President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, the deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, to lead the Food and Drug Administration as its next commissioner.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the U.S. should approve tokenized stocks, warning regulators are the obstacle while Robinhood has tokenized more than 190 U.S. stocks for use outside America in 120+ countries.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
98% of surveyed creators and marketers said they use AI in their work, including 86% for writing copy/captions and 84% for generating content ideas, while the share using AI for graphic design or image editing rose from 38% in 2025 to 61%
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNET
The Reserve Bank of India kept the policy repo rate at 5.25% on Aug. 5 and signaled it may hike later if inflation risks from higher food, fuel and other input prices start broadening and de-anchoring expectations, according to meeting minutes released Aug. 19.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple’s U.S. App Store commission revenue reportedly fell 18% in 2026 as legal challenges from companies like Epic Games and regulators like the European Commission mount.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DataVita secured a £300 million ($406 million) debt facility to expand its Scotland Airdrie data-center campus in the AI Growth Zone by extending DV1 to 40 MW and building DV3, also rated at 40 MW—after CoreWeave already leased both facilities for 15 years.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
By the end of the 2026 filing season, the IRS issued $296 billion in taxpayer refunds—$43 billion more than in the comparable period a year earlier, a 17% jump.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) awarded three low-code software development and support contracts via the DALAS framework totaling up to £657 million, including a £78.2 million Atos deal and call-offs for Cognizant (£360 million) and Coforge (£219 million).
Aug 19, 2026 ·The Register
ByteDance and Tencent received 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips each in recent weeks after China reportedly eased restrictions to allow the processors to enter the mainland, with additional H200 shipments of similar size expected for other Chinese companies.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 up 0.2% for its first gain in four days, after the Treasury Department said it will at least double its planned purchases of longer-term Treasurys from Sept. 9 through Nov. 4.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Diffusion models show “attribution decay,” where removing specific training images (even at zero access to the original data) stops changing the model’s outputs once model/data scale is sufficient, making it “practically impossible” to link a generated sample to the influential inputs behind it.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield jumped to 5.29%—its highest level since 2007—driving up borrowing costs for homebuyers, businesses, and the federal government.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Benchmark 30-year Treasury yields briefly topped a 19-year high at above 5.3% as worries grew about stalled war-ending talks with Iran, persistent inflation, monetary policy under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, and U.S. borrowing that has the national debt approaching $40 trillion.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An ICE memo warns that employees—including those beyond field agents—are not permitted to wear Meta Glasses or similar devices at work because they could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information that could compromise privacy and legal protections.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Trump’s second administration cut AHRQ staff by an estimated 75% and canceled more than 100 research grants worth over $250 million, leaving only $15 million of Congress’s $345 million FY2026 appropriation spent on grants so far.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Data centers could account for as much as 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030, driving developers to treat power as a strategic resource and to structure energy and power solutions to both comply with state requirements and maximize federal clean-energy incentives like the Investment Tax Credit, which can return up to 50% of initial investment in cash within the first year assets are operational.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ukrainian drones have been able to overwhelm Russia’s Arena-M active protection system for now, raising questions about how effectively turret-mounted countermunition launchers can scale up against drone swarms.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Bank of America’s August global fund manager survey shows a record consensus conviction in a “no landing” scenario, with equity allocations at a net 56% overweight (highest since November 2021) and cash levels down to 3.5%.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A new npj Climate Action paper argues AI-driven productivity gains in the fossil fuel industry could outweigh AI-enabled emissions reductions in renewables, because it says renewables would need net emissions gains 4–5x greater than fossil fuel gains to offset them.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The DOJ is probing Andreessen Horowitz under Section 8 of the Clayton Act over partners serving on boards of competing companies, focusing on Databricks (valued at $190 billion) and Fivetran (merged with dbt Labs in June).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
