qz

2026-08-28

A judge temporarily blocked the Postal Service's new mail-in voting rules ahead of the midterms

A federal judge in Boston issued a 14-day restraining order against new USPS regulations that would have added federal oversight to mail-in voting [...]

qz

2026-08-28

Warsh set to address Fed's rate path in today's Jackson Hole speech

Markets want clearer signals on inflation and rate hikes, but Warsh may decline to provide them [...]

qz

2026-08-28

Z.ai's secret AI model Ox Alpha was running on Chinese chips all along

The model topped OpenRouter usage charts anonymously before Z.ai claimed it and released its weights on Wednesday [...]

qz

2026-08-28

Stripe and Advent abandoned their $50 billion pursuit of PayPal

PayPal stock tumbled as much as 16% in premarket trading Friday after the consortium walked away from what would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts ever [...]

qz

2026-08-28

Gap slashed its full-year sales forecast after Old Navy badly missed

Old Navy comparable sales fell 4% in the second quarter, worse than expected, dragging down Gap's annual revenue target [...]

Destination

2026-08-28

Agents Are Always Day-One Hires. It’s Time We Designed for It.

By 2027, 74% of companies are expected to use agents in some capacity, according to a recent Deloitte study. For years, we’ve designed and built software to improve the human experience of navigating our apps, websites, operating systems, and documents. Now, the user isn’t a human at all. This has broader implications beyond shifting from dashboards and the controlled workflows we design for h [...]

Destination

2026-08-28

AI Shopping Doesn’t Move As Quickly As Brands Believe

AI has quickly become part of how consumers research products. Adobe Analytics found that traffic from generative AI tools to U.S. retail sites grew 693.4 percent during the 2025 holiday season compared with the previous year. A year earlier, Adobe found that 39 percent of surveyed U.S. consumers had already used generative AI for online shopping, with product research and recommendations among th [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-28

Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand

If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a month ago, you would have landed on an Italian underwear company, which is the more interesting half of the sentence. We checked the domain on Friday, after seeing some reports, and the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-28

How to add an intro to Apple CarPlay using Shortcuts

If you want your car to greet you every morning, the Shortcuts app can make it happen. [...]