights their honeycomb-like textures. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted surprising shapes in the Red Planet soil while exploring a large valley.What is it?These images were captured on June 19 and 20, 2026, or the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days of Curiosity's mission. They sho... View Source

Sunbird Messaging is back on the Google Play Store, offering Android users blue bubble privileges in iMessage complete with reactions and high quality videos for $2.99 a month. Apple and Google have made cross platform messaging better in recent years with support for RCS, but Android users can still cause issues in iMessage group chats, like breaking reactions and replies. Android Authority repor... View Source

Ken Griffin's flagship Citadel fund rose almost 6% in July after buying most of Situational Awareness's public stocks at a discount. Citadel is up almost 12% on the year. Fallout from the troubled artificial-intelligence Situational Awareness hedge fund is still rippling through markets. Bloomberg's Hema Parmar reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Creators will be granted access to a deep library of Disney assets to use in their videos... View Source

Disney is looking into launching a free streaming option. When asked about Disney's plans for free, ad-supported streaming during an earnings call on Wednesday, Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro confirmed the company is "exploring a free product for consumers." D'Amaro added that a free tier will help drive growth and expand the streaming service's reach "to a customer segment that's more price sensitive."... View Source

Google’s notorious AI Overview just handed would-be Flock vandals a perfect excuse to carve into the company’s controversial AI-integrated license plate readers (ALPRs). ALRPs are wildly unpopular, especially online, where privacy-minded communities trade memes and videos cheering on destruction of the surveillance equipment. One of the more popular bits in this space centers on the id... View Source

Investors hanging onto SpaceX shares after a plunge below their IPO price are bracing for the next potential hit, when $101 billion worth of stock becomes available for trading on Thursday... View Source

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Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting "breathing room" on the Red Planet without inhaling toxic dust is yet another issue.Given NASA's plans to eventually put astronauts on the Red Planet, the agency assembled a Martian Dust Limit Working Group earlier this year to review what's known and unknown about the toxicological hazard to human crews from exposure to Mars dust. The ultimate go... View Source

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apparently can’t believe that not everyone at the company is as noble-minded as he is. According to new reporting from Axios, which cites a source familiar with the matter, Amodei is concerned that the new hires at the $965 billion AI firm are joining for the money instead of its greater mission. Shocker, right? Anthropic pays some of the best salaries in the busin... View Source

Artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic PBC carried out “unsanctioned” actions — including hacking a website and attempting to inject harmful code into software during safety testing — reinforcing fears that neither the creators nor seasoned researchers of these systems can predict their actions in testing. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson joins Francine Lacqua on "... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 5 – Spokes… 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. Brad Croslin Spokes on Saturn’s B Ring Explanation: Don... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must face a class action lawsuit over alleged abuse of its dominance after an antitrust tribunal allowed a claim on behalf of hundreds of thousands of British firms to go ahead... View Source

NASA says its PUNCH mission has greatly advanced the prediction of solar storms... View Source

Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you were looking for, but after having watched its entire first season, I can confidently say it's something the franchise desperately needed.With several new Star Wars movies on the horizon without a cohesive plan in sight and a surprising lack of new live-action Disney+ series beyond Ahsoka Season 2, it seems like the... View Source

Matt McLennan, First Eagle Investments Head of Global Value Team, joins Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the market complacency created by a high concentration in AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Disney is introducing fan-created TikTok content to its Disney Plus app in its latest attempt to break into short-form creator videos. The Walt Disney Company announced today that it's partnering with TikTok to bring "an expansive collection of thoughtfully curated Disney-centric fan-created content" to the Verts video feed it launched on Disney Plus earlier this year, providing creators with acce... View Source

A new study shows how the big cats cause deer to move away from roads and deeper into the forest, where they pose less of a hazard to motorists... View Source

Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville Ives & Co., examines the first quarterly report from SpaceX as the company disclosed higher-than-expected spending on its artificial intelligence business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in... View Source

A startup has created beagles without the gene that causes runny noses and watery eyes for allergy sufferers... View Source

Family offices are particularly well-positioned to make these wagers... View Source

Circle Internet Group Inc. reported second-quarter revenue that missed Wall Street expectations after circulation of its stablecoin USDC fell from a peak amid a protracted slide in cryptocurrency markets... View Source

The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse is nearly here, and if you’re hoping to observe totality, you will likely be heading to Greenland, Iceland, or Spain. The UK gets a solid 90% show, while the US only catches a small partial solar eclipse.Wherever you're watching it from, do not look directly at the sun without ISO 12312-2 certified solar eclipse glasses — standard sunglasses aren't safe and won't sa... View Source

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core components - but the framework explicitly says it can't be used to restrict open models after they've be... View Source

Fast-fashion retailer Shein Global Holdings Ltd. is planning to start gauging investor demand for its Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Samsung's latest memory and storage tech is mostly designed for data centers, not consoles or PCs... View Source

Sandisk Corp.’s high flying stock tumbled back to Earth last month. Its earnings after the market closes Wednesday will test whether strong results are enough to entice investors to buy in again... View Source

The UK AI Security Institute says OpenAI's and and Anthropic's models engaged in deceptive behavior and harmful activity during testing... View Source

Nobody likes getting a swab shoved up their nose. A startup in Japan has developed a much less intrusive system... View Source

A potential ban on the import of Chinese optical transceiver modules into the US would inflict collateral damage on US hyperscalers, exacerbating a supply bottleneck that no American firm can ease, research firm Counterpoint warned on Wednesday... View Source

Australia’s federal government will press on with a nationwide push to ensure new data centers use renewable energy, pledging to pass laws despite opposition to the move from some regional administrations... View Source

If you're searching for an on-water nav app that also includes tunes, WhatsApp and other apps, there's finally a solution... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a 54.2% increase in monthly sales, signaling sustained demand in global AI infrastructure buildout by customers such as Nvidia Corp... View Source

Moove has closed a $250 million investment round led by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, which will help the vehicle-financing and fleet-management startup add services for self-driving cars and expand into new geographies... View Source

2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV. Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate that spans returning favorites like Silo and Sugar to all-new hits including OnlyFans-inspired dramedies, terrifying comedies, and paranoid tech thrillers. But the most important release might be a feel-good sports sitcom. After what seemed like a definitive finale, Ted Lasso is bac... View Source

Monolith Management, which backed artificial intelligence sensation MoonShot, wants to raise $500 million for a new fund focused on Chinese AI, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The message to compete head-to-head with the US carriers was delivered by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and CEO Elon Musk during the Q&A section of the company's first earnings call. "The spectrum that we purchased from EchoStar does have ter... View Source

Europe’s new €5 billion ($5.8 billion) technology fund has disclosed that its first investment is in Finnish satellite company Iceye Oj, part of the bloc’s push to cultivate startups working on strategic technologies... View Source

Infineon Technologies AG forecast revenue in the current quarter that beat analysts’ estimates as the German chipmaker profits from rising demand for its data-center chips and price increases... View Source

On Aug. 12, 2026, Europe will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1999, as the moon's shadow sweeps across Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain and the Balearic Islands. Along the narrow path of totality, day will briefly turn to twilight as the moon completely covers the sun, revealing its elusive outer atmosphere — the corona. Meanwhile, millions more skywatchers across much of Europe,... View Source

SpaceX reports revenue of $7.8 billion for the second quarter, topping Wall Street estimates. But Elon Musk's company reported an operating loss of $1.26 billion from its AI business. Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management says SpaceX is still a compelling stock to own. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Get ready stargazers! We're just one week away from the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, when millions of stargazers will be treated to a spectacular display as the lunar disk passes in front of the sun, blocking its light.Roughly 15.2 million people spread across Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, Russia and Spain will be in the path of totality during the total solar eclipse 2026, where the moon will... View Source

SpaceX’s revenue exceeded Wall Street’s expectations in the company’s first quarterly financial report following its blockbuster initial public offering in June. Elon Musk’s satellite, space and artificial intelligence conglomerate reported revenue of $7.8 billion on Tuesday, greater than than the $6.81 billion analysts polled by Bloomberg estimated on average. It also unveiled an operating loss o... View Source

SpaceX had their Q2 earnings call and guided to $100 B+ ARR. This was just over my bull case of adding three more Google Sized $11 billion per year ($1 billion per month) deals. Two weeks ago I made a video that indicated that SpaceX would add up to $36 billion per year of new ... Read more... View Source

Steve Westly, founder and managing partner of The Westly Group and a former Tesla board member, says SpaceX will be able to compete with the leaders in AI but it will not be cheap. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party warned of countermeasures against widening US technology curbs as Washington considers banning imports of some Chinese AI components, adding a fresh source of strain to the countries’ fragile trade truce... View Source

Rhodium Group Director Reva Goujon discusses the security challenges facing AI companies both in the US and internationally, and suggests that better coordination in the US and international regulatory environments could improve the reliability of cutting-edge models. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shenzhen Adtek Technology Co. is close to raising up to 2 billion yuan ($296 million) in a private fundraising round ahead of its planned initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

SpaceX stock fell after it disclosed higher-than-expected spending on its artificial intelligence business, dampening an inaugural quarterly report that broadly surpassed Wall Street forecasts. Bloomberg's Danny Lee breaks down the news. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zhongji Innolight Co. led a slump in Chinese optical stocks after Reuters reported that the US is drafting a ban on imports of some Chinese data center components to protect AI infrastructure... View Source

The glass door closes, and a curtain of cool air spills over your head, neck and shoulders, delivering instant relief from the punishing summer heat... View Source

Prices of lab monkeys in China have surged, complicating new drug development trials and increasing the need for primate imports from neighboring countries... 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 Invesco Portfolio Manager, Global Equity Anaya Lodaya, The Sundial Group of Companies Founder & Chair Richelieu Dennis, Mizuho Managing Director, Restaurants Equity Research Nick Setyan, ScottsMiracle-Gro CEO & Preside... View Source

That's a lot of capital expenditure... View Source

Piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket weighing four tonnes will hit the lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles per hourA four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is set to unintentionally crash into the moon at high speed on Wednesday, a collision that poses no danger to Earth but will leave behind a new lunar crater and afford an opportunity for further sci... View Source

Australia will cut the price of installing solar panels on warehouse and factory rooftops, the Australian Financial Review reported, in the latest move by the government to accelerate the rollout of green energy... View Source

Amazon's public fight with Perplexity over online shopping started in November 2025... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s stock faces a critical test this week as investors seek reassurance that the company’s AI value extends beyond its debt-fueled bet on embattled ChatGPT operator OpenAI... View Source

Pavel Durov claims there's "a potential systemic risk" for platforms with user-generated content... View Source

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probably never going to give up the Spider-Man film rights, and highlighted how Marvel Studios was smart to strike a deal to bring the character into its own films. But as successful as Brand New Day has bee... View Source

Coupang Inc. reported a larger-than-expected loss, underscoring the damage from a massive personal data leak that resulted in heavy administrative fines in South Korea, its primary market... View Source

The state already hosts more than 500 data centers... View Source

SpaceX will make some history this month, if all goes according to plan.The company aims to launch the 14th test flight of its Starship megarocket before August is out, Elon Musk said today (Aug. 4) during SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call. Starship will deploy viable payloads into orbit on Flight 14, something it has never done before — and there will be other unprecedented action as we... View Source

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call... View Source

Nate Baxter, CEO and President of Scott'sMiracle-Gro, appeared on the program following the company's recent investor day. He shared that although he has recently assumed the CEO role, his discussions with investors over the past eighteen months have maintained a consistent strategic message. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Electronic Arts is once again a privately held company, but it's saddled with $20 billion in new debt... View Source

SpaceX will launch three big direct-to-cell satellites early on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying three of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday during a 96-minute window that opens at 3:42 a.m. EDT (0742 GMT).You can watch the action live here at Space.com... View Source

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether or not to transfer an end-to-end encrypted copy of your previous messages to each new... View Source

OpenAI said Tuesday that some of its artificial intelligence models, along with models from another AI lab, were involved in three previously unreported cybersecurity incidents... View Source

Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform... View Source

For certain BMW owners, enormous car payments aren’t the only rude reminder that they don’t actually own their ride yet: now, irritating in-vehicle commercials will send them the same message. Starting last week, the German automaker started blasting a promotion for the new Spider-Man movie into its customers’ cars without warning — because nothing says riding in luxury like a fu... View Source

Sinead O'Sullivan, Economist and Former Senior Researcher at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, discussed the current state and future prospects of SpaceX's Starship program. She emphasized that while investors remain optimistic, the technology is not yet fully developed due to the immense complexity of Starship compared to the Falcon rocket. She speaks with Roma... View Source

The USB port in your car is likely not powerful enough to charge your laptop, but there are other options... View Source

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers... View Source

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its value, lost $1.5 billion this quarter, slightly less than in the same quarter last ye... View Source

US pipeline operators are racing to expand their capacity to help power new data centers... View Source

NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors ... View Source

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SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space compute SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June... View Source

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. At the same time, AMD's gaming revenue fell 31 percent compared to last year, to $779 million, as price hikes and component shor... View Source

Nothing escapes the sloppifying tentacles of AI. Not even precious parent-child reading time. As Wired reports, moms and dads across the country are having AI-generated children’s books inflicted on them by the tots’ well-meaning grandparents, sometimes creating tensions within the family.  Grandma and grampa think it’s cute to use AI to churn out a picture book with their grandc... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. disappointed investors with its latest sales outlook, a sign shareholders expected more of a return from the global expansion of AI data centers... View Source

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions... View Source

The Moon’s rocky, uneven, and otherworldly surface features are highlighted by the terminator – the difference between light and darkness.NASA Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger t... View Source

SapceX Q2 financials had $7.8 Billion of revenue and positive EBITDA. I had projected that they could have gotten as high as $8.6 billion but it was $7.8 billion. It was $1 billion over most analysts. The shares were positive but have dropped as the financial results are digested. This is likely a reaction to ... Read more... View Source

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would be taking the company private in a $55 billion deal, and on Tuesday, EA said the deal successfully closed. The PIF will reportedly own 93.4 percent of the new company. The deal includes $20 billion... View Source

Just when you may have thought there was a limit to human ambition, along comes one company which hopes to control — and monetize — the sun’s light using a fleet of giant space mirrors. Nothing good can come from this, explains Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lara Williams. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars... View Source

Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test. The results, presented Tuesday at the Committee on Space Research Scientific Meeting and under review at the journal Space Weather, could revolutionize the way Earth-impacting... View Source

Not immediately jumping on the AI bandwagon like everyone else is? It says something that Chili’s doing this— yes, the casual dining chain with the big red pepper logo — is being seen as shrewd decision making and not just common sense. Chris Caldwell, the chief information officer at Chili’s owner Brinker International, emphasized in recent interviews how the company wasn’t... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Palantir's blockbuster earnings results and strong commercial demand, with US commercial sales in the second quarter rising 149% from a year earlier. Plus, Apple exceeded $10 billion in annual sales in India for the first time last fiscal year. And, Palo Alto Networks doubles down on AI-powered cyber defense. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations... View Source

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple's App Store on Monday night. "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us," Durov says in a post on X. "This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more... View Source

Ever want to live underwater in a 35-by-8-foot tube? You may soon have your wish, if one UK-based startup has anything to say about it. New footage from Mashable shows a wild new project developed by DEEP, an ocean engineering company founded in 2021. Its pilot habitat, called the “Vanguard,” recently went online some 56 feet underwater, off the coast of Florida’s Tennessee Reef... View Source

Palo Alto Networks is launching a new AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to help organizations detect vulnerabilities and deploy protections in hours instead of weeks. CEO Nikesh Arora discusses how AI is reshaping both cyberattacks and cyber defense and why he believes enterprises will eventually dedicate as much as 15% of operating expenses to AI. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."... View Source

Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)... View Source

SpaceX has launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to the final frontier.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base today (Aug. 4) at 1:05 p.m. EDT (1705 GMT; 10:05 a.m. local time), carrying 24 of the broadband spacecraft toward low Earth orbit (LEO).It was the 90th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year and the 70th of 2026 devoted to building o... View Source

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of the internet has centered on how a creator can square a brand built on authentic... View Source

It’s a well-established fact that the Earth has been warming ever since the advent of industrialization. While climate skeptics have traditionally argued that the timing of this is merely a coincidence — that burning huge amounts of fossil fuels isn’t a significant factor contributing to long-term climate change — a new piece of research means they might have to come up with a new thes... View Source

Coatue Management’s hedge fund plunged 8.3% last month, marking the latest tech-focused money manager to be whipsawed after a sharp selloff in AI stocks, though sources say the fund is still up 14.3% year-to-date. Bloomberg's Hema Parmar joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Most Windows 11 users don't need to bother with the Pro version of Microsoft's operating system... View Source

Meet the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative — a passion-driven citizen science endeavour that shares breathtaking views of total solar eclipses while capturing valuable data on the sun's incandescent atmosphere.At the heart of our solar system is a burning ball of superheated gas 100 times the width of Earth, with a thermonuclear reaction raging at its core. Its radiation and gravity hold the pl... View Source

Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Memory and storage prices will be inflated for the foreseeable future, so we’re always happy to find a good deal on capable gaming hardware, like this discount on the Lenovo Legion Go S with a Z2 Go processor and SteamOS. Normally $1,137.41 (and selling for close to $1,000 at Best Buy), Lenovo has the handheld console on sale... View Source

Ophelia Snyder, co-founder of 21Shares, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss how Bitcoin miners are pivoting towards becoming AI infrastructure companies. They also discuss how the crypto market is undervaluing early stablecoin implementations results. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

BMW is forcing a weird Spider-Man ad onto its dashboard displays... View Source

The full moon of August 2026 will occur at 12:18 a.m. (0416 GMT) on Aug. 28, as the lunar disk shines directly opposite the sun in Earth's sky. Its arrival will trigger a breathtaking lunar eclipse late in the month, which will be visible across the Americas and parts of Africa and Europe as Earth passes between the sun and moon to bathe the lunar disk in shadow.August's full moon is often referre... View Source

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast fashion companies or beauty brands flying out influ... View Source

Meta has opened Pandora’s box with its AI-infused smart sunglasses. The pricy accessory has sparked a heated debate over privacy, with unsavory individuals abusing the eyewear’s easily-missed cameras to harass unsuspecting strangers in public — garnering the specs the distinctly unflattering nickname of “pervert glasses.” It’s gotten to the point that owners who shell... View Source

Caterpillar Inc. surged after the company crushed Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations and raised its sales outlook, easing concerns that demand for power-generation equipment used in data centers was beginning to cool. Bloomberg's Chris Ciolino joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

CMF announces its first pair of open-ear earbuds for under $100... View Source

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Danielle Lopez, Jennifer Claudio, and Duncan Mifsud. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star of the Month: Danielle Lopez Danielle Lopez is the De... View Source

The next crew, spacecraft and rocket to fly to the International Space Station are on schedule to meet their mid-September launch date, mission managers and the astronauts told reporters on Monday (Aug. 3).SpaceX's Crew-13 astronauts — commander Jessica Watkins and pilot Luke Delaney of NASA, mission specialist Josh Kutryk with the Canadian Space Agency and mission specialist Sergey Teteryatnikov... View Source

With great power comes great responsibility…to not justify ads in the name of movie promotions. | Image: BMW / Sony Pictures When a premium car brand like BMW says it has a "special surprise" in store for drivers, I'd expect something more luxurious than having a movie commercial beamed onto the dashboard. That's exactly what's happening to many BMW owners, however, who are being shown banner ads... View Source

Palantir Technologies jumped after the company boosted full-year revenue and income forecasts and described commercial demand for its data analytics tools as “otherworldly.” Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh joins to discuss this as well as how Anthropic has struck a deal for computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a months-old infrastructure startup, to keep pace with demand for its products... View Source

If you're done giving Sony money every month, cancelling PlayStation Plus is easy... View Source

NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya Technicians installed a commemorative plaque, seen in this July 28, 2026, photo, on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The plaque honors the legacy of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program. It also features a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 names submitted by people from... View Source

After previewing HDR10 Plus Advanced late last year, Samsung's not-Dolby Vision 2 spec will launch globally on Amazon's Prime Video this month. The first TVs announced with support are Samsung's 2026 lineup, which will be able to make use of the extra metadata to deliver more precise HDR that is optimized for what you're watching, and tone mapping that can adjust for specific areas of the screen i... View Source

There’s a new AI on the block — but not the kind you’re thinking. A billboard in San Francisco is marketing a service called ChatTJB, which the giant ad boasts is the “leading chatbot interface powered by AI.” But as noted in a tiny — and partially obscured by a tree — disclaimer on the bottom of the billboard, “AI” in this case doesn’t stan... View Source

Apple Inc. asked a federal judge to immediately order OpenAI to stop using what it calls stolen trade secrets, the latest salvo in its lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence company of engaging in a coordinated campaign to steal proprietary information about upcoming products... View Source

exFAT is best for cross-platform usage... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s rendering of the Moon’s South Pole region. Glowing points of light scattered across the lunar surface represent surface assets supporting sustained human and robotic operations near the South Pole. NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pol... View Source

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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is on a collision course with the moon, and skywatchers may be wondering whether they'll be able to witness the rare event firsthand when it slams into the lunar surface early Wednesday morning (Aug. 5).The 45-foot-long (13.8-meter), 8,000-pound (4,000-kilogram) rocket stage, left over from the January 2025 launch of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace... View Source

T-Mobile is launching a new financing option that will allow you to pay for a device, taxes, and fees over 36 months. In an update on Tuesday, T-Mobile says its new Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) Flex 36 requires no upfront payment and will come with a 0 percent APR for a limited time. Even if you are financing a device, carriers typically require you to pay sales tax, an activation fee, or a do... View Source

T-Mobile US Inc. will allow customers to finance taxes and fees associated with their new handsets in addition to the cost of the device, letting users take home a new phone with no money down. The initiative, announced Tuesday, comes as customers are keeping handsets longer and the industry is shifting away from providing device subsidies... View Source

Apple is requesting expedited discovery in an ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI... View Source

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to verify and audit new data center proposals, writing that the review is needed to "keep the grid stable and reliable." Da... View Source

A former Flock employee has quit the company in disgust, saying it lied to workers about how its surveillance cameras were used and that it used dirty tricks to silence its critics. The employee, Jonathan Paz, joined the company as a government affairs manager two years ago. Nominally, his job was to represent Flock’s “product as best as possible making sure that we can get approved at... View Source

Phantom Space CEO Jim Cantrell explains why SpaceX earnings matter far beyond one company. He argues that space startups must remain frugal, secure real contracts, and focus on profitability—and says SpaceX is evolving into something closer to a nation-state than a traditional competitor. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lexus' latest luxury sedan is priced right and drives great, but feels like it's built around outdated EV tech... View Source

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The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is a dependable laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune, despite being nearly three years old. It’s cheaper than usual right now, and you have a few options in the sub-$400 range. The option with the most storage is currently on sale for $399.99 (about $100 off recent prices) at Amazon. It has a 12th Gen Intel Core i3 processor (1215U), 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. If... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Wayfair (W) shares jumped after the furniture retailer gave third-quarter guidance during its earnings call. The company said it expects high single-digit revenue growth in the current quarter. - McDonald's (MCD) is rising after the fast-food chain reported comparable sales for the second quarter that are slightly below the sell-side consensus estimate, while adj... View Source

The main features of HDR10+ Advanced include Enhanced Overall Brightness and Intelligent Motion Smoothing... View Source