UPDATED AUGUST 20, 2026 · 1147 STORIES ON THE WIRE

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01WORLD

Trump warns Iran of 'Economic D-Day' and threatens 'tremendous' consequences for its backers

Economic sanctions are the financial equivalent of a siege: a government cuts off a target country's access to trade, banking, and global markets

AUGUST 20, 20261 MIN

02HEALTH

Health systems deploy AI chatbots to search and summarize patient records

Hospitals and health systems are deploying chatbots powered by large language models to search and summarize patient medical records, a technology shift driven by how bloated those records have become. A large language model is software…

AUGUST 20, 20262 MIN

03WORLD

Federal prosecutors cite Comey's own novel to keep Trump threat case alive

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to keep a criminal case alive over a social media post by James Comey that displayed seashells arranged to spell "86 47." The number 47 refers to Donald Trump's position in the presidential sequence…

AUGUST 20, 20262 MIN

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04WORLD

Unusual call buying follows Trump's Hyperliquid regulation hint

A burst of call-option purchases followed President Donald Trump's public suggestion that Hyperliquid may be headed toward formal regulation. Call options are contracts that give the holder the right to buy an asset at a fixed price before…

AUGUST 20, 20261 MIN

05MARKETS

Three Temasek India bets each jump more than 30% after listings this week

A contrarian bet is a position placed against the prevailing market view on an asset, held until that view shifts. Singapore's state investor Temasek made those calls on three companies in India. This week, each of them jumped more than…

AUGUST 20, 20261 MIN

06TECH

Race shadowed the Jason Arday inquiry from the beginning

Investigations into Jason Arday came with something attached from their earliest stage: a cloud of excessive references to his race. Excessive, in this context, means disproportionate and present before many of the underlying facts were…

AUGUST 20, 20261 MIN

07CRYPTO

AI agents could make crypto's billion-dollar hacks look like pennies, industry leaders warn

The potential losses that autonomous AI agents could cause in crypto may end up dwarfing anything the sector has seen, industry leaders warn. An AI agent, the relevant term here, is software t

AUGUST 20, 20262 MIN

08TECH

AI startup Nome helps rare disease families find paths from genetic diagnosis to treatment

Rare disease, in the medical sense, means a condition affecting so few patients that conventional drug development produces few or no approved treatments for it. Families who receive a genetic diagnosis for such a condition often have a…

AUGUST 19, 20261 MIN

09TECH

Alibaba releases laptop-ready AI model, escalating open-weight rivalry with Meta

Open-weight AI, the practice of publishing a model's trained numerical parameters so anyone can download and run or modify the system without going through a company's cloud, is getting more crowded. Aliba

AUGUST 19, 20261 MIN

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