BP has loaded 400,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil on the tanker Monte Lema for delivery via PDVSA, marking its return to direct involvement in Venezuela’s oil trade.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
L3Harris shares fell 4.6% after the board abruptly replaced CEO Christopher Kubasik following an investigation that found conduct inconsistent with the company’s Code of Conduct, then reaffirmed 2026 guidance including consolidated revenue, organic growth, segment operating margin, GAAP EPS, and free cash flow.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
In an experiment with 228 evaluators reviewing nearly 50 MIT challenge submissions, participants accepted LLM recommendations 67% of the time, agreed with AI decisions about 75% of the time, but only agreed with human experts 54%, and narrative explanations for rejections increased false negatives while black-box recommendations reduced false positives.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Copper produced $18.19B of underlying EBITDA in the year ended June 30, overtaking iron ore’s $14.53B and making up more than half of BHP group EBITDA for the first full year.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Apple Upgrade Program lets you lease qualifying iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches for 24 or 36 months through Klarna, but you must return the device at the end unless you pay a fee that won’t exceed the device’s full price at lease signing minus your total lease payments.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Nvidia guided fiscal 2027 Q2 revenue to $91.0 billion (plus or minus 2%), while Wall Street’s average estimate is about $91.9 billion, roughly a $1 billion gap on a $91 billion base.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) pulled in $26.6 billion of net inflows in 2026, the fastest growth of any ETF on record after it began trading April 2.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tapestry shares dropped as much as 16.9% to $127.78 after reporting fourth-quarter revenue of $1.88 billion (+8.9%) and adjusted EPS of $1.32, while forecasting fiscal 2027 revenue of $8.4 billion to $8.5 billion (midpoint slightly below $8.46 billion consensus).
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies are ending Link’s robotic Swift-rescue mission after “ongoing attitude control issues,” meaning Link will not complete boosting Swift into a safer, higher orbit before reentry risk increases.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Alibaba agreed to sell its entire interest in Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital, with the deal reported to be worth more than $2 billion.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Union Pacific reported a $91.1 million Q2 fuel-surcharge surplus (it received $91.1 million more in surcharge revenue than in fuel cost), which management attributed to about $0.14 of EPS (about $83.2 million using diluted weighted-average shares).
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI said it has “temporarily” slowed scaling and put reinforcement learning training on a two-week pause, with its largest planned frontier RL run “on hold” while it runs smaller-scale training and evaluations to validate safeguards and alignment evidence.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Computerworld
Coal is expected to generate 10,974 TWh of electricity in 2026—nearly a third of the world’s 33,313 TWh—far ahead of natural gas at 6,976 TWh.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kimball Electronics reported that Q4 sales were in line with expectations, while adjusted operating income was better than estimates and cash from operations was used to pay down debt to its lowest level in over 4 years.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AMD says its rack-scale AI systems will be 20x more efficient by the end of the decade, estimating that as of 2026 they are already 4x more efficient than in 2024.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
Stripe is buying OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, far above OpenRouter’s $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders reportedly receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 billion.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Cboe Global Markets raised its quarterly cash dividend for Q3 2026 by 19% to $0.86 per share from $0.72, payable Sept. 15 to shareholders of record on Aug. 31 and marking 16th consecutive year of annual increases.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ Online launches on consoles on November 19, the same day as GTA 6, and supports online co-op for up to four players.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
Doctors say LED face masks are not a quick fix and typically require consistent use for several weeks to months before noticeable changes (for example, CNET’s Shark CryoGlow is said to take 4 weeks for clearer skin and 2 months for firmer skin).
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNET
Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen to about 2 million barrels per day, down from a July average of 4.8 million and from roughly 18 million pre-war—meaning it is about 11% of former levels.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
