Google has reportedly told suppliers it will stop manufacturing Pixel phones, watches, and earbuds in China starting in 2027 and shift production to countries including Vietnam and India, starting with no Pixel manufacturing in China next year.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
A macOS Tahoe 26.7 release-candidate video appears to show camera-equipped AirPods using Siri’s “Visual Intelligence” feature to let users “saveable” view what they’re seeing, with Siri saying “See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Google bought a deidentified trove from Spirit at auction for $10 million, including over 100 million emails and 30 million recorded phone calls as it seeks to improve AI services.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Register
A Microsoft MVP created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, which lists 72 Microsoft products and 158 names they’ve had over the years.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
A study of Theban Tomb 209 found 16 mummified people (1,444 bones) plus one mummified dog and disarticulated remains of at least four other individuals, showing that Egyptian burial practice shifted over centuries from individual coffin burials to reused sites with vertical superposition and declining coffin use.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
SpaceX shares trading near $140 have an average Wall Street price target around $227 (about 62% upside), but Phillip Securities analyst Glenn Thum set a Sell rating with a $75 price target (about 46% downside).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Xen Project created a Safety Committee and is pushing to have its open-source hypervisor comply with IEC-61508 functional-safety process standards for software running in settings that could harm humans.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Gartner projects that while LLM token costs will drop 95% by 2030, inference costs for agentic workflows will increase more than fivefold over the next two years, creating an “inference paradox.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion to back SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio for OpenAI, where the first phase targets 4.25 GW of IT capacity and the full buildout could reach 8 GW of AI computing capacity under a 20-year lease.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SanDisk shares rose 8.88% to close at $1,786.85 after JPMorgan upgraded it to a Buy and raised its price target to $2,250 while keeping an overweight rating.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Greg Brockman told enterprise CISOs to more aggressively use agentic systems for defense, including “Codex” and the “Codex Security plugin,” and to start with highest-priority systems rather than waiting for a rollout.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Computerworld
Citadel Securities urged the SEC to reconsider its June proposal to scrap the 2005 “order protection rule,” arguing it could divert trading from public exchanges, harm retail investors, and reduce market liquidity.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 60 largest US data centers under construction by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are estimated to produce 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually when fully operational, about 7% of 2025 US power-sector emissions (equivalent to running 27 coal power plants or adding 24 million gas-powered cars).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
iPhone 17 Pro Max storage tier upgrades cost an effective $0.78/GB for the 256GB→512GB step and about $0.39/GB for the 512GB→1TB and 1TB→2TB steps, making it cheaper to buy than it sounds when viewed as marginal $/GB rather than total GB.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
The U.S. imports 100% of its cesium, and Power Metals says its northeastern Ontario Case Lake project is targeting early 2027 production after advancing into permitting.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds MultiVectorEncoder to support ColBERT-style late-interaction retrieval, keeping one token vector per document and scoring with the MaxSim (sum of per-query-token max similarities) operator instead of compressing each text into a single vector.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of last year.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Reddit is running an early, limited experiment that converts selected Reddit text posts (including some comments) into AI-voice audio/video, with a web “Read” or “Play” toggle and a “Real conversation voiced by AI” note under the video.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
Artisan AI, known for 2025 “Stop Hiring Humans” billboards, is now hiring a human for its AI business development representative (Ava) role rather than retiring the slogan entirely
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Android 17 QPR2 beta 3 adds a built-in app lock that requires passcode or biometrics to open selected apps and also disables notifications plus prevents widgets or shortcuts for those locked apps from appearing on the home screen.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
