Abbott Laboratories will pay $670 million to settle claims from about 2,000 people alleging its specialized preterm infant formulas contributed to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), while still not admitting liability.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
IBM says its unnamed 2-nanometer chip will let each processor core execute Arm and IBM Z instructions, or Arm and LinuxONE instructions, concurrently.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
Alibaba launched a HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) Hong Kong share placement—adding 710 million new shares—to fund its “full-stack” AI push across computing infrastructure, chips, and AI model development.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. same-store sales rose 2.6% versus the 3.8% Wall Street estimate, Walmart’s slowest comparable-sales growth in six years, and its shares fell more than 9% after the report.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Deere’s third-quarter net income rose 7% to $1.38 billion and EPS increased to $5.10 from $4.75, driven by a 18% year-over-year increase in Construction & Forestry sales.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
T. Rowe Price will acquire F/m Investments, which manages about $19 billion in fixed-income assets, adding 20 fixed-income ETFs and increasing T. Rowe Price’s fixed-income assets by nearly 9% while more than doubling its fixed-income ETF assets from about $6.5 billion.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SK Hynix union members rejected the tentative wage deal by 50.08% to accept, with 25 votes separating the sides (6.3% wage increase and changes to profit-sharing).
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is reportedly subpoenaing banks that supervised Situational Awareness’s trading and helped channel funding to the AI hedge fund, and warned them to preserve information about the firm’s activities.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Microsoft embeds an invisible 16-byte GUID watermark in AI-assisted images created in Paint and Photos, where the GUID is linked to the prompt ID chain created through server-side moderation of each prompt.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
Gradio’s built-in `gr.Workflow` lets you describe AI pipelines as a typed node graph, then deploy the same workflow as a REST API and as a one-command Hugging Face Spaces app with each output exposed as its own endpoint.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Hugging Face
MP Materials expects its newly signed, multi-year agreement to supply gadolinium oxide to a U.S. aerospace and defense manufacturer to be worth “nine figures” and to require expanding additional separation capacity at its Mountain Pass facility in California.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bank of America initiated a “buy” on Alvotech (ALVO) with a $7 price target after the FDA voluntarily ended its inspection of the company’s Reykjavik, Iceland manufacturing facility.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ESPN’s animated sports alt-casts use live player tracking (from NFL Next Gen Stats and Sony Beyond Sports/Hawk-Eye Innovations optical tracking) to generate real-time character animations synced to commentary via VR headsets and synced booth calls.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
Lenovo says some Legion Go devices may show a blank screen during BIOS version V42 installation and has removed BIOS V42 (N3CN42WW) from its support site while it validates a fix; users who finish V42 successfully need no further action, while those stuck can try holding the power button for ~10 seconds, waiting ~1 minute, and rebooting, otherwise contacting Lenovo Support.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
By late August 2026, fewer than 4% of S&P 500 stocks (16 companies) yield more than the 10-year Treasury—the lowest share since May 2007.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A free “What’s the Risk?” interactive tool launched in early August lets users visualize vaccine complication risks described as “rare” or “uncommon” alongside the risks of the diseases vaccines prevent, using side-by-side population risk displays per 100,000 people.
Aug 24, 2026 ·CNET
Oura is reportedly planning a U.S. IPO to raise up to $3 billion, valuing the company at more than $16 billion and following its $10.9 billion valuation at its September 2024 $875 million Series E round.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
More than half a year after the U.S. captured and extracted Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips have not returned to operating oilfields, while Chevron continues extracting and exporting oil to the U.S.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rolling unsecured credit card debt into a home equity loan/HELOC converts missed payments from a credit-score/collections issue into a foreclosure risk because the loan is secured by your home.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Franklin Templeton raised a $1.5 billion CFO (structured as tranches of rated, debt secured by cash flows from a pool of private assets it manages).
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
