2026-08-25

JPMorgan predicts booming humanoid robot demand as cost falls below $10 per hour

A new JPMorgan research note argues that humanoid robots could fill a large share of unfilled U.S. manufacturing jobs as hourly costs drop below $10 [...]

2026-08-25

Oil sinks to a one-week low as investors shrug off U.S.-Iran economic war

Brent crude fell more than 3% on Tuesday as traders viewed U.S. economic pressure on Iran as less disruptive to oil supply than military escalation [...]

2026-08-25

OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin misinformation

The accounts promoted a fake Israeli think tank complete with plagiarized academic articles and a "sovereignty index" that praised Russia [...]

2026-08-25

SEC subpoenaed Wall Street banks over AI hedge fund Situational Awareness's near-collapse

The regulator sought details on the fund's trades, leverage, and communications with lenders including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America [...]

2026-08-25

SpaceX is targeting late 2027 to launch Nvidia-powered AI satellites into orbit

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company plans to launch its first Starmind AI satellites in the fourth quarter of 2027 and scale up in 2028 [...]

2026-08-25

Multiverse Computing’s 4-Bit Healing Beats Full-Precision Model

Multiverse Computing published a technique on August 25, 2026 that inverts one of the most reliable tradeoffs in model deployment: a large language model compressed to half its parameters and quantized to 4 bits that scores higher than the full-precision checkpoint it was built from. The method, called Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH), is detailed in a company blog post and a companion paper, and [...]

2026-08-25

The U.S. and the EU regulate AI differently

The comparison explains why the EU may reconsider its AI-related regulation. [...]

2026-08-25

The AI adoption phase is over

The next competitive advantage is trust. [...]

2026-08-25

Can AI discover new biology?

What a novel non-opioid pain candidate reveals about the future of drug discovery [...]