August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Nvidia puts a 30-fold per-megawatt claim at the centre of its inference push
Nvidia claims up to 30 times more work per megawatt for Vera Rubin, Cerebras speeds up the same chip, and Groq 3 LPX enters production with Nebius.
Oura's sleep inferences reach court as Flock's camera access reaches Congress
A class action is testing how Oura presents inferred sleep stages, while Flock has shortened retention and begun requiring case codes after 46 documented cases of unauthorised camera use.
Perseverance timed Phobos as TESS caught a triple-dip eclipse and a Hubble stream weighed dark matter
Perseverance timed another Phobos transit, TESS caught a rare triple-dip eclipse in TIC 433545934, and a Hubble stellar stream around UGC 9050-Dw1 weighed that galaxy's dark matter.
Petermann, the monsoon and Antarctic soil record change at three scales
Satellite imagery recorded a major Greenland calving as two studies linked the South Asian monsoon to both hemispheres and Antarctic microbes to shared energy genes.
Piero Cipollone warns against hiking into a supply shock as France holds a 5 per cent deficit
Piero Cipollone said rate rises after a supply shock could dampen growth. France is trying to keep its deficit near 5 per cent, while Singapore core inflation reached 2 per cent after electricity tariffs rose.
Political channels, chip exports and election order emerge in three developments
A lawmakers' visit, an indictment over server exports and the result of a new single-chamber election put political contact and technology controls into focus through three developments.
Pressure on Iran widens through oil, Hormuz and diplomatic reprisals
Washington's new sanctions package aimed at financial links to Iranian oil, talks over transit arrangements at Hormuz and reciprocal expulsions with France moved through different channels on the same day.
Roman and Meteosat advance to launch as Chang'e-7 misses its window
Roman and MTG-I2 entered final preparations in the same week, while China's Chang'e-7 lunar south-pole mission was postponed over unspecified launch conditions.
Saturday's ocean hit 21.1 degrees on the Copernicus scale as a plant raft cut methane
Copernicus put Saturday's global sea surface temperature at 21.1 degrees Celsius, above the 21.09 degrees high of 2024. A Phillip Island plant raft cut lagoon methane, while plowed grasslands fill with a different kind of plant.
Shein seeks capital through a loss as SGX lowers the entry threshold
Shein and Alibaba are selling new shares in Hong Kong while SGX cuts lots to 10 units. Asian markets are courting capital as investors weigh the gap between price and return.