Monday, Aug 31, 2026
Apple Just Banned an Entire Industry From Advertising on Maps. Google Never Did.
Apple has quietly published the rulebook governing its upcoming Apple Maps advertising business, and the most striking detail isn't what…
Conagra Just Halved Its Dividend and Took a $2 Billion Writedown. Store Brands Are the Reason Why
Conagra Brands issued fiscal 2027 guidance Wednesday projecting adjusted earnings of $1.40 to $1.50 per share, below the $1.59 analysts…
ASML Just Blew Past Its Own Guidance. The AI Chip Boom Isn’t Slowing Down Yet.
ASML, the sole global supplier of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that make advanced AI chips possible, reported second-quarter revenue…
Anthropic’s New Ad Shows a Graveyard and Asks If AI Can Be Trusted. People Are Not Loving It.
Anthropic released a new ad this week, titled "There's hope in hard questions," that opens on a burning house before…
OpenAI’s Newest Model Keeps Deleting Files. The Company Warned About This Two Weeks Before Launch
Users of OpenAI's new coding-focused flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, have been posting accounts on social media of the model deleting…
An OpenAI Researcher Is Leaving to Chase Drug Discovery. Investors Already Value It at $2 Billion
Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher whose work focused on using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the…
The U.S. Just Quietly Cleared More Chinese Firms to Buy Nvidia’s H200. ZTE Is One of Them.
A unit of telecoms equipment maker ZTE and two other Chinese firms have received U.S. approval to purchase advanced AI…
China’s Exports Just Beat Every Forecast. AI Chips Are Doing the Heavy Lifting
China's exports climbed 27% in June from a year earlier, comfortably beating the 18.2% economists had forecast and marking the…
Waze Just Got an AI Voice. It’s Aimed Squarely at Apple Maps.
Waze rolled out a batch of AI-powered features this week, including personalized route suggestions, a conversational way to report road…
Microsoft’s CEO Just Told Companies They’re Paying AI Labs Twice
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a blog post Sunday warning enterprises that using proprietary AI models comes with a hidden…
Uber’s Product Chief Just Explained Why the App Isn’t Trying to Do Everything
Uber has spent the past year quietly stretching well past ride-hailing and delivery, adding hotel bookings through a partnership with…
Kalshi Just Built a Trading Cockpit for People Betting on the News
Kalshi launched a professional trading terminal Monday aimed at its most active users, designed for traders who juggle multiple markets…
Volkswagen’s CEO Just Confirmed the Number Everyone Was Afraid to Say Out Loud: 100,000
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume warned staff in an internal memo that the automaker may need to cut an additional 50,000…
Global Phone Shipments Just Hit a 13-Year Low. Apple Grew Anyway.
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in the second quarter to their lowest level for the period since 2013, according to…
Some Airlines Are Flying Back Into the Middle East. Others Just Extended Their Bans to October.
More than four months after the outbreak of the war between Iran and a U.S.-Israeli coalition, global airlines remain split…