Alibaba will issue 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 in a ~$10.2 billion equity raise, diluting existing shareholders by roughly 3.6% to fund additional AI investment.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Samsung’s My FanCam (Galaxy AI) lets you reframe already-recorded videos by choosing a person afterward and creating a tighter tracking shot around them in a selected aspect ratio.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
About 25% of US adults (3,488 surveyed) use AI chatbots to diagnose symptoms, and Pew reports 72% say it’s extremely or very important for medical providers to disclose any AI use.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple will charge a 5% commission on in-app purchases for apps sold through alternative app stores in the EU, as part of a new EU fee structure designed to resolve its Digital Markets Act disputes.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
You may not need travel insurance for every trip, but it’s most useful when you have expensive, prepaid, nonrefundable costs or medical risk—especially on international trips, cruises, or vacations where canceling would cost you a meaningful amount of money.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Some LG connected monitors installed the “LG Monitor App Installer” (via driver-update flows on Windows Update) to push McAfee pop-up ads onto third-party computers, prompting Microsoft to force their removal.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit tables start at $12,500 and include a 6’ x 30” Expo Hall table plus 10 Disrupt passes, with the exhibit offer ending when the last table sells out or September 25, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Coinbase says it has launched tokenized versions of stocks including Apple, Nvidia, and Alphabet on its Base blockchain, with tokens intended to represent shares held 1:1 and track the underlying stock’s spot price.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon raised prices on several electronics products—including Echo devices, Fire TV sticks, Kindles, and Eero kits—by up to 60%, including an Echo Dot (5th Gen) jumping from $50 to $80.
Aug 24, 2026 ·CNET
Crypto exchange trading volumes reached $37 billion over the last week—double from the prior period—as Bitcoin gained 24% and Ethereum rose 34% over the same five-day span.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Threads is testing automatic podcast transcription for audio clips so people can read along in their feeds even with sound off.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Engadget
Amazon dropped the EcoFlow River 3 Max bundle to $319 (from $399), matching its record-low price, and it totals 572 watt-hours by pairing the River 3 Plus with the EB300 extra battery.
Aug 24, 2026 ·CNET
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether OpenAI’s “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident violated the state’s consumer protection laws.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet after defining “planets” as objects that (1) orbit a star, (2) are massive enough to become nearly round, and (3) have cleared the neighborhood around their orbit of similar-size objects.
Aug 24, 2026 ·CNET
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad will appear on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A 3D gun file repository operator says he created a workaround—“Hochulization”—that changes the hash used by printer gun-detection systems by adding bytes without changing the function of the printed gun parts.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
Deadline to apply for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events is September 4, with custom events held October 10–16 and Disrupt running October 13–15 in San Francisco.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The U.S. Treasury will keep its regularly scheduled debt auctions, including for long-dated bonds, even as it increases 10- to 30-year buyback sizes that start on September 10.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NHTSA is expanding a safety investigation into General Motors vehicles after receiving 227 incident reports (rising to 745 when including reports submitted to GM) alleging brake-by-wire eBoost failures can lead to an immediate loss of braking in at least 22 reported crashes.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Darkbloom, a distributed network of Apple Silicon Macs, has served 4.5B tokens and reached $102K ARR, with 900+ providers and 42M+ inference requests, after switching from free capacity on OpenRouter to paid inference providers.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
