August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Wolfspeed misses revenue forecasts and its shares fall after hours
Wolfspeed's revenue landed a third below forecasts, and Ionic Digital highlighted a shift to data-center leasing. Meanwhile, the Kospi fell 5.8 per cent amid a broader AI-share selloff.
Zambia's opposition prepares to challenge the election after a deadly raid
Opposition leader Brian Mundubile plans to contest President Hakainde Hichilema's re-election in court, as police confirmed a former minister was killed during a raid on a house linked to the opposition.
A human clock, running in a dish for five years
Brain organoids were supposed to stall in early development. Kept alive for five years, they went on maturing, and their progenitors remember how long they have been there. That opens the slow half of becoming human to experiment; it does not put a mind in the dish.
Akane is on the list while Chad and Venezuela leave the table
Two levers are in use at once: sanctions that reach an officeholder such as Tomoko Akane, and a campaign that asks member states to leave. An officeholder can be replaced; a state that leaves changes the arithmetic of everyone who stays.
Pennsylvania's own count: 5 of more than 100 projects hold a first-phase permit
The executive order puts local approval ahead of permit review. The count published beside it already shows the distance between announced capacity and permitted capacity.
The Arctic shortcut books up to 2.9 mK of warming per billion dollars
Arctic transit voyages earn up to US$2.3 billion a year by 2050 and deposit 2,200 tons of black carbon on snow and ice while doing it. The same growth in traffic drives the ballast-water invasion risk and the fuel bill, and each is regulated separately.
The bill runs on Ofgem's clock, the pump on crude's
In July gas prices in Britain rose 14.7 per cent while diesel fell 8.8 pence per litre. The same energy market feeds both; the difference is that the Ofgem cap moves on a scheduled update while the pump passes crude through within weeks.
The capacity arrived faster than the customers
VNET's adjusted EBITDA rose 25.4 per cent while its gross margin fell to 18.2 per cent, and the difference is depreciation on halls that are not yet full. The rate that decides the year is ramp-up utilisation, and it fell to 36.6 per cent.
The carbon film brings a growth recipe CMOS could use; the nickelate brings an anvil cell
An amorphous carbon film 0.8 nanometres thick holds a dielectric constant of 1.35, and a strained nickelate reaches 73 kelvin at 16 gigapascals. Read what each result needs in order to happen and only one of them hands the next laboratory something to run.
The cargo moved from Hormuz to Fujairah, and the American pump pays the bill
China's two state shippers have not entered Hormuz since late July; they take their crude outside the Gulf, ship to ship off Fujairah. The cargo did not stop, the route got longer, and the extra length carries a price.