Liquid Death’s pee-cooling pitch is a joke, but data-center cooling can be done using recycled water made from treated wastewater and sewage, which can offset demand for potable drinking water.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Income Lab has launched Penny, an AI paraplanner that combines natural-language input with deterministic calculation engines to help advisors analyze Medicare, estate planning, and other retirement-planning topics inside the platform while aiming to avoid “fuzzy math” and hallucinations.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Berkshire Hathaway increased its Alphabet (GOOGL) stake by 83% in Q2 to nearly 106 million shares worth about $37.8 billion, including a $10 billion private placement completed June 4 to fund AI infrastructure scaling.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semi trucks on its Saga AI platform, taking its fleet from about 250 vehicles to roughly 750 and targeting 1,500–2,000 trucks by 2028 while aiming for cash-flow breakeven in 2028.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
After a seven-year absence, Apple Watch Series 12 next month is reportedly set to bring back a ceramic case finish, according to tech insider Kosutami and a separate Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
CNET
Pixel Watch 5 lasts about a day and a half on average use after a week of testing, and its Health Guardian tab is set to update monthly (with insulin resistance timing aimed at end of August).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet
A hacker used a fake crypto conference lure on X and a specially crafted Google Doc sidebar to trick security researchers into installing malware for macOS and Windows, including an infostealer, a repurposed remote desktop viewing tool, and a fake Ledger wallet installer.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Riot will end active development of 2XKO at the end of 2026, citing that it hasn’t seen enough players stick with the game to reach a sustainable path.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg bought Strancally Castle, a 19th-century castle with 440 acres near Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland, for an estimated $23 million to $35 million.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Genesis GV90 is a US-focused three-row electric SUV that replaces the B-pillar with hidden dual-steel beams and a cabin roll-cage structure, which Genesis claims delivers crash-safety performance equivalent to vehicles with conventional B-pillars.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal say TikTok deliberately held back a 2021 algorithmic “repetitive patterns” safety feature from millions of users to use a control group, even after a teen in the control group reportedly became stuck in a recommendation loop of Suicide and Self Harm content before dying by suicide.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget
Waymo has begun rolling its own 5 nm ML ASICs designed to turn raw sensor data into driving responses with ultra-low latency, targeting more than 1,000 TOPS of AI performance and using multiple redundancy layers (including a pair of ASICs per vehicle).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Anthropic plans to change its enterprise data retention policy by keeping a mandatory 30-day retention requirement for business customers but giving them the option to store that data on their own cloud infrastructure instead of Anthropic’s systems.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Flock Safety’s drones are set to become its “fastest-growing business unit,” with CEO Garrett Langley saying they’ll account for nearly half of the company’s future revenue.
Aug 20, 2026 ·CNET
Americold says its cold storage facilities can maintain sub-zero temperatures for up to a week during complete power outages, and the company has deployed this during hurricane-related blackouts across multiple sites.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic is preparing to publicly file IPO paperwork as early as the end of this month, potentially giving the public its first detailed look at the company’s financials.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google is launching an interactive “Preferred Sources” button publishers can embed so readers can mark a site as a “favorite source,” and Google will highlight it more often across Google Search, Discover, and Google News.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Runlayer and Rippling dropped their competing lawsuits against each other without a settlement or any lawyers’ fees changing hands, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Reports say Google is looking to collaborate with AMD to develop the next iteration of its tensor processing unit, the 10th-generation TPU.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
