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Economy / Markets
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh takes the podium at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium in Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, on Friday morning for his first keynote as chair.
Sources Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityRegards of Wallstreet
AI
Salesforce reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $11.35 billion after the bell on Wednesday, up 11% year-on-year, with adjusted EPS of $5.90 beating the $3.27 consensus.
Football
The 64th Bundesliga season opens on Friday at 18:30 UTC when defending champions Bayern Munich welcome VfB Stuttgart to the Allianz Arena in a repeat of the 2025/26 DFB-Pokal final, which Bayern won 3-0.
Sources WikipediaBundesliga.com
AI
Microsoft's release notes for 11–25 August confirm that Anthropic's Claude models are now available natively inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Researcher, Copilot Studio and Excel's AI Agent Mode, letting paying users pick Claude as the engine for routine enterprise work.
Sources Microsoft Learn
Economy / Markets
New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose 1.1% in July to $339.3 billion, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday, well above the 0.5% consensus. Transportation equipment led the gain with a 2.3% rise as nondefense aircraft and parts surged 12.7% after a 51.1% May plunge, while orders excluding transportation climbed 0.4% and the closely watched nondefense capital goods ex-aircraft proxy edged up 0.2% to $85.9 billion.
Sources RTTNewsU.S. Census Bureau
AI
The Qwen team at Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 27 August, a 125-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates roughly 6B parameters per token and is described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture.
Sources AI News Briefs Bulletin Board
AI
Menlo Park-based AccuKnox unveiled AgentZ on Wednesday as a platform for building, running and governing AI agents across teams and workflows. The hosted platform and its open-source repository bundle agents, execution environments, tools, permissions and audit logs into a single stack, with sandboxed execution and tool-level permissions designed to make agent rollouts auditable rather than experimental.
Sources TechStartups
Football
The 36-team league phase draw for the 2026/27 UEFA Champions League took place in Monaco on Thursday, setting Manchester City against holders Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona, Arsenal against Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and returning Manchester United with home ties against Bayern, Roma, RB Leipzig and Sabah.
Sources The GuardianBBC Sport
Technology
Apple is widely expected to hold its annual fall event at 10:00 a.m. Pacific on 9 September at the Steve Jobs Theater, with invitations expected to land on 26 August.
Sources Digital TrendsMacRumors
AI
Anthropic is expected to close a new funding round as soon as next week with commitments exceeding $30 billion at a post-money valuation above $900 billion, according to a Bloomberg report.
Sources Yahoo Finance
Football
Crystal Palace welcome Manchester City to Selhurst Park on Friday at 19:00 UTC in a Premier League matchweek 2 fixture, with the Athletic's preview tabbing City eighth in the table after one match and Palace sixteenth.
Sources ESPN
Technology
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation released Kubernetes 1.37, codenamed Garhwal, with 67 enhancements across stable, beta and alpha maturity. Headline changes include the metrics.k8s.io API graduating to general availability after nearly nine years in beta, KYAML output for kubectl reaching stable, and dynamic resource allocation gaining device taints, tolerations and a NUMA-aware attribute so schedulers can place GPU and accelerator workloads without bespoke device plugins.
Sources Wikipedia
Economy / Markets
Asian and European equities traded cautiously on Friday morning with currency and bond markets holding their breath for Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chair.
Technology
Red Hat's Friday Five notes that AWS InspectorScan API and ECR Basic scanning now support Red Hat Hardened Images, giving container security teams vulnerability alerts and supply-chain verification against the same images they already pull.
Sources Red Hat
Technology
CNCF published a primer for IT generalists moving off VMware, arguing that Kubernetes is best learned through five pieces of scaffolding — desired state and reconciliation, the disposable machine, the four networking layers, storage as a plugin, and policy as a later choice — instead of trying to absorb the whole API surface at once.
Sources CNCF Blog