Meta reportedly paused/abandoned Project OT’s second wave of AI-focused layoffs after testing AI to take over many daily workforce tasks, with Reuters citing that internal AI efforts hadn’t delivered expected productivity gains and that employee backlash grew.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Engadget
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe improves speech-to-text by automatically detecting more than 85 languages, removing filler words, and converting unstructured speech into formatted text with self-corrections handled cleanly.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Raised annual guidance to 4% to 6.5% comparable brand revenue growth and increased operating margin guidance to 17.8% to 18.2%, assuming back-half tariff pressure moderation and continued interest-rate volatility.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Gemini Audio’s new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe automatically detects specialized jargon, supports more than 85 languages, and removes filler words like “um” and “uh” while providing word-level timestamps and optional formatting.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Capital F closed its debut VC fund at $17M to back companies focused on the “female economy.”
Aug 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Solana (SOL) hit $100 for the first time since February 2026, after rising 25% in the past 7 days and triggering nearly $100 million in short positions wiped out on August 18 when SOL rose past its 200-day EMA.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
JPMorgan is considering lending against SpaceX shares before its usual 135-day post-IPO window ends, ahead of SpaceX’s expected June IPO, the Financial Times reported.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DeFi Development Corp launched “State of Solana,” a public dashboard that consolidates real-time Solana market, network, staking, validator, and ecosystem data including SOL returns, transaction throughput, staking yields, inflation, validator distribution, and network uptime.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Radar transcribes and indexes more than 130,000 podcasts, including all Apple Top 200 podcasts across 135 verticals, with 20,000 episodes added daily, then uses that audio understanding to surface quotes, highlights, and timestamped clips for search and AI-agent use via an API and MCP.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Broadcom (AVGO) expects AI semiconductor revenue to exceed $100 billion in fiscal 2027, up from a forecast of $56 billion in fiscal 2026 and $10.8 billion in Q2 fiscal 2026.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ransomware victim listings in July 2026 hit a year-to-date high of 894 organizations, with global attacks up 22% month-on-month from June—yet NCC Group says some new group claims may be inflated, citing “inconsistent quality of evidence” for the new RaaS group CRPxO and assessing its credibility as “low to moderate.”
Aug 26, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Researchers demonstrated in vitro that two separate genetic codes can operate simultaneously by using engineered transfer RNAs and engineered ribosomes, producing two different proteins from the same messenger RNA depending on which code is used.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Perceptron launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model aimed at giving vision-guided robots the ability to “perceive, reason and act” in industrial settings like warehouses and factory floors.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Anthropic has filed confidentially for a potential IPO as soon as October and could pitch investors on future revenue opportunities above $30 trillion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bill Gates argues for a “robot tax” to discourage employers from replacing workers with AI-linked machines by limiting immediate write-offs and funding retraining and a safety net, alongside creating “Human Reserved” job categories that would bar AI from being used in certain tasks.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A consortium of 39 U.S. state banking associations plans to launch the “BankChain Alliance” bank-run blockchain network by 2027 to enable financial innovations including tokenized deposits and stablecoins.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Unitree’s IPO left it valued at $66B, but the company then lost nearly half of its value amid concerns that improving robot hardware still isn’t matched by know-how for reliable, value-creating work.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Bill Gates warns AI could rapidly replace human cognition across many industries within a decade, shrinking entry-level work and leaving “winners” likely to be a small group while “losers” are most of society unless governments adopt stronger domestic and international safeguards.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Andrew Ng says AI development careers require four skills: building/deploying AI apps (including LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows and governing statistical behavior), software engineering fundamentals (architecture, testing, security), using coding agents (understanding limits and how/when to intervene), and “shaping the build” with product sense and business context rather than pixel-perfect specs.
Aug 26, 2026 ·ZDNet
Christina Koch said she disconnected from social media during her first two weeks after landing from Artemis II and then relied on journaling rather than mission photos until she had fresh memories, to prevent forgetting details quickly.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
CNET
