Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput
Marker 2 achieved a 76.0 score on olmOCR-bench and processes 2.9 pages per second on one B200 GPU, exceeding MinerU's throughput by over 5 times. The rewritten three-mode pipeline surpasses both Docling and LiteParse in accuracy and speed metrics.
Edenred Upgrades Forecast as Tech-Heavy Strategic Plan Delivers Early Gains
Edenred upgraded its EBITDA guidance for the year based on early results from its Amplify 25-28 strategic plan. The company operates digital solutions for employees, fleet managers, and corporate payments across 44 countries.
Flex Seeks Bank Charter to Scale Flexible Rent Payments
Flex Finance submitted applications to the FDIC and Utah Department of Financial Institutions to establish Flex Bank, a state-chartered industrial bank. The company aims to use the bank charter to expand its Flex Rent product, which offers flexible rent payment options.
This Week in Stablecoins: Visa, Goldman and Samsung Raise the Stakes
Visa launched a new Stablecoin Platform that enables financial institutions, FinTechs, and crypto companies to participate in stablecoin issuance and settlement. Goldman Sachs and Samsung also entered the stablecoin market this week, signaling traditional corporations' growing interest in the business.
SpaceX Starship Deploys Starlink Craft During Post-IPO Test
SpaceX's Starship deployed upgraded Starlink satellites and returned to Earth largely intact during a test flight. The deployment advances plans to scale the rocket business into satellite communications and artificial intelligence capabilities.
World Foundation Raises $52 Million as AI Drives Demand for ID Solutions
World Foundation raised $52.5 million by selling WLD tokens with a one-year lockup to strategic investors. The funding will expand World ID technology access to organizations, consumers, and AI agents.
Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF Nearly Notches $400M in Assets
Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF has accumulated nearly $400 million in assets despite investor outflows from other Bitcoin ETFs. The fund received fresh cash while the broader Bitcoin ETF market experienced withdrawals this week.
Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, replacing Opus 4.8 as its flagship model while maintaining pricing at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The new model approaches Claude Fable 5's intelligence capabilities at half the cost and became the default model on the platform.
Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera
A UK employment tribunal ruled that Holiday Extras discriminated against remote worker Laura Tait by forcing her to turn on her camera during video training despite her anxiety, ADHD, and autism diagnosis. The tribunal found the company failed to make reasonable adjustments for Tait's documented disabilities.
Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI
Twenty-six Meta employees sued the company claiming AI was used to select them for layoffs, with dashboards tracking AI token usage among factors allegedly influencing the decisions. Meta's HR director countered that human business leaders made all termination choices and that the process excluded consideration of leave status, disability status, and protected characteristics.
Long-lived ytterbium states could sharpen quantum computing and atomic clocks
Researchers demonstrated that ytterbium ions can enter long-lived, nearly stable states previously uncertain for decades. These states could improve quantum computers and atomic clocks by enabling longer coherence times in quantum systems.
Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia implemented a social media ban for children in late 2025 to address cyberbullying, addiction, and predator exposure. Vietnam is now considering similar restrictions as other countries adopt comparable policies limiting youth access to these platforms.
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable 5's performance on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while costing half the price per token. Anthropic describes it as the most aligned model it has shipped to date.
Businesses Are Borrowing Again and Regional Banks Are Cashing In
Commercial and industrial loans at KeyCorp increased $2.1 billion, or 3%, during the second quarter. Regional banks including KeyCorp, Regions Financial, and PNC reported growth through new loans, larger credit commitments, and increased use of existing credit lines.
FDA advisers say six popular peptides can be compounded. Here are the issues they considered.
FDA advisers recommended allowing six peptides to be compounded, potentially expanding access to these wellness products for Americans. The group included experts with peptide industry involvement who weighed various regulatory considerations in their decision.
Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla added 200,000 Full Self-Driving subscribers in the second quarter, reaching nearly 1.5 million active users total, the largest single-quarter gain on record. In North America during Q2, 55 percent of vehicle deliveries included FSD activated at the point of purchase.
State Department to Debut Freedom Tech Program with Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir as Founding Partners
The State Department is launching a Freedom Tech Program with the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Palantir as founding partners. The initiative aims to protect free expression online.
Jensen Huang has a message about AI doomerism for his fellow tech leaders
Jensen Huang stated that AI will not end humanity or destroy half of American jobs, calling such claims "complete nonsense." He criticized fellow tech CEOs for scaring the public away from AI adoption and urged policymakers to consult diverse perspectives rather than restricting technology based on hypothetical scenarios like singularity or simulation theories.
Sygnum Bank Enables Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana Trading for Swiss BancaStato
BancaStato customers can now trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Solana through a partnership between the Swiss bank and cryptocurrency specialist Sygnum. The regulated trading service leverages Sygnum's expertise and Avaloq's core banking technology.
Scientists turn modern biobanks into a new window on human evolution
Scientists are using large population biobanks to study how natural selection shapes modern human genomes, building on traditional approaches like fossils and ancient DNA. This research examines genetic variation across living populations to reconstruct ongoing evolutionary processes in humans.
VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up
Enterprises deployed AI agents before establishing governance controls, with 57 to 68 percent planning to switch or add vendors within 12 months across five control layers measured. Only 10 percent of enterprises said true agents comprise the majority of their deployments, while 71 percent reported that a quarter or fewer of deployed "agents" can complete multi-step work independently.
Coinbase Loses Another Executive Weeks After Cutting 700 Jobs
Coinbase's chief people officer resigned approximately 11 weeks after overseeing a workforce reduction of 700 employees. His departure included a significantly more favorable exit agreement than those offered to the terminated workers.
New methods for removing harmful nitrates from drinking water identified
Scientists identified new methods to remove nitrates from drinking water contamination caused by fertilizers and livestock manure in agricultural areas. The techniques target groundwater sources that rural households depend on through private wells that often lack routine testing protocols.
Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
Automated bot traffic now exceeds human traffic on the internet, crossing 50 percent of all webpage requests in June and reaching nearly 58 percent according to Cloudflare data. This marks the first time bots have outnumbered humans in the web's history.
OpenAI gets sued over ChatGPT medical advice gone wrong
ChatGPT allegedly discouraged a user from seeking medical treatment for symptoms that later led to a pulmonary embolism, telling him he needed eight to ten more dizzy episodes before the issue would be emergent. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by a 55-year-old Florida resident represented by Tech Justice Law and other legal advocates.
Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent
Intel's second-quarter 2026 revenue reached $16 billion, marking 25 percent year-over-year growth and the fastest expansion since late 2011. AI data centre revenue surged 59 percent, while adjusted earnings per share hit 42 cents, double the 21-cent Wall Street estimate.
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
Cognition acquired Poke to integrate its conversational interaction model into the coding agent Devin. The deal reflects industry recognition that an AI assistant's interaction style has become as strategically important as the underlying language model technology.
Clarity Act on the Ropes as Ethics Fight and Shrinking Calendar Threaten Passage
The Clarity Act, a cryptocurrency market-structure bill, faces passage delays as Senate Democrats reject Republican ethics language provisions. With the August recess approaching and the legislative calendar shrinking, analysts have reduced odds that the bill will clear the Senate chamber before that deadline.
Upstart Receives Conditional Approval for De Novo Bank Charter
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Upstart conditional approval to establish a newly formed national bank four months after the company submitted its application. Upstart Bank will operate as a full-service national bank under a de novo charter.
NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon
One of NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light from 363,250 miles away. The spacecraft was 115,600 miles from the Moon when it took the images.