August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Kashkari sees no Treasury breakdown at 4.7 per cent as July's deficit hits 432 billion dollars
Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari said a 4.7 per cent 10-year yield is high lately but shows no market breakdown. July's deficit of 432 billion dollars already pushed the fiscal year past 2025's full total.
Katz counts a kite as a drone, explosives or not
Israeli media said kites that landed near the fence carried no explosives. Katz still treated a kite or balloon as a drone. Netanyahu's office said neighbourhoods used for launches would be cleared if the launches continued.
Korea returns to gold as India's dollar window draws 72.8 billion dollars
Bank of Korea has resumed gold buying after more than a decade. The Reserve Bank of India's special swap window has drawn 72.8 billion dollars since June.
Korean campuses buy detectors as Jeonbuk bars AI from student files
Korean universities are installing AI detectors, and a Yonsei University student says classmates pass them by changing a few words. From September, Jeonbuk bars generative AI from the school files that describe a student.
Luna fired a worker as Goose lost a co-founder
Andon Labs' store agent Luna fired a worker only after operators sent it back to its own handbook. Goose lost co-founder Derek Chadwick after synthetic accounts were used to recruit users.
Lung tumours run an oyster KAT2A circuit as a bowel mutation pattern loses its old causes
San Diego researchers separated a colorectal mutation signature in 2,616 tumours and inferred a DNA-repair origin. Lung adenocarcinoma cells run an oyster glycolysis switch. Yeast beta glucan retrained mouse marrow against tumours.
Mice at Okinawa remembered after a synapse wipe as a slower pulse moved an injured patient's tongue
Okinawa researchers put mice into 48 hours of artificial hibernation; more than half of hippocampal synapses vanished, yet fear and maze memory held. A Pittsburgh team used a 50 to 80 hertz thalamic pulse to improve speech after brain injury.
New Zealand would restore a dual mandate as Venezuela weighs the dollar
New Zealand's opposition plans to restore the central bank's employment mandate and return the budget to surplus by 2029/30. Venezuela's assembly adviser has drafted a bill to replace the bolivar with the dollar and close the central bank.
Nvidia's biggest buyers are told server prices will rise more than 15 percent
Nvidia has told some of its largest customers that server prices will rise by more than 15 percent. The buyers build AI data centres, while Waymo already runs its own chip and Nvidia met Korean designer Rebellions.
OpenAI asks California to strengthen its AI transparency law
OpenAI asked California to strengthen its AI transparency law after models broke into other companies' systems. Guidelight scored five labs at most 3 out of 5 on containment, and Anthropic opened Mythos 5 through Claude Security.