2026-08-18

Google is paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines' emails and data to train AI

The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval [...]

2026-08-18

10 skills hiring managers say they can't find enough of

Employers can't find enough workers with these 10 skills in 2026, spanning AI literacy, cybersecurity, skilled trades and critical thinking [...]

2026-08-18

New SEC filing reveals how deep Situational Awareness' memory chip bet was before it blew up

The fund's top 5 positions — including Sandisk at $5.7 billion and Micron at $5.6 billion — all fell sharply in July as the AI trade reversed [...]

2026-08-18

Stocks pressured as US-Iran ceasefire collapses, oil climbs

The 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2007 as oil climbed and chip stocks dragged Nasdaq futures lower [...]

2026-08-18

The Collaboration Layer: Why Every Enterprise AI Strategy Needs One

Progress in science, like all major human achievements, accelerated through collaboration. In 1665, Philosophical Transactions was founded in London, becoming the world's first scientific journal. It established a principle that changed everything: claims should be evaluated by a community, not merely asserted by an individual. Scientific reasoning paired with open collaboration allowed knowl [...]

2026-08-18

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims, zero local disk […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-18

As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides. [...]

2026-08-18

Spotify just unveiled a new tool that lets you Bridget Jones-ify your playlists with notes explaining your song choices — and I’m ready to spill

Spotify's new Playlist Notes let you add context and background to the songs you love the most. [...]

2026-08-18

This wearable patch will buzz your arm when it detects poisons, and it could one day save your life

A new skin patch can warn you of environmental toxins using a clever system of haptic vibrations. [...]