China is expanding payment-channel alternatives to keep access to U.S.-dollar financing while preparing for sanctions risk, citing Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) diversification efforts since 2012 and growing usage after 2022.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
CNBC
The 30-year Treasury yield rose above 5.3% for the first time since 2007 amid roughly $40 trillion of U.S. debt and rising AI-driven capital demand, with long-end yield suppression efforts proving limited.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
U.S. national debt has crossed the $40 trillion threshold, and Robert Kiyosaki warns that people who rely on cash or “fake assets” will get poorer.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence says it has brought into service its first home-grown jet-powered drone interceptor, the Alexa Spatium, designed to take out Russian attack drones.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
The US asked the EU to limit CSDDD and CSRD supply-chain due diligence and reporting so they apply only to US businesses’ EU subsidiaries or EU business partners and only to goods produced in the EU or services supplied from the EU.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Freight costs for shipping a VLCC crude cargo from Ras Tanura (Saudi Arabia) to India rose 411% to $4.34 a barrel in August, from about $0.85 per barrel before the Iran war began and after Hormuz was effectively shut.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. dollar rose 0.1% to C$1.3860 as investors weighed Washington’s expanded Iran sanctions and renewed efforts to ease pressure on longer-dated Treasury yields.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Washington imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods, but excluded Canadian crude oil from the measures despite the US taking 90% of Canada’s crude exports in 2025 (about CA$126B of CA$140B).
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HMRC plans a contract worth up to £500 million (including tax) to continue running and update the National Insurance and PAYE System (NPS) over a term that could last up to seven years.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
ARIA will stop listing AI-generated music on its sales-and-streams charts, making official chart eligibility depend on the IFPI’s generative-AI criteria starting this week.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
Saudi Aramco said it has signed more than $3.7 billion in potential agreements with French companies, covering drilling equipment and oil country tubular goods (OCTG), while Aramco Digital also signed an MoU for potential cooperation in industrial artificial intelligence and digital-twin technologies.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is reportedly subpoenaing banks that supervised Situational Awareness’s trading and helped channel funding to the AI hedge fund, and warned them to preserve information about the firm’s activities.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Microsoft embeds an invisible 16-byte GUID watermark in AI-assisted images created in Paint and Photos, where the GUID is linked to the prompt ID chain created through server-side moderation of each prompt.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
Franklin Templeton raised a $1.5 billion CFO (structured as tranches of rated, debt secured by cash flows from a pool of private assets it manages).
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HHS is considering changes to CDC vaccine-recommendation categories that could replace “routine” or “universal” labels with wording like “recommended with qualification” or “recommended based on shared clinical decision-making.”
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
S&P 500 closed down 0.28% (to a 2.5-week low) while the Nasdaq 100 closed down 0.97% (to a 3-week low), as chipmakers and AI-infrastructure stocks dragged broader markets.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
About 25% of US adults (3,488 surveyed) use AI chatbots to diagnose symptoms, and Pew reports 72% say it’s extremely or very important for medical providers to disclose any AI use.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple will charge a 5% commission on in-app purchases for apps sold through alternative app stores in the EU, as part of a new EU fee structure designed to resolve its Digital Markets Act disputes.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Some LG connected monitors installed the “LG Monitor App Installer” (via driver-update flows on Windows Update) to push McAfee pop-up ads onto third-party computers, prompting Microsoft to force their removal.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether OpenAI’s “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident violated the state’s consumer protection laws.
Aug 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
