Pins matching date:2026-08-26

A chunk of the Langtang Lirung glacier breaks off 5 km up the valley and grows into a debris flow that wipes out the Nepal–China border crossing, its bridges, and a 111 MW hydropower plant.

Pictures released on 26 August 2026 show two Blackbeard hypersonic test articles under the wing of an F/A-18E/F, as Castelion works to deliver at least 50 missiles to the Navy by August 2028 for under $500,000 each.

Li Auto reported a second-quarter 2026 net loss of RMB 1.7 billion on revenue of RMB 25.7 billion, down 15.1% year on year, with gross margin of 11.0% and third-quarter delivery guidance of 95,000-100,000 vehicles.

Vermaland's La Osa data center and energy campus south of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona, was announced in 2025 at 3,000 MW and 33B USD, cut in May 2026 to 11 buildings and 1,000 MW, and rejected 4-1 by the Pinal County Board of Supervisors on 26 August 2026.

The Fed's main inflation gauge rose 0.2% in July and 3.7% from a year earlier, while core PCE, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2% and 3.3%.

Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills, and made Claude the default model for Slack and Slackbot.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.

Solo-dining katsu counter with partitioned seats and QR ordering, from the former owners of Fat Cheeks and Little G's.

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter (18B active) natively multimodal open-weight model on a newly trained base that it says beats GLM-5.2 at one-tenth of the price, listed at $0.15 per million input tokens.

GDACS, the UN and European Commission disaster alert system, rated flooding in Nepal at its red level, tracking it from 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-01. The flood extent drawn on the map is GDACS's affected-area polygon, built from the Copernicus GloFAS river-flow forecast and satellite water detection; it shows where water was detected or forecast, not damage or casualties. GDACS listed the event as ended.

Salesforce's fiscal second quarter brought $11.3 billion of revenue, up 11%, GAAP EPS of $4.29 lifted by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic stake, a higher full-year outlook and the stock's second-best day ever.

NVIDIA's revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to a record $96.2 billion for the quarter ended 26 July 2026, with Data Center at $89.0 billion, and it guided the third quarter to $108 billion.