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Current price of Ethereum for August 19, 2026

Ethereum isn’t just digital money; it’s a decentralized computing platform, meaning users can build and run apps on it without oversight of a company or bank.

By Joseph HostetlerAugust 19, 2026
One of the VC world’s biggest stars is doubling down on sports in a big way, and there’s a compelling tax reason behind the strategy
One of the VC world’s biggest stars is doubling down on sports in a big way, and there’s a compelling tax reason behind the strategy
By Jason MaAugust 19, 2026
How the UAE has emerged as a ‘leading light’ for tokenization  
How the UAE has emerged as a ‘leading light’ for tokenization  
By Melissa HancockAugust 19, 2026
Nelson Peltz might take Wendy’s private following six straight quarterly sales declines as customers flee its poor franchise models and bad marketing
Nelson Peltz might take Wendy’s private following six straight quarterly sales declines as customers flee its poor franchise models and bad marketing
By Tatiana SatauaAugust 19, 2026
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OpenAI hits pause on training in Hugging Face aftermath
By Lily Mae LazarusAugust 19, 2026
Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips
Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips
By Catherina GioinoAugust 19, 2026
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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

“Our message is not that we’re coming after jobs,” Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. “That’s just not correct.”

By Nick LichtenbergAugust 18, 2026
Meet the venture capital and crypto billionaires quietly bankrolling the fight against California’s wealth tax

Campaign finance records show at least four billionaires quietly funding the opposition—and the fight is only growing stronger

By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 18, 2026
Reed Hastings says he learned why companies aren’t families after laying off one-third of Netflix: ‘You would never lay off two of your kids’

Elite companies can’t operate like families, according to Netflix’s Reed Hastings—a mindset that helped turn it into a $315 billion entertainment giant.

By Preston ForeAugust 18, 2026
OpenAI data center deal with Nvidia comes in $145 billion lower than reported—signaling concerns of artificial demand for chips

Circular financing concerns revolve around the chip-maker’s investment into OpenAI’s data center lease.

By Joshua HongAugust 18, 2026
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Inside the $8 billion cybersecurity acquisition that rescued ServiceNow from the ‘Saaspocalypse’

The deal for Yevgeny Dibrov’s Armis was Israel’s second-largest tech startup exit ever.

By Lily Mae LazarusAugust 19, 2026
AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal

The SEC accuses a Long Island firm of running a $74 million boiler room that sold retirees marked-up shares in Anduril, Anthropic, Perplexity, and SpaceX.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 18, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz focus of DOJ probe over board directors

Andreessen Horowitz has closely aligned itself with the second Trump administration.

By Josh Sisco, Natasha Mascarenhas and BloombergAugust 17, 2026
A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he’s a billionaire who says the American Dream isn’t dead

Billionaire Palmer Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion by 21 years old—and says that kind of break “isn’t happening in China.”

By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 18, 2026
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Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear isn’t thinking machines—it’s that AI exposes who already knows how to think

Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan says his students are “in a bind.” How much should they use AI versus resist it to build up their own skills?

By Nick LichtenbergAugust 19, 2026
David Sacks says Anthropic’s Dario Amodei wants a ‘DMV for AI.’ But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation

Amodei took to social media to defend his approach to regulation and his discussion of AI risks following criticism from investor Gavin Baker.

By Jeremy KahnAugust 18, 2026
Meet OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens, which doesn’t talk about sex or suicide and gives you homework help instead

OpenAI doesn’t verify users’ ages, but it already uses age assurance to estimate if someone is under 18 based on factors such as their types of queries.

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated PressAugust 18, 2026
OpenAI says it paused AI training for two weeks and announces new security protocols following Hugging Face hack

The AI company says its unreleased Astra model presents a “critical” cybersecurity risk and it has put its largest training runs on hold while it tests new safety procedures.

By Emily ForliniAugust 18, 2026
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AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems
AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems

Last year, Japan began a push to reboot its innovation engine with a plan to channel $2.3 trillion in investments to 17 strategic sectors by 2040.

By Angelica AngAugust 18, 2026
Unitree vs. Shein: How August’s big China IPOs show how AI hype is leaving e-commerce giants behind

Unitree may be smaller and younger compared to Shein. But in the eyes of investors, the robot maker is the more exciting bet.

By Nicholas GordonAugust 17, 2026
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030

“We’ll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 17, 2026
Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning

Wispr has raised $280 million in its Menlo Ventures-led Series B, as it looks beyond dictation.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 17, 2026
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Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%
Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%

Ninety-nine proposed gas plants to power AI data centers could lift emissions by up to a third, with Amazon and Microsoft among the developers

By Matt Day, Mark Chediak and BloombergAugust 18, 2026
Meta heads to child safety trial facing financial damages as large as $1.4 trillion

Four states want penalties that approach Meta’s market value, but the lasting threat is a court-ordered overhaul of Facebook and Instagram for young users.

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated PressAugust 17, 2026
Jimmy Wales: ‘AI can generate answers. It still can’t earn trust’

The leadership lesson of Wikipedia.

By Ioanna ThomaAugust 16, 2026
Tether has the gold. Now, CEO Paolo Ardoino is making a bold push into AI

A KPMG audit appears to establish the legitimacy of Tether’s reserves. Meanwhile, the company’s ambitions are scaling far beyond crypto.

By Jeff John RobertsAugust 17, 2026
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    A Gen Xer sold his company for $1.6 billion. He kept less than $100 million and gave the rest away because he doesn’t ‘believe in billionaires’
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A Chinese firm has begun manufacturing chipmaking machines, putting ASML and the world on notice
By Andrew NuscaJuly 28, 2026
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    By Eva RoytburgJuly 26, 2026
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Advanced AI models are showing signs of laziness. That’s a problem for companies betting big on autonomous agents.
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OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850
By Emily ForliniJuly 27, 2026
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Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it
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A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’
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Elon Musk’s vision of a post-money future got mocked. Vinod Khosla warns it could become a dystopia instead
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A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot showed up in Google search results
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The war between competing AI models could end up more like Apple vs. Android than VHS vs. Betamax
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Trip.com struck with $765 million penalty from China over monopoly allegations
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Meet the American techies who don’t care where ‘good enough’ AI models come from, even China
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Amazon and Microsoft walk an investor tightrope
By Andrew NuscaJuly 27, 2026
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CEO of the top-rated hiring platform says the job market is so bad that candidates are paying $20 to mass apply and driving bosses crazy with spam
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McKinsey: Global households got $40 trillion richer in 2025 as the paper wealth economy swelled to $1.8 quadrillion
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China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost
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Big Tech earnings slam into a market in revolt over AI spending
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James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup
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