Mark Cuban has a blunt message for the millions of Americans who own stakes in giant health insurers, even if they don’t realize it. Change your holdings or accept responsibility for runaway medical bills.
Developers poured billions into ambitious artificial intelligence infrastructure. Then local residents pushed back. Hard. In the opening months of 2026, opposition groups stalled or killed projects valued at roughly $130 billion. The figure matches the entire tally for 2025. And the resistance shows no signs of fading.
Google rolled out Search profiles in June 2026. The feature hands publishers and creators a dedicated page that surfaces their latest work directly in search results. It arrives at a moment when many outlets watch referral traffic slide because of AI-generated answers.
Google moved fast. Just three weeks after dropping Gemini 3.6 Flash, the company unveiled Gemini 3.7 Flash on Aug. 13. The new model sharpens focus on software engineering, multi-step agent workflows and knowledge-intensive tasks. And it comes with a temporary 50% price cut that drops input costs to $0.75 per million tokens and output to $3.75 through the end of 2026.
President Donald Trump has fired another shot in the trade war with Beijing. His administration just imposed sweeping tariffs on foreign drone imports. The move targets everything from hobbyist quadcopters to heavy military-grade systems.
Cloud storage promised convenience and scale. Yet one recent court battle shows how quickly that promise collapses when a vendor disappears.
Nine PBS, the public broadcaster in St. Louis, spent years entrusting more than 50 terabytes of irreplaceable material to a cloud provider called Open Source Storage. The archive held television programs, videos, photographs and other digital artifacts spanning seven decades of the city’s cultural record. Then in March the provider cut access without the promised 30-day window to retrieve anything. Sudden. Total. Unrecoverable.
Google just gave its latest smartwatch a feature that could save lives when the wearer cannot act. The Pixel Watch 5 introduces breathing emergency detection. The device monitors for severe drops in blood oxygen. If it senses trouble and the user stays unresponsive, it calls emergency services and shares location. The capability also reaches the prior-generation Pixel Watch 4 in select European markets right now.
Americans now carry $1.26 trillion in credit card debt. The figure comes from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, released this week. It sits just below the all-time high of $1.28 trillion hit late last year. Total household debt slipped slightly to $18.8 trillion. Yet revolving balances on plastic keep rising.
The Financial Times recently highlighted growing concerns over the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence systems that can generate convincing video footage from simple text prompts. These tools, once confined to research laboratories, now allow anyone with basic computer skills to create realistic moving images that can blur the line between fact and fiction. As adoption accelerates, questions about authenticity, trust, and potential misuse have moved from theoretical debates to immediate policy challenges.
A federal judge in California has signed off on a controversial settlement that lets Hewlett Packard Enterprise complete its $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks. The ruling ends months of courtroom drama. It also highlights deep rifts in how the government polices big tech combinations.
