Affirm’s fiscal fourth-quarter revenue rose 33% to $1.17B and GMV grew 36% to $14.1B, but CEO Max Levchin warned sustained higher gas prices are pressuring the consumer base using buy-now-pay-later products.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Act 60 generally doesn’t exempt US-source retirement income—mainland pensions, Social Security, and 401(k) distributions remain fully subject to federal tax after you move to Puerto Rico.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Vanguard’s How America Saves 2026 report (using 2025 plan-year data) finds women defer a higher share of pay than men at every income level, yet men end the year with balances about 30% higher on average and median.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stepped away from a Sunday post-launch news conference for about a minute to allow President Donald Trump to join via phone and congratulate reporters and NASA officials on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Caterpillar’s power and energy division generated more than $8.2B in Q2 (up 17% year over year), nearly matching its construction segment’s $8.3B and topping its operating profit at just over $2B, supported by a $72B order backlog at end of June (up 92% from a year earlier).
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Taiwan Semiconductor is expected to be the “ultimate winner” of the AI hardware race because it is the world’s largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry and is positioned to benefit from AI-driven chip demand regardless of whether Nvidia or AMD’s hardware is most deployed.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alibaba raised $10.2 billion by issuing 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 each, diluting existing shareholders by about 3.6%—about three days before Chairman Joseph Tsai bought roughly $10.3 million of shares and CEO Eddie Wu bought about $5 million at prices near the new-share issue price.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Enabling YouTube watch history and using positive and negative feedback (Like/Subscribe/engagement and Dislike/Not interested/Don’t recommend channel) can retrain YouTube to show fewer irrelevant recommendations over time.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
SpaceX plans to launch its first AI data-center satellites in the final quarter of 2027, with the network reaching real scale in 2028, using Nvidia chips and aiming for up to 1 million satellites.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Musk says building in-house casting for gas-turbine blades and vanes at SpaceX can accelerate natural-gas turbine production by up to 18 months, potentially adding more AI power capacity faster than waiting on the grid.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
SpaceX stock jumped from a $135 IPO share price to about $225 before dropping to around $105, and then recovered to about $140 (as of this writing).
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) has a distributable cash flow coverage of distributions ratio of 1.9x, meaning it generated nearly twice the distributable cash flow as its quarterly distributions last quarter.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully and will use a 300-megapixel infrared camera to survey the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble from L2 on a mission with a field of view 100 times larger.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
Microsoft says Xbox “birthday gifts” are really extra Microsoft Rewards points earned during your birthday week, which can be redeemed for limited items like Xbox gift cards, select game digital currency, or charity donations via the Xbox Rewards hub.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Apple has internally prototyped, tested, and considered launching a modified Apple Pencil for an upcoming foldable iPhone, but Mark Gurman says it’s unlikely the stylus would ship with the first foldable iPhone launch.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Engadget
OSHA data analysis found that test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 linked to hard braking or other sudden autonomous-vehicle movements.
Aug 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
An NFL+ plan costs $6.99/month (phone/tablet only) or $14.99/month (big screen) and the article pairs it with an OTA digital antenna to watch local games plus NFL RedZone (a seven-hour Sunday afternoon broadcast).
Aug 30, 2026 ·Engadget
A Dec. 31 Roth conversion counts for the prior tax year, but the related tax is due via estimated-tax rules by Jan. 15 and can trigger underpayment penalties before you file if quarterly payments were short.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia forecast 70% annual revenue growth for fiscal 2028—well above the Street’s 44% model—and CFO Colette Kress also projected $20 billion in CPU sales for fiscal 2027.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin is up 24% for the month as of Aug. 28, but Strategy’s mNAV has fallen to 1.06 from 3.89 in late 2024—cutting the premium investors will pay for its Bitcoin holdings.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
