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- Inditex Defies European Heatwaves As Zara Owner Looks For U.S. Growth
Zara owner Inditex kept its cool over the European summer heatwaves and is now looking to ignite U.S. sales following cautious expansion since first entering the market.
- AI writing is A-ok if you’re a billionaire. For everyone else, it can be a career-ending scandal
We have to confront the uneven standard that society imposes on AI use: acceptable for Stanley Druckenmiller but an embarrassing scandal for others.
- Alibaba President: AI agents can talk, but can they actually do the work?
The strongest frontier model we tested successfully completed 61.7% of the tasks — high enough to be useful and low enough to be a warning.
- Yankees Trade Castoff Sent Back To Minors After Very Short Stint
The New York Yankees have gotten a harsh update on their former eight-year MLB veteran catcher after a late-season trade.
- Insilico’s co-CEO hopes ‘we might have a chance to stop biological aging’ after promising results from its fibrosis drug trial
Drugmakers hope they can ease Asia's healthcare burden by tackling aging at its source, and one says it now has early evidence it's possible.
Technology
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
- Batteries just broke another record in the US
Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report. That’s enough to supply the daily electricity needs of about 700,000 homes. The surge is putting the country on a trajectory to see 71 gigawatt-hours of…
- Understanding the thermal ceiling in portable power
Plug a phone into a modern charger and the first 10 minutes are impressive. The next 20 are not. This is not a defect. It’s the connected device protecting itself. As temperature rises during charging, a smartphone’s battery management system reduces the current it will accept, because heat accelerates the chemical degradation that permanently reduces…
- What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
- LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”
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