Demis Hassabis is stepping down from running DeepMind day-to-day, becoming DeepMind chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over operations as DeepMind senior vice president reporting to Sundar Pichai.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Adobe (ADBE) stock rebounded 45% from its June fiscal Q2 2026 low of $190.12, but the article says analyst targets are largely below the current trading price with a mean target of $259.82.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Salesforce partners surveyed by TD Cowen said they have not seen Agentforce become a driver of bookings activity two years after the platform launched, with 0% reporting meaningful revenue so far.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
YETI’s Q2 fiscal 2026 sales rose 9% to about $484 million, but cash fell to roughly $60 million from $270 million a year earlier and adjusted net income declined 8% to $51 million.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NVIDIA is reportedly testing next-generation Rubin Ultra GPU versions with reduced HBM capacities, ranging from about 192GB to 256GB in some cases, far below the 1TB Jensen Huang previously announced.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stocks closed higher Friday: the S&P 500 rose 0.43%, the Dow rose 0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.33% as crude oil prices stabilized and eased near-term inflation worries.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Prusa Core One delivered the highest dimensional accuracy among CNET’s FDM 3D-printer tests, with just 0.18% accuracy variance (Prusa MK4S: 0.19%).
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
Pew Research found that 10% of a sampled set of roughly 10,000 English webpages showed “significant signs of AI authorship,” with the share becoming even more pronounced for pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 release.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Bitcoin is up about 23% for the week to $77,200 as of Aug. 21, its biggest rally since 2023 after the U.S. Treasury lowered government bond yields and Trump called for the Clarity Act.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two additional federal cases are proceeding on broker liability after the Supreme Court’s Montgomery decision—one in Arizona involving J.B. Hunt and one in Nevada involving double-brokered loads.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Best Buy’s 60th-anniversary sale ends this Sunday and includes steep Labor Day–period TV discounts on LG, Sony, and Hisense.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
ZDNet
e.l.f. Beauty’s last-quarter sales rose 36% to $479.4 million, helped by Rhode contributing about $160 million, while e.l.f.’s core namesake brand declined.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Software SPECFEM3D Cartesian, with adjustments to the 3.6 km-thick homogeneous atmosphere model and by stretching the top 20 meters of Earth out to 200 meters, was tested against real thunderstorm data using 4 km of campus fiber-optic seismic sensing at Penn State.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay a $400 million settlement to resolve DOJ allegations that TikTok violated COPPA by letting millions of children under 13 use the platform and collecting their personal information without required parental consent.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The SEC alleges former Bank of America investment banker Jason Satsky tipped longtime friend Gavin Wolfe about a pending South Jersey Industries merger, enabling Wolfe to make $18.5 million in illegal profit, including a 36% gain after an $8.1 billion buyout was announced on Feb. 24, 2022.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
18 advocacy organizations asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies’ “scan-and-destroy” book operations after reports that companies buy physical books, scan them for model training, and permanently destroy the originals to avoid storage costs and restrict access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Walmart and Sam’s Club will roll out Tap to Pay beginning Monday, Aug. 24 in select stores, with tap-to-pay available at all U.S. locations by the end of the year.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Whale Rock Capital Management cut its Nvidia stake from about 1.04 million shares to 377,204 shares in Q2, a reduction of about 64%.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta launched Muse Code on Aug. 5 with a low-cost tier priced at 20 cents per million output tokens (with an even cheaper feedback-sharing option), undercutting Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, and priced to match Meta’s Muse Spark tiering.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two NYC renters allege Compass delisted thousands of rentals from StreetEasy/Zillow listings to create a “fake supply shock,” and that this helped push downtown Manhattan one-bedroom rents from an estimated $4,390 average/median asking price one month earlier to $5,270 for their August leases.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
