The European Central Bank’s July 2026 Consumer Expectations Survey shows a slight decline in inflation expectations across short and medium terms, with persistent uncertainty and income disparities in perceptions.
Amazon SES now allows senders to override open and click tracking settings directly in SendEmail and SendBulkEmail API calls, simplifying consent management without additional configuration sets.
Vercel introduced Deployment Storage to retain deployment files for inspection and rollback without rebuilding. Teams retain current pricing while setting custom retention policies for different deployment types.
Europe experienced five record-breaking heat waves in 2026, with temperatures exceeding 40°C, causing widespread disruptions, health crises, and infrastructure damage across the region.
A guide outlines 14 low-cost advertising strategies for small businesses, emphasizing free tools like Google Business Profiles and targeted social media campaigns over expensive paid ads.
Zapier outlines five alternatives to Pipedream, a code-first automation platform acquired by Workday in 2026, highlighting workflow builders and embedded SDKs for developers and non-technical users.
Zapier releases a 2026 guide to small-business automation tools, highlighting six niche apps plus its own platform to connect them without costly contracts or long implementations.
Google has introduced Gemini Gems, customizable versions of its AI chatbot designed to retain specific instructions and knowledge for repeated use across web and mobile apps.
Vercel’s v0 now supports secure connections to over 100 third-party services via Vercel Connect, enabling apps to integrate with platforms like Slack, Google, and GitHub without manual setup or long-term credential...
Hugging Face details how Papers with Code uses Jobs, Buckets, and Inference Endpoints to power hybrid search combining keyword and vector retrieval for AI research papers.
Hugging Face research reveals widespread benchmark optimization in speech recognition models, where systems reproduce incorrect reference transcripts to match test expectations rather than accurately transcribing audio.
Vercel has introduced always-on tracing for production and preview traffic, enabling real-time debugging without reproducing requests. The feature samples live traffic based on user-defined rules, with pricing at $0.50...
Vercel’s AI Gateway now offers DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental, enabling multimodal inputs with images and text for tasks like image description, text extraction, and chart analysis.
OpenAI reduced GPT-5.6 Sol pricing by 20% for input and a third for output, with a 50% AI Gateway discount applied through September 18. The model ID remains unchanged, so existing requests automatically reflect the new...
OpenAI reduced GPT-5.6 Sol pricing by 20% for input tokens and 33% for output tokens, effective immediately. Vercel’s AI Gateway continues offering a 50% discount on the new list price through September 18, 2025.
Databricks has expanded Inbound Private Link to support account-level resources, custom URLs, and disaster recovery endpoints in Beta on AWS and Azure, reducing endpoint management overhead.
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada, offering low-latency cloud services for compute, storage, and networking to support applications requiring single-digit millisecond response times.
AEO audit tools assess whether brands appear in AI-driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, measuring citation accuracy and visibility gaps beyond traditional SEO.
A CRM RFP aligns stakeholder needs before vendor selection, replacing subjective pitches with structured, measurable requirements to avoid costly misalignment in enterprise software procurement.
AWS has expanded availability of EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances featuring Graviton4 processors and high-speed local storage to additional regions, targeting compute, balanced, and memory-intensive workloads.
Arm argues agentic AI’s success depends on system-level coordination rather than model or processor improvements alone, shifting focus to orchestration, heterogeneous compute, and open ecosystems.
The Federal Reserve approved National Westminster Bank Plc’s application to open a representative office in Stamford, Connecticut, marking its first U.S. presence in this location.
Databricks demonstrates how legacy SQL stored procedures, including cursors and transactions, can migrate to its lakehouse with minimal changes, preserving business logic and reducing migration time by up to 75%.
ASUS unveiled the ExpertBook P3 G2 business laptop series on August 20, 2026, featuring Intel Core 7 Series 3 processors, long battery life, and military-grade durability in 14-inch and 16-inch models.
GitHub reported a 7-hour, 47-minute outage on August 17 affecting core services including authentication, Actions, APIs, and Copilot, following a similar incident on August 6. The company attributed both failures to...
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, expanding high-performance GPU computing options for AI workloads.
Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points, allowing customers to restrict access to designated CloudFront distributions without custom Lambda@Edge functions.
Amazon EKS now offers automated certificate authority (CA) rotation with lifecycle management to maintain secure cluster operations as original CAs near expiration.
NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration conducted a workshop at Ohmsett to simulate oil spill dispersant use, training responders to evaluate trade-offs in protecting marine ecosystems during real-world incidents.
Red Bull principal Laurent Mekies confirmed Max Verstappen’s contract extension through 2030, framing it as a statement of trust and a foundation for rebuilding the team’s competitiveness after a difficult start to the...