Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
Garmin’s new Fenix 9 adds brighter screens and smoother map panning
The Garmin Fenix 9. | Image: Garmin Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport
The 10-year project in Vermilion Parish will include five launch complexes and infrastructure for Starship missions.
U.S. state banking associations plan to launch their own nationwide blockchain network
The “BankChain Alliance” is aiming for a 2027 launch, and would foster stablecoins, payments and tokenized deposits inside the banking system’s regulatory sphere.
XRP Hot Streak Cools as Traders Hit a Wall: Where Does It Go Next?
XRP has given back two days of gains after a vertical recovery, and the charts say the bounce just met a wall.
Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa
In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers – which, according to The Associated Press, would be … Read more
Zerohash back for second effort at OCC trust bank charter
The crypto infrastructure firm failed to get approval when it first sought a U.S. charter, and the company is quickly back with what it said would be a narrower effort.
Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer
Alibaba’s Qwen team is teasing its next architecture a day early—and the specs say it runs near-frontier scale on a fraction of the power.
Stop Asking AI to Write the PRD
Ask an LLM to write a PRD and it will often produce a beautiful lie. The headings are right. The tone sounds professional. User stories appear in a tidy list. Edge cases have names. The document feels complete because language models are exceptionally good at completing document-shaped patterns. Then engineering asks where the refund limit … Read more
These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter
A smaller, cheaper AI usually means a dumber one. A new technique flipped that—and your phone might be the winner.
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption
What starts as a roguelite deckbuilder builds into something far more ambitious. | Image: Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash … Read more
FlowX.AI Brings Mission-Critical Industry AI Agents to Gemini Enterprise
Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an option. FlowX.AI today announced that specialized FlowX.AI agents are available through Google Cloud Marketplace and as part of Gemini Enterprise, … Read more
World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network
USD1 is the sixth-largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization of more than $4 billion, according to industry data.
The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster
CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a “reimagined” skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two … Read more
HireQuotient Delivers 70% Reduction in Manual Recruiting Effort for NYC’s Alliance Building Services
San Francisco, United States, August 25th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–HireQuotient, which recently announced its strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) and its induction into their elite partner marketplace, delivers another strong return on investment (ROI) for one of the largest building and facility services providers in the New York City. Willow Marcon, SVP of Human Resources at Alliance … Read more
Bitcoin Open Interest Collapses to 12%. Is the Short Squeeze Over?
Crypto-margined Bitcoin futures have collapsed from near-total dominance to about 12%. But leveraged traders are still placing big bets.
150 Blog Posts To Learn About No Code
Let’s learn about No Code via these 150 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. No-code development platforms allow users to create applications entirely without writing code, typically through drag-and-drop interfaces. It matters by empowering … Read more
What’s the Deal With Nancy Pelosi and the Bloom Energy Stock Surge?
Pelosi disclosed millions of dollars in Bloom Energy investments weeks after shares and options were purchased through her husband’s accounts, including a purchase just before the company reported record earnings.
South Korea trade giant POSCO brings trade receivables to Avalanche in latest tokenization move
The $22 billion trading company worked with Olea and Intain on the transaction, following an Injective pilot with LG CNS last month.
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut. Instagram says the process can produce … Read more
Crypto Market Flips From Fear to ‘Extreme Greed’ for First Time Since 2024
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was at 36, firmly in the fear zone, just a month ago.
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company’s new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps
Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The part that still takes time is verification. You read the agent’s text summary, open your observability tools in a browser, navigate to the trace waterfall, check the service map to scope impact, and cross-reference what … Read more
Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead
The Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the … Read more