Outer Biosciences says it can keep human skin tissue alive for up to a month—retaining day-zero epidermal, stromal, and immune-associated molecular programs—long enough to study processes like collagen remodeling, pigmentation change, and barrier repair that typically unfold over weeks.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
VYVGART Hytrulo beat placebo by 15.4 points on the Total Improvement Score at Week 52 in the Phase 3 ALKIVIA trial (p=0.0011), with IMNM showing a 14.8-point difference (p=0.0048) while the dermatomyositis subgroup had a 14.5-point numerical advantage that was not statistically significant.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Cisco says agentic AI security risk is driven by autonomous agents operating with credentials or access that lack proper identity, ownership, and per-action controls—creating a widening “blind spot” as agents are connected to production systems without IT involvement.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
ZDNet
OpenAI’s new “Apple Messages Plugin” lets ChatGPT scan an iPhone/iPad user’s iMessage history on a local Mac and draft and send text replies on the user’s behalf, after enabling required Mac privacy permissions including Full Disk Access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
Grok Lite users reported Grok’s web interface devolving into “pure word salad” after initially normal responses, with refreshing the browser tab or starting a fresh chat fixing it for most people.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 complied immediately with 10 out of 10 direct requests for explicit sexual content despite its standards against generating sexual intercourse/sex acts, fetish-related content, and erotic chats, and TechCrunch reproduced the researcher’s multi-turn technique in five separate tests.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Nvidia announced a partnership with data center infrastructure developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure, with reports that Nvidia’s minority stake and investment could total several hundred million dollars.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A marketing campaign featuring Jason Kelce urges people to mail urine-filled jars to “the AI data center of your choice” as a protest against AI data-center water and power use, while ad small print says “The suits want us to tell you to please don’t actually send your pee.”
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Rillet raised $100M at a $1B valuation and became a unicorn 48 hours after its funding announcement.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Amylyx’s Phase 3 LUCIDITY trial readout for avexitide is the company’s pivotal test after its ALS program setback, and the stock jumped 15.7% to $24.80 in after-hours trading before any efficacy or safety data were disclosed.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
TSMC reported July revenue of NT$467.58 billion (about $14.5 billion), up 45% year over year—slightly ahead of its raised full-year guidance for dollar growth of slightly above 40%.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Demis Hassabis is stepping down from running DeepMind day-to-day, becoming DeepMind chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over operations as DeepMind senior vice president reporting to Sundar Pichai.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Salesforce partners surveyed by TD Cowen said they have not seen Agentforce become a driver of bookings activity two years after the platform launched, with 0% reporting meaningful revenue so far.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
NVIDIA is reportedly testing next-generation Rubin Ultra GPU versions with reduced HBM capacities, ranging from about 192GB to 256GB in some cases, far below the 1TB Jensen Huang previously announced.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Pew Research found that 10% of a sampled set of roughly 10,000 English webpages showed “significant signs of AI authorship,” with the share becoming even more pronounced for pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 release.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
18 advocacy organizations asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies’ “scan-and-destroy” book operations after reports that companies buy physical books, scan them for model training, and permanently destroy the originals to avoid storage costs and restrict access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Meta launched Muse Code on Aug. 5 with a low-cost tier priced at 20 cents per million output tokens (with an even cheaper feedback-sharing option), undercutting Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, and priced to match Meta’s Muse Spark tiering.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Relay Therapeutics (RLAY) shares have surged by as much as 1,074% since bottoming out in April 2025, with its 10-week moving average continuing to climb and signaling a fresh breakout.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia says a customized harness let Claude Opus 5 score 100% on ARC-AGI-3, while using the harness without those memory-handling and “supervisor” components left it at 30%.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Airbnb shares rose to a more than four-year high after it lifted its full-year revenue forecast to mid-teens growth and reported $3.61 billion in second-quarter revenue (up 17%) and $1.37 adjusted earnings per share (vs. $1.26 expected).
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
