2026-08-10

Boeing is selling its air taxi and drone units to Archer Aviation for a stake in the startup

The deal hands Archer control of Boeing's air taxi, drone, and air traffic management units as Boeing refocuses on its core businesses [...]

2026-08-10

ConocoPhillips is getting a new CEO as it pushes to deliver a $7 billion cash flow goal

CFO Andy O'Brien will take the top job on September 1 as the company pushes toward a $7 billion free cash flow target by 2029 [...]

2026-08-10

Situational Awareness poured $400 million into a stealth chip startup after nearly collapsing

The AI-focused hedge fund has now committed $500 million to Source Foundry, a Stanford-founded startup aiming to challenge ASML in chip manufacturing equipment [...]

2026-08-10

Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in the power company behind Stargate

The deal values Lancium, which owns the first operational Stargate site in Abilene, Texas, at around $10 billion [...]

2026-08-10

Why Agentic AI Will Fail Without Trusted Asset Data

Agentic AI is moving quickly from discussion to deployment in asset-intensive industries. Unlike generative AI, which summarizes information or drafts recommendations, agentic AI can take a goal, break it into steps, pull data from multiple systems, and act on it. It can review maintenance history, check open work orders, compare crew schedules and generate a recommendation without requiring a per [...]

2026-08-10

Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than 20 GB of memory. In an accompanying essay, Mark Zuckerberg mounts an aggressive defense of distilling other labs' models and calls for fewer restrictions on US labs, a direct counterpunch at Open [...]

2026-08-10

Samsung patches nearly 200 security issues on its phone hardware - here's what you need to know

Samsung's bloatware carried dangerous flaws that enabled access to the phone's microphone and camera. [...]

2026-08-10

Why AI-powered jobsite intelligence is key to maximizing construction productivity

The combined power of AI & visual intelligence help contractors tackle a looming productivity gap. [...]

2026-08-10

My favorite budget clip-style open earbuds have a successor which solves two major problems with these designs

The Soundpeats UU2 are clip-style earbuds with physical touch controls and sound leakage avoidance. [...]