Study finds a 15 percent increase in traffic deaths after major music streaming releases

Drivers may be more distracted on days when a big new album drops. [...]

Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China paying the steepest

Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report. Two people familiar with the matter said the increases fo [...]

Meta AI Lands on Mac With Screen Sharing and a Business Pitch

Meta launched a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving the assistant a native desktop home for the first time and pairing it with a set of business connections aimed at the creators [...]

Ramp Opens Router.com Model Gateway With Free Routing Through 2026

Ramp, the corporate-spend platform that powers more than $200 billion in purchases annually, launched Router.com on August 19, 2026: a single API endpoint that sends each AI request to the lowest-cost [...]

Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools

Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the chang [...]

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

Another day, another new AI agent harness is released.Only this time, it's one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agen [...]

SANY Ships First Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks to South America

SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company's first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. Th [...]

Skanska Signs $1.2B Contract to Build Four Data Centers in the Southeast USA

Skanska has signed a contract with an existing client to build four new data centers in the southeast region of the USA, a deal worth USD 1.2 billion (about SEK 11.2 billion), the Swedish construction [...]

Samsung is holding another Galaxy Event on August 27

Samsung says it will be launching a new addition to its S26 lineup next week. [...]