Yuno Raises $45 Million to Drive Global Payments Push
Yuno raised $45 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native payments operating system for enterprises. The platform connects businesses through a single API to more than 1,000 payment and financial service providers.
Models of glacial collapse in Antarctica improve predictions of sea-level rise
Improved models of glacial collapse in Antarctica now provide more reliable predictions of sea-level rise, with current estimates ranging from half a meter to 2 meters by the end of the 21st century. Every centimeter of sea-level rise could displace 1.5 million people globally.
Doué seals Super Cup glory for PSG after Madjo makes history for Aston Villa
PSG defeated Aston Villa 2-1 in the UEFA Super Cup, with Ousmane Doué scoring the winning goal at minute 62. Seventeen-year-old Brian Madjo became the competition's youngest scorer with Aston Villa's goal in the 45th minute.
Companies Want to Own Their AI, Not Rent It
Enterprises are shifting toward owning specialized AI models instead of renting general-purpose ones used by all competitors. Specialized alternatives can cost five to ten times less to run than rented models while keeping proprietary data internal.
Ethereum L2 and Arbitrum Tech enabled Robinhood Chain Records Steady Increase in Daily Transactions
Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network using Arbitrum technology, processed an average of 11.6 million daily transactions in its most recent full week. This transaction volume represents a new record for the network.
Housecall Pro Brings Klarna Payment Tools to Home Service Pros
Housecall Pro's platform now offers customers Klarna payment options including pay in full, Pay in 4, and longer-term financing for home service charges. These solutions allow homeowners additional payment methods for repairs and home improvement projects through their service providers.
NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon
Water and minerals including iron and titanium exist on the lunar surface and require special equipment for extraction and processing. Lunar Station Corp. is using NASA data to determine resource locations to guide landing sites and mining operations.
Jack Draper: ‘When you reach rock bottom like that you can come back up again’
Jack Draper cried during a first-round match at the Canadian Open while losing to Térence Atmane, having struggled for 15 months with a bone bruise injury to his left arm. The former world No. 4 described reaching rock bottom emotionally after a year of unsuccessful attempts to return to consistent high-level competition.
Triple-double king Russell Westbrook calls time on 18-year NBA career
Russell Westbrook retired after 18 NBA seasons, holding the record for 209 triple-doubles. The 2017 MVP and two-time scoring champion spent his first 11 seasons with Oklahoma City Thunder.
Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series
Google's Tensor G6 chip delivers 25% faster browsing and 20% better power efficiency alongside a TPU with 50% more compute capacity. The Pixel 11 models include a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST's post-quantum cryptography standards for the first time on a Google phone.
Cisco’s AI Outlook Disappoints Investors Seeking Bigger Payoff
Cisco projects $7.5 billion in AI data center sales for the current fiscal year, below the $9.3 billion in AI-related orders accumulated over the past year. Investors viewed this forecast as disappointing given the company's position as the largest networking gear supplier.
Intuit Debuts AI Tools for Middle Market Companies
Intuit introduced AI-centered updates to its QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite platforms for middle market companies. The new tools are designed to help finance teams explain how financial numbers were calculated.
Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone
Uber's iOS app code shows development of a feature allowing children aged 10 to 12 to ride alone with a trusted adult contact and optional requirement for an adult at pickup. The company stated this is not yet a live product, with its current teen offering limited to ages 13 to 17.
CFTC Invokes Emergency Powers to Keep Prediction Markets Platform Kalshi Operational
The CFTC invoked emergency powers to maintain operations for prediction markets platform Kalshi following a market disruption alert from KalshiEX. The emergency action was triggered by a lawsuit from New York's Attorney General challenging the platform's regulatory status.
Leadership now means thinking across industries
Modern organizations face challenges like trust and sustainability that transcend sector boundaries, yet leadership training still emphasizes mastery within single industries. Cross-industry leadership,learning from superyacht builders to rethink universities or applying retail logistics to hospitals,is the skill now required but rarely taught.
CloudSEK Links March LiteLLM Supply Chain Breach to 2,500 Organizations
A March 2026 supply chain breach of LiteLLM, an open-source AI model gateway, exposed more than 2,500 organizations. The compromise affected approximately 434,000 CI/CD pipelines that had been touched by the exposure.
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.