Build American AI says it will spend millions on data-center advocacy ads in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin during the midterm elections, linking the effort to Leading the Future (LTF).
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The FTC and 22 states allege Amazon “secretly” added hidden surcharges to its ad auctions for more than six years, extracting “over 20 billion dollars” from advertisers and resulting in unknowingly overpaid ads that the FTC says also led to higher prices for consumers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon alleging it used a “secret ad surcharge” to overcharge advertisers and “likely illegally extracted over 20 billion dollars” from ad customers through “proxy 2nd price” auction manipulation.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Verge
Nearly 30,000 confirmed and probable Cyclospora cases this summer have coincided with the Trump administration defunding two of the USDA’s three Cyclospora research programs and leaving the remaining program about to lose all its scientists, creating “a big knowledge gap.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Wells Fargo downgraded PG&E to “Equal Weight” and cut its price target to $24, citing the California legislature’s failure to pass wildfire liability reforms before its session ended.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
FTC and 22 states allege Amazon secretly changed its Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Display ad auctions so advertisers were charged their full winning bid close to 80% of the time instead of behaving like a second-price auction.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Microsoft says Windows can show notifications stating “Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off” even though Microsoft Defender Antivirus is functioning correctly and settings show it as active, with notifications appearing after installing the latest Defender Antivirus updates and intermittently after Windows starts.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The Pentagon launched tailored versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok for 3 million civilian and military personnel via the secure GenAI.mil portal, reaching 1.7 million unique users so far.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Norway says it will keep exploring for oil and gas in the Barents Sea and downplay the idea of becoming Europe’s “green battery,” while continuing to sell Europe large volumes of oil, gas and electricity without taking on the same domestic political costs of deeper climate-linked integration.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Odds of a Sept. 15–16 Fed rate hike jumped to 66.1% after Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole remarks, nearly double the prior level, according to CME Group’s FedWatch.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNBC
The dollar index (DXY00) fell 0.28% on Monday, with the likelihood of a Fed +25 bp rate hike next month rising to 65% from 36% before Fed Chair Warsh’s speech.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is expected to consider rescinding Rule 14a-8, returning regulation of shareholder proposals to the states and reducing investor activists’ influence.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Instagram will require creators to label profiles that feature people “generated or substantially created with AI” as an “AI-generated profile,” and creators that don’t do so will see reduced reach.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Kalshi banned former Rep. George Santos from its prediction market platform for life and fined him $71,356 after allegations he bet $17,839 on whether he would attend President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Trump demanded the FCC rebuke or punish NBC host Kristen Welker for saying his election endorsement results were “mixed,” calling it a “purposeful inaccuracy.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A $604 million verdict in a Dallas County case tied to a 2021 accident has pushed freight brokers to treat carrier vetting as a “defensible standard,” with plaintiff attorneys increasingly seeking “true vetting” beyond verifying operating authority and insurance.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Windows 11 September preview update (KB5120998), released August 27, is reverting or wiping mouse cursor personalization settings, causing cursors to appear too large/too small or not show up at all after installation.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Raindrops charged by slide electrification can punch through insulating protective coatings via electrical breakdown: after about 3,000 charged impacts, a 60-nanometer Teflon film failed in nanometer-deep pits that reached the underlying copper, while drops that did not slide (and thus arrived uncharged) left the surface pristine.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The U.S. crossed $40 trillion in Treasury debt as foreign governments’ share of outstanding Treasuries fell to about 12% (down from roughly 40% around the 2008 crisis), with BNP Paribas research citing that the Fed-stopped Treasuries are increasingly being absorbed by American households and money-market funds.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kalshi permanently banned former congressman George Santos from its platform and imposed a $71,356 penalty after alleging he didn’t fully cooperate with its investigation into alleged insider trading.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Engadget
