Monday, Aug 31, 2026
$900,000 in Fake Wins, 140 Million Views, and a Prediction Market at $15 Billion
An investigation published Sunday reviewed 1,105 videos posted by 10 creators between December 2025 and mid-May 2026, each promoting Polymarket’s…
Turkey Just Cleared the Uber-Getir Deal. The $500 Million Commitment Tells You Why It Happened
Turkey’s Competition Board approved Uber Technologies’ acquisition of the delivery arm of Getir on Friday, clearing what had been the…
Amazon Is Investigating the Engineers Who Testified Against Its Data Centers
A group of Amazon engineers affiliated with Amazon Employees for Climate Justice testified before Seattle City Council earlier this month…
Rivian Promised Hands-Free Driving for Five Years. Its Gen 1 Vehicles Cannot Physically Do It
A class-action complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California accuses Rivian of running…
YC’s Most Valuable Startup Is Shooting Drones Out of the Sky. The Valuation Is $200 Million
Y Combinator’s Spring 2026 Demo Day concluded on Tuesday with 196 startups presenting to an investor audience, and the specific…
Transformer Co-Inventor. Former White House AI Adviser. OpenAI’s Pre-IPO Week Was Strategic
OpenAI confirmed two significant hires in the same week: Noam Shazeer, the Transformer co-inventor and Gemini co-lead who departed Google…
Skin Cancer Data, an External IT Provider, and a Healthcare Group That Has Been Here Before
Australian Clinical Labs disclosed on Thursday that a cyber incident at an external IT service provider used by its SunDoctors…
RAMageddon Is Here and Tim Cook Is Running Out of Ways to Absorb It
Tim Cook said in an interview published this week that iPhone price increases are “unavoidable” and that Apple has tried…
Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Get Him Back. He Just Joined OpenAI
Noam Shazeer announced on Wednesday that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI, a move that the AI research community…
CarMax Beat Estimates by 36 Cents. The Gross Profit Per Car Still Fell $230
CarMax reported first-quarter fiscal year 2027 results on Tuesday that beat analyst expectations by a wide margin on earnings per…
JetBlue Is Leaving Newark. The Decision Took Years. The Reasoning Is Sound
JetBlue will close its flight attendant base at Newark Liberty International Airport and its tech operations bases at both Newark…
Qualcomm Isn’t Waiting to See What Replaces the Smartphone. It’s Already Making the Chip
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced on Tuesday that the company is working with more than 40 AI wearable device partners,…
India Blocked Telegram for Six Days. The Real Issue Is Structural, Not Temporary
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a direction under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act on Monday,…
$3.7 Billion Gone in 90 Days. OpenAI Filed for an IPO Anyway.
OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026, consuming more than half of its $5.7 billion in…
Mobileye Has Technology in 230 Million Cars. Now It Wants to Drive One Itself
Mobileye Global announced on Tuesday that it will launch a fully driverless ride-hailing service in a major U.S. city in…