2026-09-01

U.S. 10-year Treasury yield surged past 4.75%, highest since early 2025

Rising oil prices and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole remarks drove a broad Treasury selloff on Monday [...]

2026-09-01

The Pentagon is deploying Grok and ChatGPT for its 1.7 million active military users

The Defense Department expanded GenAI.mil with two new commercial AI tools, giving personnel access to secure versions of popular AI products [...]

2026-09-01

Shein stock stumbles in Hong Kong debut, valued at a fraction of its 2022 peak

The fast-fashion company raised $1.74 billion at a final offer price of HK$48.56, giving it a market value of around $26.5 billion [...]

2026-09-01

House Intelligence Committee warned AI could help terrorists build far deadlier weapons

A bipartisan report reviewing the legacy of the 9/11 Commission found existing safeguards may not keep pace with AI's rapid advancement [...]

2026-09-01

Trump claimed U.S. growth could hit 20%, a rate almost never seen in modern history

The U.S. economy grew at just 1.5% in the second quarter of 2026, and only one quarter since 1947 has ever hit 20% growth [...]

2026-09-01

When AI Becomes the Interface, What Happens to SaaS?

For years, logging into martech software meant entering a dashboard. Whether someone needed to analyze sales, review customer data, monitor campaign performance or manage an account, the dashboard served as the starting point. Software companies invested heavily in making those environments easier to navigate because getting customers into the application was central to how the product delivered v [...]

2026-09-01

Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real

Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-09-01

What Android looked like in 2008 vs. today

Early Androids were the tech equivalent of alternative rock. iPhones were far too mainstream for some of us, and Android felt like home. [...]

2026-09-01

'I closed my inbox and waited to see how the afternoon went' — I gave ChatGPT permission to watch my inbox, then stopped checking my email

I tested ChatGPT’s event-triggered tasks by letting it screen my Gmail for an afternoon. [...]