Scientists just created female clones of male mice
Scientists removed the Y chromosome from male mouse embryos using CRISPR technology and created female clones of male mice. The Japanese research team achieved this outcome by deleting genetic material from male cells to produce viable female offspring.
UK Financial Conduct Authority Looks to the Tokenization of Gold
The FCA is developing a regulatory framework for gold tokenization to enable its use as collateral in wholesale markets. The framework would address how digitized gold could function within financial systems and trading operations.
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue
Fifty-three percent of enterprises have experienced an AI agent security incident or near-miss, yet only 8% both enforce agent permissions at runtime and isolate their highest-risk agents. Ninety-two percent of enterprises rely primarily on their hyperscalers and AI platform providers for security controls rather than implementing independent containment measures.
Nasdaq to Acquire LeveL Markets as Part of Always-On Markets Push
Nasdaq agreed to acquire LeveL Markets LLC, a US off-exchange equity trading venue, through a definitive agreement announced August 11, 2026. The purchase supports Nasdaq's strategy to develop always-on market infrastructure for continuous equity trading.
AI doesn’t transform organizations; leadership does.
AI can anticipate disruptions and optimize inventory by evaluating thousands of scenarios in seconds, accelerating decisions that previously took weeks. Organizations that outperform will have the strongest leadership and governance to translate AI insights into better business decisions, not necessarily the most advanced AI technology.
Bitwise cuts 14% of staff while still expecting growth
Bitwise cut 14 percent of its staff while maintaining growth expectations. The company joins other crypto firms like Coinbase and Robinhood that have announced layoffs this year due to market conditions and shifts toward artificial intelligence.
AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation
AllenAI's Open Instruct framework enables custom LLM post-training using Supervised Fine-Tuning, Direct Preference Optimization, and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards on 16GB hardware. The pipeline runs without requiring distributed computing infrastructure across multiple machines.
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis
Grok 4.6 scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Sol and surpassing Kimi K3 to rank third globally. The model costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens while showing significant improvements in coding, terminal, and agent benchmarks over its predecessor.
DeepSeek Ships V4 Pro as Its Flagship Model Leaves Preview
DeepSeek released V4 Pro 0813 as its production flagship model on August 12, 2026, ending a nearly four-month preview period. The model costs $0.435 per million input tokens on a cache miss and $0.003625 per million on a cache hit.
Zeplyn Launches Agentic Account-Opening Workflow in Partnership with Schwab
An AI-powered account-opening workflow now enables wealth advisors to open Schwab Advisor Services accounts in seconds through automated agents. The integration between Zeplyn Agent Nexus and Schwab Advisor Center also covers meeting preparation workflows for wealth managers.
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
AI agents require trustworthy data infrastructure to deliver effective business results. Organizations adopting agents face challenges with inadequate data foundations that limit their return on investment.
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
Ring-shaped wearables are emerging as devices designed to capture stray thoughts and ideas through voice input, similar to how AI notetaking devices work for meetings. Sandbar, a ring-maker, believes voice interaction represents the future of AI wearables rather than screen-based interfaces.
Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models
Gemini Intelligence is now integrated directly into Pixel 11's operating system to function across apps rather than confined to a chatbot interface. Google launches this capability weeks before Apple rebuilds Siri using Google's models, while device chief Rick Osterloh confirmed memory shortages will increase Pixel prices.
Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active parameters and a one million token context window. The model combines Mamba-2, MoE, and attention layers, with weights available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations
Google's medical AI system AMIE conducted video consultations with professional patient actors and received clinical evaluator ratings equivalent to primary care physicians. Fifteen trained actors portrayed conditions across five medical categories: cardiopulmonary, abdominal, HEENT, neurological or psychiatric, and musculoskeletal presentations.
Crypto Long & Short: When capital can't move fast enough, markets pay the price
Capital trapped in settlement cycles causes market breakdowns when risk reprices faster than money can move to where it's needed. Stablecoins and tokenization are becoming the infrastructure that enables capital to move at speeds matching real-time risk repricing.
Josh Kushner and Bob Iger reportedly buying Los Angeles Lakers for $12.5bn
Josh Kushner and Bob Iger are buying the Los Angeles Lakers for more than $12.5 billion, exceeding the $10 billion price Mark Walter paid last year. The deal represents a record valuation for an NBA team.
Lionel Messi has ‘quite a few doubts’ about football future after death of his father
Lionel Messi expressed doubts about continuing his football career following his father Jorge's death at age 68 last week. Messi, currently 39 years old, suggested his future in the sport remains uncertain after his father's long illness.
NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs
Jensen Huang received 99% employee approval to rank first on Glassdoor's 2026 Best CEOs list. NVIDIA's CEO topped the ranking based on ratings submitted directly by employees who work under his leadership.
Scientists turn Starlink into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere
Researchers used orbital data from approximately 1,200 Starlink satellites to reconstruct atmospheric density changes at 500 kilometers altitude in Earth's upper atmosphere. This method could improve satellite tracking and help reduce collision risks in crowded orbital zones.
Scientists discover a hidden brain rhythm that could improve Parkinson’s treatment
Scientists identified a brain network with a distinctive electrical rhythm that drives deep brain stimulation benefits in Parkinson's disease patients. This discovery could enable more precise, personalized stimulation settings for improved treatment outcomes.
States lean in on payments plays
States are expanding regulatory oversight of emerging payment services including earned wage access and buy now, pay later options. A former California state government lawyer discusses how these regulatory efforts will develop across different jurisdictions.
The adult brain can repair itself better than scientists thought
Astrocytes repair damaged brain tissue in mice by creating new nuclei and sending them through cellular extensions to repopulate injured regions. This discovery suggests the adult brain has greater self-repair capacity than previously understood, with support cells actively rebuilding lost cellular networks rather than passively responding to injury.
Fintechs want to become banks. Bunq just found out what the OCC expects in return.
Bunq, a Dutch neobank with 20 million users across 30+ European countries, encountered regulatory requirements from the OCC while pursuing its own banking charter. The fintech discovered that obtaining independent bank status demands significantly more regulatory compliance and oversight than partnering with existing banks.
Scientists turn sheep’s wool into a material that helps regrow bone
Keratin extracted from sheep's wool enabled damaged bone to regenerate in animals with tissue that was more organized and structurally similar to healthy bone than conventional collagen scaffolds. This finding transforms an agricultural byproduct into a potential material for regenerative medicine applications.
Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
A trial in Pakistan found that a custom AI tool based on GPT-4 and containing 130,000 judicial opinions increased case resolutions by 6.3 percent among 1,559 judges. The tool improved productivity without reducing judgment quality in a country facing a backlog of 2.26 million cases.
Skan AI raises $63 million betting that watching how employees actually work is the missing layer of enterprise AI
Skan AI raised $63 million in Series C funding to build observation systems that track how employees work across enterprise software. The company launched two new products, Blueprint and Agents, as part of a platform for discovering and automating workflows, while only 8% of enterprises currently have AI agents in production.
Barcelona make improved £51m bid for Rodri as Manchester City target Fernández
Barcelona increased their offer for Rodri to approximately €60 million, approaching Manchester City's valuation for the 30-year-old midfielder. The bid may include add-ons and follows an earlier €45 million proposal that City rejected.
James Webb captures a cosmic lion sculpted by a dying star
A dying star at the center of NGC 2392 is blasting radiation into surrounding gas and dust, sculpting the nebula's distinctive lion-like appearance. The white dwarf's intense energy illuminates dusty clumps that form the nebula's sprawling mane while carving out the lion's face.
A strange crystal made of electrons just revealed its hidden motion
Researchers discovered optical signals that reveal both the location and collective motion of electrons in a Wigner crystal by shining light on atomically thin material cooled near absolute zero. The findings provide direct observation of how electrons in this quantum state organize and move together as a structured pattern.