Three voting Fed members—Beth Hammack, Lorie Logan, and Neel Kashkari—dissented last month and wanted a 0.25 percentage-point rate hike, while most supported holding rates steady, and the minutes say more officials could favor tightening if inflation does not decline.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Traffic deaths in the U.S. rose by 15% in the days immediately after major music album releases, with about 182 additional fatalities across 10 observed release dates (~18.2 excess deaths per surge day).
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) is up 21.97% year to date versus 12.54% for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) and 16.80% for Invesco QQQ (QQQ), supporting the call to buy “anything but the S&P 500.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Treasury said it would at least double its buybacks of 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year Treasury bonds, starting Sept. 9 and running through Nov. 4, after the 30-year yield hit its highest level in 19 years earlier this week.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. CFTC is seeking public comment on compute derivatives contracts, including compute cash markets, oversight and manipulation concerns, customer protection, and perpetual compute futures, as AI demand for computing power rises.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI said it has paused reinforcement learning training for models intended for deployment for two weeks and delayed its “largest planned frontier RL run,” while it tightens security and safeguards and conducts broader development only on a “pacing” basis rather than a full stop.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Verge
Capital One shut down 385 bank accounts tied to Donald Trump in 2021 after its AML process flagged activity “characteristic of money laundering.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A 3-0 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Sjunde AP-Fonden–led investor claims over Signature Bank’s 2023 collapse, holding that the FDIC seizure did not eliminate shareholders’ right to sue for securities fraud-related alleged misstatements.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Flock is testing an AI system (OS Investigate, previously reported as Nightshift) that can locate people by driving behavior using a network of cameras in 6,000 communities and then cross-reference police and identity records to potentially identify names, home addresses, relatives, and friends of people matching a specified description.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Engadget
U.S. Treasury doubled planned buyback sizes for 10- to 30-year Treasurys to at least $4 billion per operation, starting Sept. 9 through Nov. 4 (from $2 billion).
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
X grouped more than 36,500 posts in two days about a “De-Flock America” campaign encouraging people to vandalize Flock’s automated license plate readers on Halloween 2026, wear costumes, leave smartphones at home, and disable nearby ALPRs while concealing identities.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
Caroline Ellison was banned from trading for five years and prohibited from registering with the CFTC for 10 years, while Gary Wang received a five-year trading ban and an eight-year registration prohibition in the CFTC settlement.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta ran ads for Kromix, an AI porn-generation tool that promoted creating deepfaked videos resembling female U.S. politicians and urged users to upload photos for scenarios including “bedroom rape,” despite Meta policies banning sexual imagery and nonconsensual intimate imagery.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Ars Technica
More than half of US adults (52%) say they are more concerned than excited about AI, and 71% expect AI to lead to fewer jobs in the country over the next two decades.
Aug 19, 2026 ·The Register
The U.S. Commerce Department’s preliminary ruling says Mexico’s strawberry exports were sold 3.37% to 5.28% below normal value, with an average dumping margin of 4.83%—a finding Mexico says it will contest as the case moves to the ITC final ruling in early 2027.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Solana (SOL) is up 3% over the past 24 hours and has broken past a key resistance at $78, with the SEC proposing rules that would let crypto businesses offer up to $5 million in unregistered securities over four years and $75 million over 12 months.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. Treasury said it will more than double its long-term debt buybacks starting September 9, raising the buyback authorization from $2 billion to at least $4 billion, and yields fell (10-year to 4.647%, 30-year to 5.196%).
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
US states suing Meta say potential civil penalties could total about $200bn, pending what the court finds and what remedies it orders.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Carvana shares were down about 10% for the week after dropping more than 7% Tuesday following a similar-sized decline Monday, amid reporting that federal prosecutors and the SEC are investigating Mark Walter and related entities over whether financial relationships were concealed while more than $20 billion was routed through insurance companies he controls.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNBC
ISS spacewalkers failed to finish replacing a failed space-to-ground antenna in one excursion because disconnecting electrical cables and loosening bolts took longer than expected, leaving the replacement antenna for a later spacewalk.
Aug 19, 2026 ·The Register
