Fasset hits unicorn status with $68m Series C funding
Fasset raised $68m in Series C led by Japan’s SBI Group to reach a $1bn valuation and unicorn status.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Fasset raised $68m in Series C led by Japan’s SBI Group to reach a $1bn valuation and unicorn status.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The article explains how to use Google’s Gemini app on iPhone for helpful tasks.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
ChatGPT Work is an agentic mode that can browse, manage files, and complete multi-step tasks (including opening a browser, moving through pages on screen, and creating/organizing files).
Aug 24, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Pershing Square increased its Meta Platforms stake by 20% in Q2, to nearly 10% of its holdings, and Appaloosa Management increased its stake by more than 50% in Q2, to a 5% position in its portfolio.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Aoris Investment Management says RELX’s AI-related products are already driving adoption, with around half of its legal customers subscribing to its premium AI offering about 2.5 years after launch.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (NYSE:IHG) closed at $159.91 per share on Aug. 21, 2026 and has risen 32.18% over the past 52 weeks, with an Aoris Q2 2026 investor letter arguing AI could improve IHG’s search and booking functions and widen its technology gap versus smaller hotel chains.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Visa frames its secure credentials, fraud controls, dispute resolution, and trusted network rules as increasingly important for “agentic commerce,” where AI agents make purchases—potentially boosting its transaction-based, 70% fee revenue as transaction volume rises.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Neura Robotics will take full ownership of Adlatus, a German maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping robots, and fold the fleet into its shared physical AI infrastructure, the Neuraverse.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Honeywell Aerospace Inc. (NASDAQ:HONA), spun off from Honeywell International in June 2026, closed on August 21, 2026 at $164.73 per share and has a market capitalization of $52.21 billion.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft Copilot’s “Search” mode provides citations and links, while “Smart” is faster for quick answers and “Think deeper” takes up to ~15 seconds for deeper, structured synthesis (vs ~3 seconds for Smart).
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Cerebras’ next-generation CS-4 rack-scale system is moving from a monolithic liquid-cooled chassis to a modular rack design with three chips, doubling clock speed and performance (and memory bandwidth and I/O speed) by pushing twice as much power through the silicon, with three times as much compute per rack.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Nvidia shares have fallen in response to earnings in 6 of the past 8 quarters, including the last 4, per Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace analysis.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fraudsters used AI to scan obituaries to target a widow, telling her her late husband evaded taxes and extracted $7,000 from her before her family realized it was a scam.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Xpeng’s robotics unit raised more than $900 million in its first funding round, valuing the business at over $6.3 billion in China’s embodied AI sector.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project to test whether an LLM can translate C programs comprising hundreds of thousands of lines into “safe, behaviourally correct and maintainable” Rust by first decomposing the code into smaller components.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Software Should Work 2026 is a “bingeable” streamed software-reliability conference with 13 videos you can watch in a day, aiming to cover reliability beyond code that merely “runs.”
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
China’s Manned Space Agency cancelled the planned Monday launch of Chang'e 7 after the mission headquarters said it failed to meet unspecified “launch requirements” and could not be carried out within this year’s scheduled launch window for the South Pole region.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Alibaba priced an 80 billion Hong Kong dollar ($10.20 billion) share placement—issuing 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 each—sparking shares to fall as much as 10% in Hong Kong Monday as the company plans to invest all net proceeds in its full-stack AI capabilities.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNBC
ZTE says its AI-driven intelligent energy management system can drive a full-stack dual-liquid-cooled battery energy storage system with overall efficiency of over 90%, in some scenarios fully replacing diesel generators as telecom and datacenter energy demand rises.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Novo Nordisk partnered with AWS and named AWS its preferred cloud and strategic AI partner to use services including Amazon Bio Discovery, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for data analysis, drug-target identification, and operational efficiency.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
