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Descartes Pays $100M for Tai—Freight Data Is Part of the Prize
Descartes acquired Tai Software on August 24 for approximately $100 million in cash, adding a freight-broker operating platform and its transaction, carrier and shipment data to its logistics network.
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Repodo Raises €8.2M—AI Does the Repetition, Auditors Keep the Liability
Repodo secured €8.2 million for a Denmark launch, with software handling repetitive audit processing while qualified auditors retain judgement, oversight and final sign-off.
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Elastic Buys Deductive AI—Customers Must Wait for the Roadmap
Elastic completed its purchase of Deductive AI on August 24, 2026, adding an AI incident-investigation engine. Existing customers remain supported, but the product roadmap is pending.
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Neno Raises €6.6M—Its AI Back Office Still Includes Human Accountants
Amsterdam-based Neno closed a €6.6 million seed round on August 25, 2026, to expand a financial back office that combines automated processing with in-house accountants.
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ISS Antenna Is Back Online After a 6½-Hour Spacewalk
Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon installed and activated a spare ISS antenna on August 25, restoring the station’s second high-speed communications path after a 6½-hour spacewalk.
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Earning Money Through Website Surfing: A Simple Way to Make Cryptocurrency
Many believe that earning cryptocurrency online requires special skills or expensive equipment. However, this is far from the truth. Website surfing, or browsing websites for rewards, is an accessible way to earn money or cryptocurrency with just a computer or smartphone and an internet connection.One of the easiest methods to generate income in the digital space is through website surfing. The tasks involved are so simple that virtually anyone can participate, regardless of experience or technical expertise.In this article, we’ll introduce you to a platform where you can start earning money and cryptocurrency through website surfing: Quasa Rewards.
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Quasa Projects: The PPC Advertising Platform Powering the New Crypto Economy
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NASA Adds DSS-23—One Dish Now Talks to Voyager and Chandra
NASA marked DSS-23’s completion on August 25, 2026. The new 34-meter Goldstone antenna is operational and has communicated with Chandra, Voyager 1 and several planetary missions.
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AgentCore Scores Any OpenTelemetry Agent—Framework Lock-In Shrinks
On August 26, AWS documented how AgentCore Evaluations scores agents across frameworks when compatible telemetry provides a reconstructable session.
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Stripe and Advent Drop PayPal Pursuit—the $53B Deal Never Closed
Stripe and Advent ended their reported $53 billion pursuit of PayPal by August 28, 2026. No acquisition closed, and none of the three companies has commented publicly.
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ChatGPT Improved Student Answers—but Causal Training Produced Rarer Ideas
On August 27, OpenAI and Bocconi published results from a 1,053-student trial: ChatGPT improved evaluated answers, while causal training produced more distinctive ideas.
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OpenAI Opens in Brazil—215M Daily Messages Explain the Bet
OpenAI launched commercial operations in Brazil on August 27, 2026, establishing a São Paulo team as company-reported ChatGPT use reaches about 215 million messages a day.
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An Internet-Reachable Siemens S7 PLC Is Now an Active-Risk Asset
An internet-reachable Siemens S7 PLC now warrants active-risk treatment: verify every access path, remove exposure, restrict engineering access, test updates offline and monitor passively.
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AWS Glue 6.0 Can Break Old Jobs—Check These Five Changes First
Move AWS Glue 5.1 jobs through a reversible staging lane before adopting 6.0. Test five compatibility boundaries, and keep shared Iceberg tables on v2 when Athena must read them.
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Tech & Innovation 
MCP OAuth Follows a Spec—Yet All 119 Tested Servers Had Flaws
A 2026 study found at least one OAuth flaw in all 119 testable remote MCP servers. This checklist maps the measured failures and current protocol controls to concrete audit tests.
Startups & Business 
OpenAI Opens in Brazil—Its Third-Largest ChatGPT Market Gets a Local Team
On August 27, OpenAI published its launch of Brazilian commercial operations, centered on a São Paulo team serving its third-largest ChatGPT market and coordinating local programs.
Future of Work 
Wipro Plans 1,500 Embedded AI Engineers Inside a 10,000-Person Push
On August 27, 2026, Wipro outlined a Google Cloud expansion covering more than 10,000 AI-certified specialists, including over 1,500 client-facing engineers.
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