2026-08-26

Honda might not build a new North American factory without a USMCA extension

The automaker says it needs an eighth assembly plant but could change course if the trade agreement is not extended [...]

2026-08-26

Bath & Body Works raised its profit forecast — but its stock sank on a weak sales outlook

The personal care retailer beat second-quarter sales and earnings guidance but projected a sharper revenue decline for the third quarter [...]

2026-08-26

Vanguard agreed to buy financial adviser platform Altruist for about $4 billion

The deal would give the $12 trillion asset manager a larger foothold in independent financial advice through Altruist's custody and technology platform [...]

2026-08-26

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With Hybrid Attention and 6B Active Parameters Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on August 26, 2026, an open-weight experimental model that previews the architecture intended to underpin Qwen4. The model carries 125B parameters but activates only 6B per token, a configuration the team frames as a step toward what it calls ultimate c [...]

2026-08-26

Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement. [...]

2026-08-26

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications."In the rush [...]

2026-08-26

Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads

Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking company’s history. Millennium Management, ARK Invest and Intact Private Capital also took part, and the round brings Gatik’s total to about $500m since it came out of stealth […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-26

Mate Security unveils Gamebooks to bring trusted autonomy to AI-powered security investigations

As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organizations can trust it to act. SiliconANGLE first reported on Mate Security’s Gamebooks, a new architectural layer designed to give AI agents room to reason and adapt while […]<br /> This stor [...]

2026-08-26

Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states’ case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]