Walmart’s Aug. 18 deals include $170 off a 65-inch Vizio Class Quantum 4K QLED TV, bringing it to $328 (from $498), plus $90 for a 5-quart Ninja Air Fryer Pro (from $130) and $23 for an Anker Soundcore Select 4 Go speaker (from $35).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Nvidia is committing to secure “every input” for AI—chip supply, land, power, and “shell”—including for frontier labs and neoclouds, alongside $105 billion in OpenAI-related commitments, amid compute scarcity and solid GPU rental rates.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Apple released iOS 26.6.1 on Aug. 17 with more than a dozen bug fixes and security patches, including fixes for WebKit issues and some iOS kernel vulnerabilities.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
GAAP net earnings fell to $4.9 million ($29.2 million adjusted net earnings) for the quarter, versus $14.8 million ($33.6 million adjusted net earnings) a year earlier.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft is adding a customizable Windows 11 right-click context menu that lets you add and remove commands to reduce menu clutter.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
A Gallup poll found 62% of Americans worry they haven’t saved enough for retirement and 54% worry about maintaining their lifestyle, which Vanguard strategist Garrett Harbron says can drive retirees to spend less than they can afford or not live the life they want.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sea Limited’s Oaktree Capital disclosed a new position worth about $60.9 million as the stock is down about 30% over the past year.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs will pay as much as $410 million to buy LCN Capital Partners as it seeks to grow its $4 trillion asset-management business.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA awarded payload services contracts to Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, L3Harris and All Points Logistics for future missions.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Klarna Group PLC shares fell 20.5% after its fiscal 2026 revenue guidance of $4.08 billion to $4.16 billion and GMV outlook of $149 billion to $151 billion both came in below analyst estimates.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nike stock is down nearly 39% and Barchart’s Technical Opinion rates it as a 100% “Strong Sell.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oaktree Capital disclosed it bought a new position in MakeMyTrip worth about $52.4 million, with the stock down about 25% year-to-date.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Baron Small Cap Fund credited Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. (NYSE:BXDC), which it says it participated in the IPO of, and reported BXDC closed at $20.33 per share on August 17, 2026 with a $2.11B market capitalization.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kalshi filed with the CFTC to launch perpetual futures (“perps”) tied to equity indexes, including a “US500” contract tied to the MerQube U.S. Large Cap Index.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNBC
Visa has issued an RFP for product talks to find a new stablecoin settlement partner after BVNK was acquired by Mastercard, including swaps/support for multiple stablecoins and settlement for the Open USD stablecoin project.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Elegoo is discounting its 3D printers, accessories and select combo deals by up to 32% through Aug. 26, with educators eligible for an extra stacked discount.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
Researchers demonstrated that a major US retailer’s in-app AI shopping assistant could be manipulated via indirect prompt injection to run code and reveal internal system details, including directory listings and environment variables, after protections were bypassed through the app’s less-protected search field.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
Zoetis (ZTS) is down about 40% this year and is trading near 12× forward earnings versus a historical average around 30×, while still reporting fiscal Q2 2026 adjusted EPS growth of 4% on stock buybacks.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Interface’s second-quarter adjusted gross margin jumped 524 basis points to 45%, but 393 of those basis points (~$0.19 EPS) came from a one-time $15.6 million IEEPA tariff refund that won’t repeat.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tim King, the programmer behind the Motorola 68000 port of Cambridge University’s TRIPOS OS that became AmigaDOS, died at the end of July aged 70.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Register
