qz

2026-08-26

TWG Global is pushing back on fraud reports as federal investigators close in

The holding company also denied plans to sell sports assets at distressed prices, saying the Lakers sale represented a 25% premium to what Mark Walter paid [...]

qz

2026-08-26

Kohl's stock sank after a tariff refund masked another quarter of falling sales

The department store received $150 million in tariff refunds in the second quarter, lifting its full-year earnings outlook but not its underlying sales trend [...]

qz

2026-08-26

Wall Street's biggest bull is raising his S&P 500 target — but warns against chasing AI stocks

The strategist has lifted his year-end target three times in 2026, but says he would not chase AI stocks right now [...]

Destination

2026-08-26

Kargo’s Camera Towers Automate Receiving at Lineage’s Alabama Warehouse

Kargo, the San Francisco-based company behind an AI vision system for automated inventory capture, and Lineage, the world's largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT, announced on August 26, 2026 that automated receiving operations are now running at Lineage's Decatur, Alabama warehouse. The facility supports adjacent poultry plants operated by one of the nation's largest [...]

Destination

2026-08-26

SandboxAQ Makes Switch Free to Put Any AI Agent in Slack and Teams

SandboxAQ has released Switch, software that pulls AI agents built on rival frameworks into the same Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord channels where employees already work, and made the code publicly available at no cost. The company announced the launch on August 26, 2026, positioning Switch as the coordination layer between the agents developers are building and the collaboration tools enterpr [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-26

Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal data of children who used its platforms. Diana Novak Jones reported the figure for Reuters on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-26

Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations

Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25 August has caused “a global disruption to the Company’s operations”, including its ability to process and ship customer orders. Shares fell about 3.5% in premarket trading, and the company has not identified who is responsible, in a year […]<br /> This story continues at [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-26

Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is

AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didn’t matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, a cowork app, or a coding tool. I think that pitch has become the industry’s biggest liability. At Decodo, we recently reviewed […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-26

SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists

SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists. [...]