2026-08-18

Novig surpassed $125 million in first-week trading, topping rivals Kalshi and Polymarket

The platform's opening-week volume surpassed that of Kalshi, Polymarket U.S., Underdog, and DraftKings' DKeX [...]

2026-08-18

State Farm is sending $5 billion in dividend checks to auto insurance customers

The payments, the largest in the company's history, cover more than 49 million vehicles and range from 4% to 10% of 2025 premiums paid [...]

2026-08-18

SoftBank put two-thirds of its U.S. stock portfolio into Intel, SEC filing shows

The Japanese investment group held 86.9 million Intel shares worth $12.1 billion as of June 30, dwarfing all other U.S. equity positions [...]

2026-08-18

Dreyer's is recalling Outshine frozen fruit bars over possible glass contamination

The recall covers five flavors of 6-count, 2.5-ounce bars distributed to retailers nationwide, with no injuries reported [...]

2026-08-18

McDonald's is pairing Hello Kitty with Godzilla in a new limited-edition Happy Meal

The promotion pairs Sanrio characters with monsters from the Godzilla franchise in 8 collectible toys, available for a limited time [...]

2026-08-18

Tokenmaxxing is out, valuemaxxing is in

After months of rewarding heavy AI token usage, companies like Tesla, Uber, and Meta are capping spending and shifting from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing. [...]

2026-08-18

AI coding tools unlock small software

As AI coding tools drive development costs toward zero, millions of small, once-unbuildable programs are finally worth making. [...]

2026-08-18

Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x

Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or not capable enough for hard ones. Model routing, which picks the right model for each task automatically, is becoming the fix.Snowflake’s Cortex AI Gateway now offers dynamic model routing to address that: enterprises can select “au [...]

2026-08-18

Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequence is stranger than the number. The phone call that gave it away David Mann runs […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]