Serena and Venus Williams lose first doubles match since 2022 U.S. Open
Serena and Venus Williams lost their doubles match at the Cincinnati Open against Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns with a score of 6-2, 1-6, 1-0(8). This was Serena's first match on U.S. soil in nearly four years and her fourth match overall since returning to professional tennis in summer.
Arsenal primed for Premier League title defence as rivals face questions
Arsenal finished seven points ahead of Manchester City last season and will defend their Premier League title. The club aims to win consecutive English titles for the first time since the 1930s.
Jeanie Buss reportedly attempting to halt her siblings’ attempt to sell remaining stake in Lakers
Jeanie Buss is attempting to block her siblings' plan to sell the family's remaining 17.8% stake in the Lakers to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner through legal action. Her lawyer sought to halt the sale on legal grounds after the Buss family announced their intention to proceed with the transaction.
Fundstrat predicts Bitcoin is overdue for 30% price moves
Bitcoin is overdue for 30% price movements according to Fundstrat analysis. Missing key trading days can drastically reduce returns when such swings occur.
Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
Bot Mode for Hermes Agent now allows users to create a roster of named bots, each with individual chat histories, memory, skills, and pinned models. This feature is bundled and enabled by default in Hermes Desktop for the MIT-licensed open source agent.
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large language model to generate GPU kernels faster than compilers. On KernelBench, the base model Seed1.6 passes 74.0% of test cases.
HIVE Digital Technologies Secures 5-Yr AI Cloud Agreement, Boosting Annualized Revenue by $70M
HIVE Digital Technologies secured a five-year AI cloud computing agreement through its BUZZ subsidiary that will add $70 million in annualized revenue. The deal expands HIVE's artificial intelligence computing business beyond its existing renewable-powered digital infrastructure and Bitcoin mining operations.
Disney Parks' D23 keynote was packed — here's everything new coming to Disney World and Disneyland, including Piston Peak, Avengers Campus, and Villains Land
Disney announced multiple new themed lands coming to its parks, including Piston Peak, Villains Land, Monstropolis, Tropical Americas, Avengers Campus, Coco, and a reimagined Tomorrowland. The company provided detailed updates on these attractions during its D23 keynote presentation to showcase upcoming expansions.
Anthropic Run-Rate Revenue Hits $65 Billion as IPO Looms
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion by late July 2026, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025. The company approaches an initial public offering as a run-rate projection based on recent short-period revenue extrapolated to a full year.
Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
A 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba called Qwen3.8-27B was released with a 262,144-token context window, native image and video understanding, and coding capabilities. The model requires roughly 56GB of GPU memory at full precision, 28GB with FP8 quantization, or 17GB with 4-bit quantization.
Immune cells have a 'sense of touch,' scientists discover
Tissue-resident memory T cells can sense physical touch through mechanical forces, not just biochemical signals. This mechanosensing ability, discovered by McGill University researchers, shapes how these immune cells develop long-term immunity in tissues.
X Money Wants to Make the Feed a Financial Front Door
X Money is testing whether a social platform can become a primary payment tool for consumers. The service faces competition from established digital wallets, stored merchant credentials, and dedicated payment apps already integrated into consumer payment routines.
Molecular electromagnetic sensor may enable remote-controlled gene therapy
Researchers developed a molecular electromagnetic sensor that uses DNA regulatory elements as gene switches for potential therapeutic applications. The sensor enables noninvasive control of gene expression in living organisms, particularly for treating genetic disorders through remote activation mechanisms.
Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US
Twenty-nine state attorneys general began opening statements in a consumer protection case against Meta in Oakland with a jury already seated. The trial is expected to last approximately five weeks with lawyers from California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey presenting arguments.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4975-4981: Happy 14th Landing Anniversary
The Curiosity rover celebrated its 14th landing anniversary on Mars. The rover has been operating on Mars for 14 years since its original landing date.
Square Accelerates Push to Integrate Small Business Finance
Square is integrating its Credit Card refresh with payments, banking, credit, and bill management tools into a single platform. The company, led by product head Andrea Raj, aims to consolidate small business financial services within its ecosystem.
Premier League 2026-27 preview No 13: Leeds
Leeds finished 14th last season and reached an FA Cup semi-final under manager Daniel Farke. Guardian writers predict they will finish 12th in the 2026-27 season.
Red blood cells inspire next-generation therapeutic nanocarriers
Scientists engineered extracellular vesicles based on red blood cells that can evade immune cells and target cancer cells for drug delivery. These nanocarriers show promise for gene therapy and tumor targeting applications according to research published in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished
Wispr raised $280 million at a $2 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $361 million. The company's dictation app, Wispr Flow, converts speech into cleaned-up text that inserts directly into any application where the cursor is positioned.
An AI agent built a working exploit for this macOS flaw in four hours
An AI agent built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS in four hours. Security researchers withheld details of CVE-2026-65400 because the exploit was created too quickly for attackers to potentially replicate.
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats
The Justice Department is investigating whether Andreessen Horowitz partners improperly hold board seats at competing artificial intelligence companies. The investigation, which has been underway for nearly a year, centers on potential conflicts of interest from simultaneous board memberships.
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor launched Origin, a code hosting platform competing with GitHub, on Monday morning. A six-hour-and-forty-two-minute GitHub outage occurring hours later caused error rates near 20% for pull requests and APIs, with some services reaching 50% failure rates.
The number of ‘negative-beta’ stocks in the S&P 500 just hit a new record high. What that means for investors.
The proportion of negative-beta stocks in the S&P 500 has reached a record high, meaning these stocks increasingly move opposite to the broader index on any given day. This pattern creates volatility greater than what the overall index performance would suggest.
UPS Automates 90% of Daily Customs Clearances With AI Agents
AI agents now handle 90% of daily customs clearances for UPS packages entering the United States. The automation replaced manual review processes that previously caused multi-day border delays in package classification and error detection.
N3XT Unveils Tokenized Cross-Border Payments
Wyoming regulators approved N3XT's digital token for cross-border payments between customers and non-customers. The blockchain bank can now offer instant overseas transfers using its tokenized system.
Fifa chief sacked after criticism of Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan
Fifa's chief operating officer Kevin Lamour was fired after criticizing Gianni Infantino's plan to sell World Cup broadcasting rights to private investors through the FFE scheme. Lamour had accused Fifa's administration of being "deceived" and departed less than two years after joining from Uefa.
NASA Selects Companies to Provide Payload Processing Services
Four companies were selected by NASA to provide payload processing facilities for agency missions launching from multiple locations. The Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract on-ramp provision enables qualified providers to offer these commercial services where capabilities were previously unavailable.
AI Agents Can Move Money, But They Can’t Pay for Their Mistakes
AI agents can autonomously move money and conduct transactions without human intervention, but existing U.S. law cannot hold them legally responsible for errors or wrongdoing. This accountability gap represents a central legal challenge as businesses deploy autonomous systems capable of executing financial transactions independently.
Anthropic’s Annualized Revenue Tops $65 Billion Before IPO
Anthropic's annualized revenue has exceeded $65 billion, representing a sevenfold increase from the previous year's pace. The company is preparing for an initial public offering based on this financial performance.
Datavault AI Plans $94.5 Million CyberCatch Buy to Shield Organizations Against AI Attacks
Datavault AI is acquiring cybersecurity company CyberCatch for $94.5 million to add quantum-resistant cyber risk mitigation capabilities to its platform. The deal will integrate CyberCatch's AI-enabled continuous compliance and cyber risk mitigation platform into Datavault AI's Quantum Private offering.