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
IBM is presented as having 58% upside and nearly 4x the yield versus Microsoft in the current comparison.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SoFi’s High Yield Savings Account shows 3.80% APY in the app header, but its base rate is 3.10% and a 0.70% APY Boost applies only for six months after you activate the boost in the Promotions section (after which it reverts to 3.10%).
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gamma acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to expand Gamma’s own design research lab, with Lica’s co-founders leading the effort.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Palantir (PLTR) stock rose more than 40% in the past month after the company reported stronger-than-expected Q2 results and solid growth prospects.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Walmart’s Deals of the Day for Aug. 25 include $50 off a JBL Charge 6 Bluetooth speaker ($150, down from $200), $70 off a 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G5 gaming monitor ($179, down from $249), and $40 off+ a Chefman Air Fryer Plus multicooker (10-quart, $85, down from $130).
Aug 25, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple confirmed Hide My Email addresses will remain on @icloud.com, reversing an earlier plan to move them to @private.icloud.com after users argued the change would make the addresses easier for websites to reject.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
MKS Inc. CEO John Tseng-Chung Lee sold 10,000 shares on Aug. 14, 2026 for a total transaction value of about $3.0 million, at a weighted average sale price of $302.01.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A jury convicted 71-year-old former Philips engineer Chih-Yee Jen of stealing X-ray tube trade secrets from Philips and transferring them to a Chinese competitor Kunshan GuoLi Electronic Technology to develop X-ray tubes.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
Intel priced an upsized $20 billion stock offering at $95 per share, selling 210.526 million shares to raise capital for potential investments and working capital needs.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley says Alphabet’s AI accelerator chip business is booming but is not enough to “re-rate” Google stock.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The dollar index (DXY00) fell about 0.04% after US July new home sales dropped 10.5% month over month to a 6-month low of 607,000 and August consumer confidence fell 0.8 to 89.4, both weaker than expectations.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nintendo’s refreshed Switch 2 bundles cost $550 with a 90-day Nintendo Switch Online membership—$50 more than the original bundle—when the Switch 2 console price rises to $500 on September 1.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Sony’s Xperia 10 VIII is a midrange upgrade with largely unchanged specs from the Xperia 10 VII but a 15% higher price, now costing £549 in the UK (around $750) and launching in September.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Ray Dalio said the U.S. could face a major government debt crisis in “three years, give or take two.”
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tokio Marine is nearing what would be its largest-ever acquisition, with Suncorp now the preferred target after months of evaluating Australia and Canada options.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple’s “new” polishing cloth costs $9 instead of $19 while keeping the same “soft, nonabrasive material” description.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
Klarna shares dropped more than 22% after it cut its 2026 gross merchandise volume forecast to $149B–$151B (from $155B+) and revenue to $4.08B–$4.16B (from $4.34B), which weighed on Affirm shares (AFRM) that fell 1.3% before rebounding 5.1% the next session.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
