Business
Gold Retreats After Briefly Clearing $4,700
Gold futures retreated below $4,700 after an early advance on August 26, as investors weighed a Treasury buyback decision against fresh US inflation data and the outlook for interest rates.
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AI
AI Pact Puts Data Centres and Safety on the Ballot
A new candidate pledge links the local costs of data-centre construction to a broader agenda for binding AI oversight, worker protections and corporate accountability.
Science
Experiment Puts Feynman’s Path Integral to the Test
A reported experiment reconstructs a photon's quantum evolution from more than 1.4 million path contributions, offering an unusually direct operational test of Feynman's path-integral framework.
Business
Mortgage Rates Slip as Borrowers Weigh Refinance Costs
Mortgage and refinance rate averages moved lower for several major loan types on August 26, but the changes underline why borrowers should compare complete loan offers rather than act on a headline alone.
Hardware
AWS and NVIDIA Plan Two Million More GPUs
AWS and NVIDIA have announced plans to add two million more NVIDIA GPUs to AWS infrastructure during 2027 and 2028, extending a partnership that now reaches from chips and networking to public-sector systems and robotics.
AI
AI Slop Is Eroding Trust in Animal Content
The spread of synthetic animal videos is turning a once dependable source of online empathy into a harder-to-verify and more easily exploited attention market.
Science
Lunar South Pole May Preserve Earth Microbes
A new analysis suggests that cold, shaded terrain at the Moon’s south pole could preserve some Earth microbes in a dormant state, complicating efforts to keep future lunar science free from biological contamination.
Gaming
Rockstar Calls GTA VI Leaks Heartbreaking
Rockstar Games has described the circulation of unauthorised Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay clips as “heartbreaking”, shifting attention from the footage itself to the risks of spoilers and the studio’s planned official reveal.
Hardware
NVIDIA NVHBM Targets Faster, More Efficient AI Memory
NVIDIA’s NVHBM proposal shifts memory-control circuitry into the HBM stack, aiming to give custom AI accelerators more bandwidth, usable silicon area and power headroom than standard HBM4E designs.
Society
Meta Settlement Reshapes Teen Safety Rules in the US
Settlement discussions reported during Meta’s teen-addiction trial have culminated in a proposed multistate agreement that combines major payments with binding changes to Facebook and Instagram for young users.
Security
Google’s Spirit Data Deal Raises Worker Privacy Questions
Google’s proposed $10 million purchase of deidentified Spirit Airlines data has become a test of whether privacy safeguards designed for consumers can adequately protect workers’ confidential records.
Gaming
The Witcher 3 Remastered and Songs of the Past Revealed
CD PROJEKT RED will release a free current-generation remaster of The Witcher 3 in September 2026, followed by the paid Songs of the Past expansion in 2027.