Facts, not takes
KKR & Co. GP LLC agreed to pay $250 million to resolve federal allegations that it repeatedly bypassed required premerger antitrust review, the U.S. Department of Justice said on August 26, 2026.
The President signed an order on August 26, 2026, declaring a national emergency directed at securing the U.S. bulk-power system, the White House said.
OpenAI published the first benchmark results for its custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, on August 25, 2026, showing the chip outpacing current state-of-the-art hardware on speed and power efficiency.
UN agencies warned on August 24, 2026, that a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 100 days and is spreading at a scale they described as unprecedented, according to United Nations News.
The Federal Trade Commission and five states reached a settlement with Zillow and Redfin on August 24, 2026, filing a stipulated order in federal court to resolve antitrust litigation over an allegedly unlawful agreement between the two…
The UN Security Council met on August 24, 2026, to receive briefings from senior UN officials on escalating armed conflict, mass displacement, and deepening hunger in Sudan.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million on August 17, 2026, for using automated systems to deactivate driver accounts without adequately informing those drivers.