Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text for compliance with the EU’s AI transparency rules by embedding a decodable word-selection pattern that uses a key (Anthropic’s example uses digits of pi) without adding hidden characters or visible marks.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Govee’s Back-to-School sale is live through Aug. 17 with discounts of up to 45% on a range of indoor and outdoor lighting solutions.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
CNET
BT Group traces its lineage to the Electric Telegraph Company founded in 1846, which later merged with the International Telegraph Company in 1855 and was taken over by the General Post Office in 1870.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
SK Hynix’s board approved 54.3 trillion won (about $38 billion) for two new memory fabs, with the first cleanroom openings not expected until December 2028 at M17 and June 2029 at the Y2 HBM/DRAM plant.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
HSAs can provide deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free medical withdrawals, and Fidelity estimates a retiring couple may face about $410,000 in healthcare costs over 25 years that an invested HSA is designed to cover.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s US Patent and Trademark Office filing describes a facial-recognition system for its smart glasses that would use AI to identify people and generate media such as videos containing that information.
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
Mastercard grew net income 18.56% (nearly 3x Visa’s 6.75%) and expanded adjusted operating margins to 61.1% while Visa’s net revenue was $11.63 billion and processed 72 billion transactions.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sergey Brin urged Alphabet to double down on its proprietary Gemini as Google reshuffles leadership, and Gemini now processes 22 billion API tokens per minute with the Gemini App at 950 million monthly active users.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Model:Cycles uses FM synthesis and Model:Samples plays samples (samples must be loaded over USB, and the unit can’t record samples)
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
Vanguard’s VTES charges 0.05% in expenses (vs. VanEck’s SMB at 0.07%), while VanEck’s SMB shows a slightly higher trailing-12-month yield of about 2.8% (vs. VTES at about 2.7%).
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Smuggler’s Run’s May update required upgrading every one of its 224 graphics cards to new Nvidia Blackwell cards and updating the game to Unreal Engine 5, enabling new ride-mission/world choices.
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
Request Xbox digital game refunds through Xbox Support’s “Request a refund for digital games” page, and if approved you lose access to the refunded item once processing starts.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity let users review suspicious sign-in activity in their account settings, and you can log out unknown devices or all sessions if you find an unrecognized session.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
FedEx will permanently close five U.S. facilities in Missouri and California as part of its Network 2.0 overhaul, affecting 316 workers, with an additional review finding at least 762 workers affected across 16 FedEx locations or workforce actions in seven states so far in 2026.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Zelenskyy said Ukraine hit the Roscosmos Progress Rocket Space Center in Russia’s Samara region with ground-launched cruise missiles using “Flamingo missiles.”
Aug 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nvidia’s free cash flow rose from $3.8B in fiscal 2023 to $27.02B in fiscal 2024 (+609.6%), $60.85B in fiscal 2025 (+125.2%), and $96.67B in fiscal 2026 (+58.8%), and the company is using that cash to fund additional AI infrastructure bets.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust opened a new Home Depot (HD) position worth about $353 million in Q2 despite HD being down about 15% over the past year.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BFG Supply, a wholesale lawn-and-garden supplier, is preparing to file for Chapter 11 in the coming weeks with a possible liquidation as it faces mounting financial pressure and restructures with legal advisor Goodwin and lender Ares Management.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
At least one analyst has a $515 price target for Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL), implying about 50% upside from the stock’s recent close of $343.54.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Responding to an employer’s first message on Fiverr an hour after receiving it was tied to a 46% drop in the chance of landing the gig, while waiting a full day cut chances by about 90%.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
