2026-09-01

SEC is demanding proof that investment firms actually hold the startup shares they're selling

The regulator stepped up examinations of special purpose vehicles after a rise in investor complaints and a marketing push tied to SpaceX and Anthropic IPOs [...]

2026-09-01

Mangoes sold at Walmart stores in four Northeast states recalled over salmonella risk

The mangoes, sold at select Walmart locations in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, were distributed Aug. 10–21 [...]

2026-09-01

Enterprise software led August's rebound as AI fears faded, Cramer says

Moderna stock led the index after melanoma vaccine data, while a hedge fund's forced unwind turbocharged a rebound in enterprise software [...]

2026-09-01

OpenAI blamed Apple's own security practices for its trade secrets mess

OpenAI filed a court brief calling the dispute "a mess of Apple's own making," citing the company's data policies and offboarding procedures [...]

2026-09-01

Physical Superintelligence Raises $58M Seed Round

Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross launched Physical Superintelligence (PSI) on September 1, 2026, announcing $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company described itself as an AI-native physics lab staffed by virtual physicists, built to create higher-fidelity world models, engineer physical systems beyond human desig [...]

2026-09-01

Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes

Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrictions for AI-generated campaign material, Reuters reported. The proposed rules go beyond simply banning deceptive deepfakes. […]<br /> This s [...]

2026-09-01

The pros and cons of using a TV as your computer monitor

In the age‑old debate over whether a TV can truly replace a computer monitor, several important differences in design and performance set the two apart. [...]

2026-09-01

Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still [...]

2026-09-01

NordVPN's antivirus tool blocks 94% of phishing sites in latest independent test

NordVPN’s next-gen antivirus just crushed the AV-Comparatives Q3 2026 phishing test with a 94% block rate and zero false positives. Here's why that matters for your everyday digital safety. [...]