August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Dhaka raises the price of the visit while the calendar squeezes both capitals
Bangladesh has tied a summit with India to Sheikh Hasina's extradition. Under the shadow of a water treaty running out, the instrument Dhaka is using is the one power of timing it still holds.
Household debt passed 2,000 trillion won, and part of the collateral is shares
Household credit in South Korea crossed 2,000 trillion won in a quarter when its growth was still slowing. The part worth watching is what stands behind the newest borrowing: alongside housing, shares bought on credit, in a market that fell hard last month and where short interest has climbed 14 per cent since.
How were 133 million chats searched after the fact?
A safety report says Anthropic's biology filters were off for nearly a year, and that roughly 133 million chats passed through unfiltered. The company's line about turning up no evidence of misuse is a measurement of how much a retrospective search could see, and the report gives neither that search's method nor its coverage.
Of the 368 plants that came online, 302 were solar or batteries
The Energy Information Administration list of completed plants is a smaller and harder number than any announcement pipeline, and for the first half of 2026 it reads solar and storage, with gas capacity still in the future tense.
Revenue rose 1.5 per cent, net profit more than doubled
At PC Partner Group the shortage lowered volumes and pushed prices higher, and the second half will show which of the two moves faster.
Simulation and experiment are looking at the same energies at last, and only there can checking begin
Four damage regimes turned up in the tungsten simulations. The more consequential part is this: the MeV recoils that irradiation experiments produce and full atomistic modelling now meet in the same range for the first time. For years the two lines of evidence looked at separate energies and could not check each other.
The dial that stores the state also sets the noise
KAIST's neuron earns its frequency selectivity from a variable the memristor was already holding for another purpose. That makes the mechanism easy to follow and leaves the interesting number unstated: how many settings the span from hertz to kilohertz actually costs.
What did the observers see, and who makes the declaration?
Four missions set out their findings in Lusaka on the same day and made the same appeal. Their instruments are reports and recommendations; the body that will declare the result is the Electoral Commission of Zambia.
Whose input will your work timeline become?
OpenAI's new feature turns what a person does during the day into a timeline the assistant can consult. A survey by Epoch AI and Ipsos shows that handing work over has become common while finishing it has not.
Whose wages rose when the immigrant workforce shrank?
Net migration fell from 2.7 million to an estimated 321,000, foreign-born unemployment dropped below native-born unemployment, and unemployment among native-born workers rose anyway. The wage gains the White House names sit in four sectors, while the New York Fed finds wage growth declining across most industries.