Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more — The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate that Apple seeded today has references to several unreleased products, from home devices to iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and Macs.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Monday, August 17, 2026
Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with transaction records and passport copies of IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy, leading to terrorism charges (Anton Zverev/Reuters)
Anton Zverev / Reuters:
Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with transaction records and passport copies of IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy, leading to terrorism charges — Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used …
Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex — Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren't shown on companies' balance sheets
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal)
Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal:
Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases — Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases
How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.
A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them — The company built its empire on electronics. CEO Hiroki Totoki says its future is entertainment
Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
Owen Walker / Financial Times:
Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development — Southeast Asian country emerges as key AI hub in boost for its economy — The AI boom has made global superstars out of a handful …
Saturday, August 15, 2026
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online — When Jane Doe 4, as she is identified in legal filings, arrived at her parents' house in Wyoming to set up a family party earlier this year …
Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (Anthropic)
Anthropic:
Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite — Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude …
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 — Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months …
Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
William Sandlund / Financial Times:
Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy — Support from Beijing has helped power 29% gain for Star 50 index this year — Backing from Beijing and an investor frenzy …
Friday, August 14, 2026
Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company — Largest US bank has continued to cultivate ties with prediction platform as it seeks $20bn valuation
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts — Meta Platforms Inc. says it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong …
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., and net income of ~$8.3B, driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., and net income of ~$8.3B, driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending — Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s revenue grew a faster-than-projected 11%, keeping up the steady pace of expansion it needs to finance …
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work — It was around 1.30am by the time Rakesh, a 45-year-old Oracle employee in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru …
Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats,...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...