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Chinese models just swept the top five spots on the world’s largest AI marketplace. American labs still own the frontier. Don’t get caught in between.

By Mark MinevichAugust 21, 2026
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why so few people copy his strategy—now he’s backing $7 billion Liverpool FC
Billionaire Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why so few people copy his strategy—now he’s backing $7 billion Liverpool FC
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 21, 2026
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Supermicro investigation clears CEO in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme while a criminal trial involving a cofounder is set for next year

The AI-hardware maker’s board found no evidence CEO Charles Liang knew anything about alleged chip smuggling but a pending trial could bring more legal exposure to the beleaguered company.

By Amanda GerutAugust 20, 2026
Trump oblivious to voter fury about data centers, saying ‘the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous’

“It is yet another dimension in which the White House appears tone deaf,” said James Henson of the Texas Politics Project at UT, Austin.

By Jesse Bedayn, Marc Levy, Scott Bauer and The Associated PressAugust 20, 2026
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As large language models become more interchangeable, balance sheets will matter as much as tech breakthroughs in the AI race. 

By Amit JoshiAugust 20, 2026
Instagram took ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach to kids, former engineer testifies — and pay was tied to keeping them online

“If you step away from the product, they are not going to make any money,” Arturo Béjar testified. It had the tools to know better, too.

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated PressAugust 20, 2026
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Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024’s great deals look like 2026’s clear mistakes
Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024’s great deals look like 2026’s clear mistakes

In venture capital, the half-life of a thesis has never been shorter.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 20, 2026
Texas’ screwworm could be fatal for the unadopted dogs and cats in rescue shelters statewide

“It’s thrown a wrench into things, for small rescues as well as the bigger shelters,” said Mia Bendixsen of the Texas Humane Legislation Network.

By The Associated Press and John HannaAugust 19, 2026
Exclusive: Replit taps OpenAI’s low-cost Luna model for new ‘Free Mode’

An 80% reduction in the cost of tokens for OpenAI’s Luna allowed Replit to roll out the new service, which despite its ‘free’ name, still requires a monthly subscription.

By Emily ForliniAugust 19, 2026
Moderna’s and Merck’s personalized mRNA vaccine shows real promise against deadly skin cancer melanoma in late stage trial and sends stocks soaring

The shot, paired with Merck’s Keytruda, cut the risk of melanoma recurrence in a trial of more than 1,100 patients.

By Catherina GioinoAugust 19, 2026
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The AI industry is getting better at spotting dangerous behavior. It is less clear that labs know how to stop it.

Recent incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta show what happens when increasingly capable AI agents are tested in flawed environments. A new assessment finds leading labs are better at spotting risky behavior than reliably stopping it.

By Beatrice NolanAugust 20, 2026
AI won’t fix a broken company. Rewiring it will

Picture a railroad that spends billions on the fastest trains in the world, then runs them on the same aging rails. The tracks are the constraint.

By Sastry Durvasula and Manish SharmaAugust 20, 2026
‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products

In 3D model marketplace CGTrader, AI-generated assets made up one-sixth of newly uploaded models, but just 2.6% of sales.

By Sasha RogelbergAugust 20, 2026
Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it

Boards, CEOs, and the executives who report to them are sharply divided on who owns AI.

By Amanda GerutAugust 20, 2026
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Bill Ackman’s $400 million brain institute was inspired by his daughter—and built outside elite universities, which he says are losing talent

The billionaire investor said campus politics and funding cuts have made academia less attractive

By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 20, 2026
Moderna co-founder is a billionaire once again at $1.7 billion—he once turned down 20 high-paying job offers to ‘have more of an impact on the world’

Billionaire biotech pioneer Robert Langer advises workers to do what makes them happy over money and job security: “If you give up too easily, that’s not good.”

By Emma BurleighAugust 20, 2026
Amazon drones attack suburbs nationwide as delivery pilot expanded to nearly 500 cities

“It’s still an experiment. It’s still in test and learn mode,” said Sucharita Kodali, who is a retail analyst with Forrester.

By Josh Funk and The Associated PressAugust 19, 2026
A SpaceX rocket carved out a crater on the moon as long as a bowling lane with ‘butterfly wing’ streaks

It took six days before the crash scene came into view

By The Associated Press and Marcia DunnAugust 19, 2026
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Senators demand answers from TikTok About ‘depraved’ experiment
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The company withheld an algorithmic safeguard from roughly 15 million users, including minors, according to a confidential internal document.

By Olivia Carville and BloombergAugust 20, 2026
‘Harvest their data and hide the truth from the public’: Four states seek billions from Meta over child safety practices

The suit looks to make fundamental changes to how Meta runs its social media platforms to better serve child privacy and safety.

By Barbara Ortutay, Kaitlyn Huamani and The Associated PressAugust 19, 2026
Inside the $8 billion cybersecurity acquisition that helped ServiceNow’s stock buck the ‘Saaspocalypse’ fears

The deal for Yevgeny Dibrov’s Armis was Israel’s second-largest tech startup exit ever.

By Lily Mae LazarusAugust 19, 2026
‘I think that we’re going to make history here’: Angry parents of kids sextorted, cyberbullied or addicted to social media are out for vengeance

As opening statements kicked off Tuesday in a trial for Meta Platforms, advocates and parents of social media victims gathered outside the courthouse.

By The Associated Press and Kaitlyn HuamaniAugust 19, 2026
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