A new IPPR report says Big Tech’s market power over UK digital infrastructure—and regulators’ response—could prevent the UK from competing in AI and risks AI becoming monopolized or oligopolized in a way that shrinks the UK’s leverage and financial returns.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Register
Shein’s market debut will be in Hong Kong, after regulators approved an IPO only once the company persuaded Chinese authorities it remained a Chinese company at its core, despite earlier attempts in New York and London being blocked.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Proposed House legislation by U.S. Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Linda T. Sanchez (D-CA) would let workers roll Roth IRA assets into workplace Roth accounts like Roth 401(k)s, Roth 403(b)s, and Roth 457(b)s to consolidate Roth holdings and simplify fee and account management.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
X says it uncovered a bot farm on its platform with 200,000 accounts, and 200 of them posted anti–AI data center sentiment aimed at “manipulat[ing] a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
German industry is pressing Chancellor Friedrich Merz to adopt a tougher stance on China over “unfair competition” and subsidies, as Germany’s trade deficit with China widened by about €22 billion last year to €89.3 billion.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A US District judge, Rita Lin, ruled the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was “illegal and baseless,” and barred certain federal agencies from enforcing Trump’s order to stop using Anthropic’s tools.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Engadget
Two men arrested in Perth—Ruben Thomson (21) and Louis Michael Gaebler (23)—are alleged principal participants in the TeamPCP cybercrime syndicate, including cryptocurrency payments for their roles in supply chain attacks.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
The Netherlands will end net metering for new enrollments on January 1, 2027, so Dutch households will no longer offset exported solar electricity against grid power they buy (while still being compensated for exports), making self-consumption more valuable and strengthening the case for home batteries.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s earlier-in-2025 blacklist of Anthropic was unconstitutional, finding it was “unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment” and that the supply-chain-risk designation was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) under the EU GDPR for using automated systems to suspend or deactivate drivers without adequate information or meaningful human oversight, covering incidents from 2018 to 2022.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta will add teen-only default limits of 2 hours/day for Instagram and Facebook, with night mode blocking most feed content from midnight to 6 a.m. and school mode muting notifications from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
Cronos’s offshore Cyprus LNG project is expected to deliver up to 2.8 million tonnes per year starting in 2028, creating an export route Cyprus can’t build alone and a feedstock source for Egypt as its domestic gas production falls and LNG import capacity is constrained.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia paused some deals in its July financing initiative that offered credit support to AI cloud companies in exchange for a share of their cloud revenues derived from Nvidia-powered capacity.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
About a third of people (56% of AI enthusiasts) say they share secrets with AI chatbots they wouldn’t tell friends, family or medical professionals.
Aug 27, 2026 ·CNET
Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo ranked third, fourth and fifth in global smartphone shipments in Q2 2026—yet they have no meaningful official presence in US carrier retail stores like Verizon or AT&T.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Engadget
SpaceX says its first orbital data center launch is due in Q4 2027, with a Vera Rubin NVL72 “space-optimized” system in partnership with Nvidia, drawing about 250 kilowatts at peak and aimed at scaling in 2028.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Circle Internet Group (CRCL) ended Q2 with $73.3B of USDC in circulation (+19% YoY), but its reserve return rate fell 66 bps to 3.48%, so reserve income rose only 5% even as average USDC circulation grew 25%—leaving the stock’s interest-rate sensitivity unresolved.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CRPx0 says its victim count rose from fewer than 10 organizations in June to 48 organizations on its clear-web leak site at the time of publication.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
More than 100 companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Oracle, Anthropic, and Hugging Face signed an open letter calling for “collective action on cyber defense” amid warnings that AI-enabled cyber attacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Engadget
The FDA approved Regeneron’s Pasatru (garetosmab) for adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, and in a 56-week Phase 3 trial the 3 mg/kg dose cut the number of new abnormal bone lesions by 94% versus placebo.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
