MicroCloud Hologram bought 140,268 shares of Strategy (MSTR) for about $16 million, its first Strategy investment, to expand its Bitcoin-related digital asset footprint.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Lowe’s cut its full-year outlook and now expects comparable sales to be approximately flat after Q2 organic comparable sales rose just 0.2% (vs 0.8% expected), even as total sales climbed 8.3% to $25.96B and adjusted diluted earnings hit $4.40/share.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
You can redeem Google Play Points for gift cards priced at $5 for 750 points, $10 for 1,500 points, and $20 for 3,000 points (including options like Starbucks, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, DoorDash, Uber, and Amazon).
Aug 25, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York have paused or banned new data center projects, reflecting political backlash that Palihapitiya says could tighten AI infrastructure funding.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Mint Mobile users on crowded networks can face data deprioritization versus higher-priority MNO customers (e.g., during a Bruno Mars show at MetLife Stadium), but you can mitigate it by forcing LTE instead of 5G or using VPN + public Wi‑Fi in public areas like bars and airports.
Aug 25, 2026 ·ZDNet
Waymo plans to begin commercial robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, its first European Union location.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple says the new Mac mini will be its flagship “Made in USA” Mac with final assembly in the US in Houston this year, replacing the now-discontinued Mac Pro.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Soluna Holdings signed a 28-megawatt co-mining agreement with Bitdeer to add about 1.93 EH/s of Bitcoin mining capacity at Soluna’s wind-powered Project Kati 1 in South Texas.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
FydeOS is a free, Linux-based OS that can be installed on older laptops/desktops to deliver a ChromeOS-like experience, including web, Android (claimed) and Linux app support, background updates, and fast booting (about 8 seconds).
Aug 25, 2026 ·ZDNet
Pacific Fusion broke ground on a New Mexico facility aimed at achieving net facility gain—generating as much energy as it consumes—with a handful of fusion “shots” per day as it works toward net facility gain by 2030.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Lego’s first-half revenue rose 21% to about $6.55 billion and pre-tax profit jumped by about a third to roughly $1.77 billion, building on 2025 revenue of about $13.05 billion and operating profit of roughly $3.44 billion.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitwise launched Automated Token Portfolios (ATPs) that let eligible investors automatically track rules-based themes of tokenized U.S. stocks while keeping the tokenized shares in their own non-custodial wallets.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX (SPCX) shares fell nearly 5% to $132.69 and slipped below its $135 IPO price after failing to break above $150, its June 12 open.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
JPMorgan’s James Sullivan said Treasury’s plan to fund a $4B bond buyback by issuing shorter-term bonds is like “paying your mortgage with your credit card,” deferring—but not solving—the maturity mismatch problem.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump’s market-moving pronouncements in the U.S. are driving immediate trading activity among UAE retail investors that now exceeds the impact of Federal Reserve decisions, CPI releases, and U.S. jobless numbers, according to Dubai-based brokerage and trading executives.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AIR Global’s 1H26 revenue rose 3.7% y/y to $206.9 million and adjusted EBITDA held stable at $71.7 million despite FSM shipment volumes falling 9.0% during the Strait of Hormuz disruption.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI banned accounts it said were part of a Russia-linked influence operation that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts and comments promoting a purported fake Israeli think tank, and said the operation’s immediate audience impact was limited despite more elaborate infrastructure.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
Granite 4.2 is IBM and the Granite Team’s first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning LLMs, released in three sizes (3B, 8B, 30B) and trained from scratch on ~15T tokens with a pipeline that includes long-context extension to 512K tokens, supervised fine-tuning on chain-of-thought/reasoning/agentic-trajectory data, and multi-stage reinforcement learning with agentic RL in sandboxed environments.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Hugging Face
About three-quarters of the FDA-cleared 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices as of early 2026 are for radiology, where AI matches or exceeds radiologists on some image tasks but still requires physicians to evaluate and overrule decisions—especially because many AI systems are “black box” neural networks that can be wrong in ways humans don’t expect.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Boeing secured a $131 billion contract for F-15 fighter jets, and an analyst raised Booz Allen’s targets.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
