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August 26, 2026
U.S. economy grows at sluggish 1.5% pace in second quarter
GDP counts domestic production—meaning the surge in computer chip and AI investment shipments sliced 1.64 percentage points off.
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August 26, 2026
OpenAI, independent firms publish reports on rogue AI attack on Hugging Face. Here are the main takeaways—and what OpenAI still hasn’t disclosed.
OpenAI took a full week to discover the incident. 'Impossible' tasks may have motivated the AI models to cheat, the company says.
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August 26, 2026
Anthropic wants investors to believe its ‘total addressable market’ is worth $30 trillion—nearly the size of the entire US economy
The AI company is pitching investors on an addressable market roughly equal to U.S. GDP. It's as much marketing as math, analysts say.
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August 26, 2026
Meta’s $18 billion settlement leaves out the child protections New Mexico already won at trial, its Attorney General says
Raúl Torrez said New Mexico secured stronger protections against AI chatbots and predators than the national settlement. Child safety expert...
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August 26, 2026
How David Tisch’s BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules
David Tisch started off thinking he’d do just one startup deal. Years later, his firm BoxGroup is at the center of VC’s biggest acquisition...
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August 26, 2026
ChatGPT can now search years of your texts—but security experts are most worried about the people who never opted in
One person can give ChatGPT access to years of conversations without anyone else in those threads granting permission.
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August 26, 2026
A major German bank just let Claude and ChatGPT trade for customers. In one test, Claude beat human traders 76% of the time—but there’s a catch
Scalable Capital is rolling out an AI assistant program that lets users make trades, analyze portfolios, and set up savings plans with just...
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August 26, 2026
Exclusive: Struggling DraftKings awards $30 million marketing contract to cofounder who recently stepped down
Six weeks before leaving his post, Matthew Kalish signed agreements with his startup HardScope potentially worth millions.
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August 26, 2026
How Cigna’s AI chief is investing in the technology to cut costs and address some of healthcare’s biggest problems
Katya Andresen says AI can make healthcare more conversational, proactive, and personal for Cigna's 185 million customers.
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August 26, 2026
‘It’s very objective’: Billionaire Marc Lore’s Wonder uses an AI algorithm to determine who gets promoted
Lore has spent his career turning messy business problems into math. At Wonder, he’s now applying that instinct to employees’ careers.
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August 26, 2026
Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price
"The reality is that Social Security is not a savings program where workers’ payroll tax contributions are saved in an account and used to p...
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August 26, 2026
Meta’s $17 billion child-safety settlement is the biggest tech payout ever—or 3x what it paid to acquihire a 28-year-old AI superstar
Meta's settlement is roughly 27% of last year's profit and about 8% of annual revenue—a little more than three Alexandr Wang's.
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August 26, 2026
Dolly Parton once gave $1 million to help develop the Moderna COVID vaccine at Vanderbilt: ‘I’m kind of addicted to the feeling of giving’
Dolly Parton's philanthropic legacy extends far beyond entertainment. The legendary artist contributed significantly to medical research, in...
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August 26, 2026
The $40 trillion national debt and the bond market’s revolt: top Wall Street strategists explain how we got into this mess
David Kelly and Torsten Slok reached the same conclusion from opposite directions: with DC unwilling to touch the deficit, the bond market i...
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August 26, 2026
Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four years
The settlement is just 1.17% of Meta’s $1.46 trillion market cap.
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August 26, 2026
Pro-Russian group claims credit for biggest-ever hack on Norway government services after $9.2 billion pledge to Ukraine
Norway says its government digital services are facing the biggest cyberattack the responsible agency has ever experienced.
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August 26, 2026
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head: remaking our world for machine intelligence
The irony is that a world redesigned for machines may eventually allow us to recover something more purely human as we are relieved of utili...
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August 26, 2026
Dubai airport traffic plunged 31% as the Iran war sent travelers looking for routes outside the Middle East
One of the world’s busiest airports took a major hit from two months of disrupted flights, though its CEO says travelers are returning.
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August 26, 2026
Saudi brothers mint billion-dollar fortune from AI boom
MIS shares have surged 87% this year after its Humain data center project expanded fivefold to 250 megawatts and $2.34 billion
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August 26, 2026
Bill Gates wants to tax robots to deter businesses from replacing humans with machines
"The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines."
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August 26, 2026
Six months into the Iran war, Hormuz is still shut — and now Tehran wants military ships excluded
Iran says commercial vessels would follow designated routes through Iranian and Omani waters, but the proposed framework is not yet binding
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August 26, 2026
Intuit hits a record milestone of $20 billion in revenue—and sets the stage for a strategic pullback
CFO Sandeep Aujla calls it a “reset to reaccelerate”—Intuit is trading near-term revenue for a rebuilt customer-acquisition engine.
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August 26, 2026
New York metro area touts $3.5 billion impact from World Cup, silent on full costs from transit overruns and hosting FIFA
The final tally came after some naysayers derided the total spend from both New York and New Jersey, which put up an estimated $245 million.
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August 26, 2026
Dolly Parton changed the world—and she did it her way
The country music icon defined herself before anyone else could.
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August 26, 2026
Current price of silver as of Wednesday, August 26, 2026
If you’re worried about increased inflation, adding precious metals like silver to your portfolio can be a smart choice.
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August 26, 2026
Current price of oil as of August 26, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
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August 26, 2026
Alex Karp was right: you don’t own your data
Generative AI companies say you own your "Inputs" and "Outputs." Their legal agreements leave out who owns the reasoning tokens generated be...
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August 26, 2026
OpenAI’s new revenue chief has a simple mission: make the money match the hype
Rajic, 53, has earned a reputation as one of the most disciplined, successful enterprise sales leaders in tech.
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August 26, 2026
There’s a deal on the table to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Trump isn’t part of it—yet
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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August 26, 2026
What to watch for as Apple rolls out new Macs
Plus: China Shock, H1-B visas, Intuit, Kalshi, OpenAI, Skild AI, Waymo.
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August 26, 2026
Top CD rates today, Aug. 26, 2026: Lock in up to up to 4.50%
We’ve rounded up the highest available CD rates, many of which are above 4.00%.
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August 26, 2026
Today’s top high-yield savings rates: Up to 4.50% on Aug. 26, 2026
Find the highest savings account rates to grow your money.
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August 26, 2026
Mark Cuban wants companies to give their employees more stock. Could that narrow the divide between the bottom and the top?
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August 26, 2026
Why Dubai has become a city of retail traders
In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.
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August 26, 2026
Nike brought back a 32-year veteran to save the $60B brand. Two years later, its turnaround is still a ‘long, hard slog’
Elliott Hill is fixing Nike’s business. Making the brand cool again could be much harder.
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August 26, 2026
North Carolina teachers spend an average of $1,632 of their own money on school supplies—a foundation just gave $2M so they won’t have to
Exponential Scholars, a new North Carolina nonprofit founded by "quiet philanthropist" Holly May, funded more than 3,200 DonorsChoose projec...
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August 26, 2026
Bill Gates fears world leaders are unprepared for 3 major AI risks: ‘Stunted’ child development; emboldened criminals; and vanishing jobs for Gen Z
"I believe we need time to prepare for the period of social, political, and economic upheaval we are about to enter."
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August 26, 2026
Today’s home equity loan and HELOC rates, August 26, 2026
By staying on top of home equity loan and HELOC interest rates, you’ll recognize when it’s a good time to apply for these comparatively chea...
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August 26, 2026
Current ARM mortgage rates report for Aug. 26, 2026
See Wednesday’s report on average mortgage rates adjustable-rate mortgages so you can pick the best home loan for your needs as you house sh...
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August 26, 2026
Current refi mortgage rates report for Aug. 26, 2026
See Wednesday’s report on average refi rates on different types of home loans.
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August 26, 2026
Mortgage rates today, Aug. 26, 2026: Rates show very slight downward movement
See Wednesday’s report on average mortgage rates on different types of home loans so you can pick the best mortgage for your needs as you ho...
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August 26, 2026
Gen Z wants to be ‘tradwives.’ New data reveals the exact salary your spouse needs to earn—and in most states it’s under $100K
And for the average American family, one parent would need to be earning around $80,000 to sustain the other quitting their job to raise one...
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August 26, 2026
Deloitte puts the lunar economy at up to $566 billion by 2050—and SpaceX is speeding the timeline
The report, shared with Fortune ahead of its Wednesday release, says ripple effects could push the total above $1.1 trillion if water-ice ro...
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August 26, 2026
Instagram is like a digital cigarette and box of chocolates that ‘encourages gluttony.’ How do you fix that?
“The algorithms change the whole nature of it, and that’s where my chocolate metaphor went awry,” safety advocate Larry Magid told Fortune.
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August 26, 2026