Diageo agreed to alter the recipes of some whisky and rum products in India so the FSSAI can drop a sales ban it imposed over flavouring and age-related claims.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens with default under-18 safety protections plus a Study Mode that provides guiding questions and step-by-step support, while homework reminders and prompts push users toward Study Mode when they appear to be trying to cheat.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Robert Kaplan said the rate-hike debate “might not even” be happening if not for the war in Iran and the spike in oil prices raising headline inflation, which he said then “leads into other items.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Novig launched Aug. 4 and generated $125 million in trading volumes in its first week, led by baseball betting on its sports event contracts.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic says Claude text watermarking will work by changing the word-selection process so that specific, key-dependent patterns can be checked to assign a probability the text was generated by Claude.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
ABC and Disney sued the FCC in federal court, alleging the FCC “waged a retaliatory campaign” that “punish[es] ABC for its speech” by threatening ABC’s broadcast licenses and seeking a court order halting the FCC’s license renewal proceedings.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Microsoft Teams Live Captions will keep censoring profanity by default for Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High, and Department of Defense users until the end of August, extending the delay by one month from the planned end of July.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Register
A short video found in the macOS 26.7 Release Candidate demo shows Apple’s “Visual Intelligence” using camera-equipped AirPods to let Siri “save” information you ask for, while suggesting ambient video isn’t recorded or saved without consent.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Canonical VP of Engineering Jon Seager says Ubuntu on WSL won’t outgrow native Ubuntu installs; the faster WSL growth rate doesn’t imply more native Ubuntu desktops will be replaced, because there are and will be more Ubuntu Linux desktops on PCs than Ubuntu-on-WSL desktops.
Aug 18, 2026 ·ZDNet
The US House Office of Legislative Counsel is reportedly spending more time reviewing and rewriting AI-generated bills because they contain wrong terms, incorrect citations, and other mistakes, with representatives increasingly using general AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft proposals.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
A Union of Concerned Scientists report says pesticides become more dangerous as temperatures rise, with field workers who don’t handle chemicals directly making up most reported poisonings and inadequate employer warnings, training, and protective gear increasing risk.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Palantir has expanded across the FAA as the agency prepares a $12.5 billion overhaul, with about $5 billion for software upgrades and none of the new money dedicated to personnel—while the article says staffing is the most urgent need.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Verge
Consumer Choice Center called for an immediate halt and comprehensive revision of the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), saying it will push smaller cross-border retailers out of the single market.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kubuntu 26.04 will get at least three years of backported security updates and critical fixes for KDE Plasma 6.6 plus KDE Frameworks 6.24 and KDE Gear 25.12, with coverage through April 2029.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Social Security’s retirement earnings test counts only the $10,000 net self-employment income toward the 2026 limit of $24,480, because 401(k) withdrawals are ignored for the earnings test.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved a hybrid multi-state trial in which Colorado, California, Kentucky and New Jersey will try their state consumer protection claims together while federal privacy claims from all 29 attorneys general are included, with an advisory jury to help inform her final ruling.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The odds of a Sept. 16 Fed hike fell from nearly 100% in late July to roughly one-third, while the 30-year Treasury yield climbed from about 5.09% to 5.31%—its highest level since 2007.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The UK Department for Transport is funding a 30-month trial that uses Met Office weather forecasts plus Google AI to predict where persistent contrails will form over the North Atlantic and suggests route or altitude changes to avoid them, with £2.6 million in funding.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Attribution decay means that as diffusion models are trained on larger datasets, generated samples become less (and at sufficient scale, sometimes effectively not) traceable to any specific part of the training data, including after removing images like the Mona Lisa or all of Leonardo da Vinci’s work via ablation.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
U.S. 30-year Treasury yields jumped to 5.3264%, the highest in almost 20 years, as Middle East escalation fears revived inflation concerns and pressured stocks.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
