NexGen Energy said on Aug. 17 it is in talks with BHP about a potential equity stake and financing to support Rook I, as NexGen seeks to raise about $1 billion over the next nine months via prepayments, debt, or direct equity.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Moderna shares surged 177% on Aug. 19 after its personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, intismeran autogene (with Merck & Co.), met primary and key secondary endpoints in a Phase 3 melanoma trial of 1,137 patients, and Jim Cramer said investors should “hold on” because the vaccine is “very for real.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Neocloud Lambda raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
German-Japanese researchers demonstrated an electricity-free elastocaloric solid-state cooling prototype using two opposing nickel-titanium foils, achieving a 12.9 K temperature span at the refrigerant film level (and 4.0 K at the device level) under Joule-heated actuation at 86°C, and still 2.2 K at the device level when driven by an external 130°C heat source.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Register
Wheat futures settled 3.1% higher at 784 cents per bushel Friday—up 12.1% for the week and more than 54.5% year-to-date—while corn futures settled 0.6% higher at 536.5 cents per bushel Friday—up 5.5% for the week and 21.8% year-to-date.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNBC
Sega’s Crazy Taxi: World Tour, due out in 2027, is bringing back the original game’s fare-pickup loop, vibrant visual style, and late-’90s/early-2000s alt rock/pop punk soundtrack—now with multiple modes and free-form driving.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
Bitwise’s Solana staking ETF (BSOL) reached $1.017 billion in net assets as of Aug. 26—making it the first Solana ETF to cross the $1 billion AUM mark.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern expanded their merger application to the Surface Transportation Board with added shipper protections, including doubling Committed Gateway Pricing eligibility and extending protections for 3-to-2 rail connections, with a targeted closing in mid-2027.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Urban Outfitters (URBN), MarketSurge Growth 250 names DHT Holdings (DHT), and Oscar Health (OSCR) all hit new highs.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Colin Percival (creator of Tarsnap) has released Route 53 Files, a satirical “file system” that connects AWS compute resources to Route 53, mirroring the design premise of Amazon’s S3 Files launch.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
PayPal (PYPL) shares fell more than 8% after a Stripe-led group abandoned its $53 billion buyout pursuit, but Barchart options data pegs a bullish skew with a mid-December put-to-call ratio of 0.52 and an upper options price of $61.35, implying PYPL could rally nearly 14% over the next four months.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Warsh said the Fed must be “confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed,” or “we have work to do,” and his debut Jackson Hole remarks were enough to move markets toward expecting an interest rate hike next month.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Atrium Therapeutics (RNA) received a $15 million milestone from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) after delivering a lead RNA compound targeting an undisclosed cardiology indication under a collaboration that could pay Atrium up to $1.35 billion in R&D milestones, $825 million in commercial milestones, and low double-digit tiered royalties.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The chance of a Fed rate hike at the next FOMC meeting rose to 57% (from 36%), helping the dollar index (DXY00) rally to a 2-week high and finish up +0.61% while gold fell.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Disney+ and Hulu will stream video editions of six iHeartPodcasts titles beginning Aug. 10, starting with “Hey Jonas!” and including “Pod Meets World,” “Fake Doctors, Real Friends,” and “Thanks Dad,” partnering Disney’s streaming base with iHeartMedia’s position as the top U.S. podcast publisher.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An Anthropic paper reports that its Automated Alignment Researcher improved performance on all 10 alignment-benchmark sets of specific misaligned behaviors without degrading overall performance.
Aug 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Accenture says fiscal Q3 2026 consulting revenue grew 1% in local currency and attributed an expected ~$100 million consulting revenue shortfall to the Middle East conflict, with another ~$400 million impact cited in the region’s sales.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
September offers stargazing highlights including two meteor showers (Aurigids peaking the evening of Sept. 1 and Southern Taurids running Sept. 20–Nov. 20), a new moon on Sept. 11, Venus at its brightest on Sept. 18, the fall equinox at 8:05 p.m. ET on Sept. 22, Neptune at opposition on Sept. 25, and a harvest moon on Sept. 26 (full illumination at 12:49 p.m. ET).
Aug 28, 2026 ·CNET
Elastic (ESTC) delivered fiscal Q1 EPS of $0.70 on $478.1 million in revenue—beating $0.58 EPS and $469.75 million revenue forecasts—and raised full-year guidance to about $2 billion revenue and at least $3.29 adjusted EPS.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
PagerDuty raised its FY2027 operating-margin outlook to 25%–26% and plans to lay off about 15% of its workforce, primarily from non-customer-facing roles, after Q2 revenue rose 1% year over year to $124.4 million and Q2 margins were 24%.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
