Virgin Galactic delayed the start of commercial spaceflight to February 2027 and plans to raise suborbital ticket prices later this year after demand exceeded the initial $750,000 seat batch.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
The Register
OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar left the company about a year after joining, according to the Financial Times, and the loss of its sole ethicist is likely to increase pressure as OpenAI prepares for an IPO.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Meta has given up control of Chinese AI startup Manus after eight months.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Microsoft will unify its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into an “updated Copilot app” starting Aug. 18 for consumer users, adding Microsoft 365 tool access (Word, Excel, Outlook) plus email, calendars and cloud storage integration while retiring group chats and Deep Research in the consumer app.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Microsoft is removing Mico from Copilot Voice and moving it to Learn Live, while keeping Copilot voice responses for users without the gurning blob’s character.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenFactory is a pre-alpha service that can generate bootable custom Linux ISOs from an AI prompt or a selection menu, including validating, testing, and later reproducing the build via reusable recipes—though the author’s first attempts produced the wrong desktop (GNOME instead of KDE Plasma) and failed Calamares installs until bugs were fixed.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
TalkTalk Business and ARO plan to merge, creating a communications and managed services provider with about £200 million in annual revenue and a combined customer base of more than 70,000 companies.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Apple built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba Qwen, after revisiting its Google Gemini AI approach for the region where US models like ChatGPT or Claude are not available.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
A breach at Trezor’s logistics partner exposed personal data for 13,000+ customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses for 11,742 US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal orders placed between May 10 and August 8.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
DeepSeek raised API pricing for its V4 model family effective August 16, with increases of up to 1,100% depending on model, token type, cache-hit status, and peak vs off-peak usage.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
Public model repositories grew from 2.43M to 2.96M, datasets from 711K to 1M, and Spaces from 1.00M to 1.44M from January to August 2026, but the usage distribution remains highly skewed with 85.6% of models getting fewer than 200 lifetime downloads and 1.5% of repositories accounting for 99.2% of all downloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Google is removing Assistant as an Android option in September, leaving Gemini as the only official hands-free voice option for Android Auto calling.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
Iran’s central bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati said Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, with Hemmati seeking bilateral and trilateral monetary cooperation with BRICS member states.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Apple is exploring expanding its wearable lineup beyond Apple Watch—potentially including screen-free fitness bands, rings, and fitness bands—building on Apple Watch sensors and software and aiming to combine advanced fitness tracking with privacy in Europe amid the Digital Markets Act.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
Adobe’s Workfront adds “AI Collaborators,” letting permissioned AI agents be assigned and complete tasks inside projects, with outputs recorded in an auditable update stream for human approval.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
OpenAI is introducing “Premium” pricing for ChatGPT Business, letting enterprises give higher-capacity access to selected users alongside standard licenses.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) placed third globally in NAND memory chip shipments in Q2 with a 14% share, narrowly beating Micron and Kioxia and trailing Samsung and SK hynix.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Lovable raised a $400M Series C round and valued itself at $13.3B, following a $330M Series B round in December.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
Short interest in SpaceX fell to about 11% of its publicly traded shares on Wednesday, down from a peak of 34% last week, as stock rebounded more than 40% off its Aug. 3 low.
Aug 12, 2026 ·CNBC
