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Robotics is no longer simply another technology market.

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How Whatnot’s founders turned 100 investor rejections into an $20 billion live-shopping rocket ship
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Samsung has dominated the US foldable market, but Google and Apple plan to introduce foldable products of their own.

By Bloomberg and Chris WelchAugust 7, 2026
Meta hit with half-billion fine, compared by judge to polluting factory. Its stock fell half a percent

The total amount Meta is responsible for — $942 million — is a small fraction of of its annual profit, which was about $60 billion in 2025.

By Barbara Ortutay, Wufei Yu and The Associated PressAugust 7, 2026
Meta becomes third major AI lab after Anthropic and OpenAI to admit its agents have gone rogue—one day after Muse Code launch

Meta launched Muse Code to take on Anthropic and OpenAI—but the industry’s most advanced AI agents are breaking the limits of their digital confines

By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 6, 2026
‘Going rogue’: Is it time to stop talking about faulty AI frontier models as if they are people?  

We should take care not to allow our desire to attach human qualities to the non-human to mask the serious issue at hand—who is accountable when AI models go wrong? 

By Kamal AhmedAugust 7, 2026
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Czech billionaires play outsized role in European M&A market

Michal Strnad has cemented the Czech Republic a position in foreign investment through mergers and acquisitions, driving his local economy.

By Bloomberg, Michal Kubala and Peter LacaAugust 7, 2026
How SpaceX’s most-feared trading day turned into a 6% rally

“These are not people waiting to get their first dollar back,” a former SpaceX employee told Fortune. “We’ve had chances over the past 10 years.”

By Eva RoytburgAugust 7, 2026
In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion

The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot’s valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout at a moment when nearly every venture dollar is flowing to AI.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 7, 2026
AI’s new millionaires want to disrupt philanthropy. They should fund what already exists

To the next generation of tech philanthropists, please don’t conclude that the nonprofit sector needs rebuilding. Go look at what’s already there.

By Max Simkoff and Lisa Countryman-QuirozAugust 7, 2026
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The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions
The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions

The compute cost of investigating the incident is staggering, given details revealed in a talk the company delivered at a security conference this week.

By Emily ForliniAugust 7, 2026
Exclusive: Kalshi partners with Blanket to help small businesses hedge against risk—with help from the guru of ‘hypergamblification’

Lauris Zminsky says “a lot of young people are embracing lottery-ticket economics”—but his new project with Kalshi is totally separate from that.

By Nick LichtenbergAugust 7, 2026
The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity: The Hugging Face incident exposes the wrong AI security debate

A human insider threat unfolds over days or weeks; an agent can execute thousands of autonomous actions in an entirely different window of time.

By Shlomo KramerAugust 7, 2026
AI will get cheaper. Enterprise AI bills probably won’t

Enterprises can no longer assume that purchasing access to AI is equivalent to controlling its cost.

By Bryan MurphyAugust 7, 2026
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‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site

SpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space equipment say the science checks out—even if the timeline doesn’t.

By Amanda GerutAugust 6, 2026
Weight-loss drug Wegovy made Novo Nordisk Europe’s most valuable company. Finding its next blockbuster drug is proving difficult 

A clinical trial failure and U.S. competition have been tough for the Danish pharmaceutical firm. CFO Karsten Munk Knudsen says the company is doubling down on innovation and its weight loss pills as it looks toward its next stage of growth.

By Sam ForsdickAugust 6, 2026
Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups

Bridgit Mendler—a Harvard and MIT grad who cofounded Northwood in 2022—draws attention for her childhood as a Disney Channel star. But she’s chasing one of the most granular (and most vital) space economy problems.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 6, 2026
Qatar’s Ooredoo, Nvidia, and Nokia unveil multi-billion-dollar AI compute platform—and Southeast Asia is their target

In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the CEO of Qatar’s Ooredoo reveals why Southeast Asia represents the next big play in its transformation from traditional telco to leading digital infrastructure provider

By Melissa HancockAugust 6, 2026
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Major hedge funds targeted in wave of attempted cyberattacks

Cyber criminals attempted using voice phishing to mimic voices in phone calls to gain access to sensitive information at major hedge funds.

By Bloomberg, Hema Parmar, Katherine Burton and Sridhar NatarajanAugust 6, 2026
Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on water: default passwords

The FBI and EPA say attackers accessed internet-connected Rockwell Automation controllers and changed their IP addresses and passwords.

By William Akoto and The ConversationAugust 5, 2026
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman gave $5.5 million to protect the home of an internet-famous bald eagle named Jackie

As the internet-famous eagle fought for her life in intensive care, the Brockmans’ donation closed a $10 million fundraiser with days to spare.

By Sydney LakeAugust 4, 2026
Trump meets AI giants, Senate Dems decry ‘unpredictable’ governance—and cheap Chinese AI looms as giant security risk

While Democrats say the lack of clear rules will lead American firms to choose Chinese AI companies over domestic ones, experts say it’s the cost.

By Catherina GioinoAugust 4, 2026
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