Month: August 2026
Solana Proposal Would Increase Daily SOL Burns More Than 10-Fold
Validators are considering changes that would increase the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation while reducing the rate of new token issuance.
Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock for foundation model grounding
When a foundation model needs to answer a question about last week’s earnings call, yesterday’s regulatory change, or this morning’s weather forecast, it needs knowledge it was never trained on. Grounding the model in current web knowledge closes that gap – whether it’s powering chatbots, coding assistants, CLI tools, or enterprise applications, grounding helps answer … Read more
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
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Open USD rattled Circle’s stock, but its key backers still support USDC
Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard said they plan to support multiple stablecoins, suggesting Open USD is another payments rail rather than a direct replacement for USDC.
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It’s a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast … Read more
Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS is down to its lowest price ever
Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Memory and storage prices will be inflated for the foreseeable future, so we’re always happy to find a good deal on capable gaming hardware, like this discount on the Lenovo Legion Go S with a Z2 Go processor and SteamOS. Normally … Read more
‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as “not healthy,” but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of … Read more
Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone
Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company’s bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.
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BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is villain behavior
With great power comes great responsibility… to not justify ads in the name of movie promotions. | Image: BMW / Sony Pictures When a premium car brand like BMW says it has a “special surprise” in store for drivers, I’d expect something more luxurious than having a movie commercial beamed onto the dashboard. That’s exactly … Read more
Alibaba Just Gave Away Its Best AI Model For Free, Almost Matching Claude and ChatGPT
The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week. Alibaba’s own scorecard says the Americans still win on code.
Samsung is poised to become a dominant stablecoin distributor, analysts say
Samsung seeks to turn 800 million Galaxy phones into wallets for digital assets and blockchain payments, backed by a deeper play in crypto infrastructure.
BNY to offer institutional crypto staking through Galaxy partnership
The custody giant is expanding beyond safekeeping by adding staking services, allowing eligible institutional clients to earn yield on proof-of-stake assets.
TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app
Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.
Hashdex to Shut Down Bitcoin ETF After Struggling to Gain Assets
The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.
Bitcoin coils at $64K as Hormuz reopening timeline sends S&P 500 to $70T record
Bitcoin built on $64,000 as hopes of the Strait of Hormuz reopening to oil traffic sent the S&P 500 index to a record $70 trillion market cap.
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.
Clarity Act sits idle over Trump ethics question as Warren asks SEC to investigate him
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe Trump’s memecoin.
T-Mobile’s $0-down financing plan bundles taxes and fees
T-Mobile is launching a new financing option that will allow you to pay for a device, taxes, and fees over 36 months. In an update on Tuesday, T-Mobile says its new Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) Flex 36 requires no upfront payment and will come with a 0 percent APR for a limited time. Even if … Read more
Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Extracting insights from dozens of websites often means manually checking each one, a process that quickly becomes overwhelming. Design teams need to track competitor products, marketing teams want to monitor content trends, and product managers need to stay on top of market intelligence. But doing this manually means someone has to visit sites, copy content, … Read more
Bitdeer expands AI infrastructure with long-term $4.7B data center lease
A 16-year agreement secures 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity in Norway, highlighting how crypto mining companies continue to pursue new revenue streams beyond Bitcoin.
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
Wells Fargo joins JPMorgan and Citi in the race to tokenize Wall Street’s settlement rails
Payments will run on the bank’s proprietary blockchain and be routed automatically through its existing client interface.
Why Go 1.24 Replaced Its Map Engine With a Swiss Table Design
Go 1.24 introduces a transformative redesign of its map implementation, shifting from the traditional bucket + overflow-chain model to a Swiss Table-inspired design. This transition addresses long-standing inefficiencies in cache locality and memory usage, which have historically limited Go’s scalability in memory-intensive applications. The old model, while functional, suffered from pointer-chasing—a mechanical process where the … Read more
Samsung’s HDR10 Plus Advanced is launching this month on Prime Video
After previewing HDR10 Plus Advanced late last year, Samsung’s not-Dolby Vision 2 spec will launch globally on Amazon’s Prime Video this month. The first TVs announced with support are Samsung’s 2026 lineup, which will be able to make use of the extra metadata to deliver more precise HDR that is optimized for what you’re watching, … Read more