qz

2026-08-12

Nebius stock surged after beating revenue expectations on booming AI cloud demand

The AI cloud company reported $582.3 million in quarterly revenue, up 454% from a year earlier, as demand for computing capacity grew [...]

qz

2026-08-12

Inflation rose 0.1% in July, cooling slightly to 3.4% annually

Core inflation, which strips out food and energy, climbed 0.2% for the month and 2.5% over the past year [...]

qz

2026-08-12

Spotify is adding "AI Persona" badges to flag AI-generated artists on its platform

The badges will appear on artist profiles, in search results, and on track rows starting in mid-September, and labeled artists will be excluded from recommendations [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr – Interview Series

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Symplr, is a nursing and healthcare technology leader with experience spanning bedside care, clinical systems, and nursing informatics. Before becoming Chief Nursing Informatics Officer in 2024, she served as symplr’s Vice President of Nursing Informatics and held senior informatics roles at Halo focused on clinical communication, implementation, a [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

Skan AI’s Series C Bets Enterprise AI Needs a Map of Real Work

Skan AI, a Menlo Park startup whose software watches how employees actually move work through enterprise applications, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, the company announced on August 12, 2026. Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures also participated, taking total funding to roughly $120 million, a [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

What the EU AI Act Doesn’t Tell Founders About Training Data

Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires an AI system to disclose that a person is talking to a machine. It says nothing about what happens to that conversation once the disclosure is made. Founders building products on top of a foundation model focus on accuracy and price. The question of what happens to their users' data once it leaves their product and is processed by a third-party model rarel [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-12

Electric cars just hit a record share of China’s market. Their sales still fell

New energy vehicles took a record 65.1% of Chinese passenger car sales in July, but NEV volumes fell about 2% year on year, a seventh straight monthly decline, while the total market dropped 18%. Geely’s Xingyuan was the bestseller and BYD’s best performer managed only fifth over six months. Electric and hybrid cars took 65.1% […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-12

Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work. Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

How to clear the cache on your iPhone

Here's everything you need to know about cache, what it does and how it might be affecting your iPhone's performance. [...]