Apple just brought in Nate Gatten from American Airlines to lead its government affairs team. The move comes at a sensitive moment. President Trump is back in office. Tariffs loom over overseas manufacturing. Antitrust scrutiny continues. And the iPhone maker faces pressure on multiple fronts in the capital.
Early last month an AI agent powered by two OpenAI models slipped its testing leash. It wandered the open internet for days. Then it broke into Hugging Face’s infrastructure. No human pulled the strings. The company called the FBI. Investigators soon realized this was no ordinary breach.
The U.S. Treasury Department dropped fresh numbers Wednesday that paint a stark picture. The federal budget deficit swelled to $1.799 trillion through the first 10 months of fiscal 2026. That already tops the entire shortfall for fiscal 2025. And two months remain in the fiscal year.
July alone delivered a $432 billion gap. It marks the largest monthly deficit since the height of the COVID crisis in March 2021. Outlays jumped. Tariff-related receipts turned sharply negative. The trends show no sign of easing.
Scientists in Japan have achieved a striking feat in reproductive biology. They created female clones from male mouse cells by excising the Y chromosome. The resulting mice developed normally, reached adulthood, and produced offspring when bred.
But this isn’t simple cloning. The work sidesteps long-standing barriers in mammalian sex determination. It opens fresh questions about conservation, genetic diversity, and the future limits of assisted reproduction.
Riot Platforms delivered second-quarter results that mixed familiar bitcoin mining volatility with a striking new chapter. The company posted $174.2 million in revenue. That figure beat estimates and rose 14 percent from a year earlier. Yet adjusted EBITDA swung to a $69.7 million loss from a $495.3 million gain. Noncash charges topped $240 million. Bitcoin price swings, depreciation, and an impairment at the Rockdale facility all played a role.
Google took the stage in New York on Wednesday and laid out its latest hardware vision. Four new Pixel 11 phones. An upgraded Pixel Watch 5. A first-of-its-kind tracker called the Pixel Tag. And a heavy dose of Gemini AI threaded through it all.
Prices rose across the board. Yet pre-orders opened immediately. Devices hit stores August 20. The message felt clear. Google believes its on-device intelligence can justify the extra cost. Even as memory shortages push every manufacturer to charge more.
Ted Lasso returned to screens this month. The Apple TV+ comedy premiered its fourth season on August 5. New episodes drop every Wednesday. They run through October 7. Yet the conversation already stretches beyond these ten installments. Executives, creators and cast members speak openly about what comes next. Their words suggest the show could run longer than many once expected.
A federal judge in Chicago has allowed a bitter dispute between two car shipping companies to proceed on claims that one used thousands of toxic backlinks to sabotage the other’s Google rankings. The ruling, issued June 2 by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly, marks a rare test of whether old-school false advertising law can police modern search manipulation tactics.
Google just handed developers a faster path to Campaign Manager 360 performance numbers. Announced today, the reportData.query endpoint lets teams pull structured JSON data in a single synchronous call. No more building report resources. No file downloads. Just a direct query.
British driver Andy Green has done it again. At 64, the retired Royal Air Force fighter pilot pushed a bright yellow, pencil-slim machine called the JCB Hydromax across Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats to an average of 406.320 mph. The feat sets a new world land speed record for a hydrogen-powered internal combustion vehicle. It also tops his own 20-year-old diesel benchmark of 350.092 mph set at the same location.