UPDATED AUGUST 16, 2026 · 1118 STORIES ON THE WIRE

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01CRYPTO

Bitcoin and ethereum slide as inflation relief fails to lift crypto prices

Crypto prices are slipping again, and the inflation report that moved gold and silver higher this week is not doing the same for digital assets. ETF outflows

AUGUST 16, 20262 MIN

02ENERGY

America's emergency oil reserve nears a level where experts say the underground caverns holding it could be damaged

America's emergency oil stockpile is being drawn down so fast that it is approaching a point where the underground caverns holding the crude could sustain physical damage. That stockpile is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federal…

AUGUST 16, 20261 MIN

03CRYPTO

Ethereum developers to trim 66 Hegotá proposals before the upgrade begins

Sixty-six improvement proposals are under review ahead of Ethereum's next upgrade, and the developer community plans to narrow that field before work gets underway. An improvement proposal is a formal technical specification any developer…

AUGUST 16, 20261 MIN

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04DEALS

Caterpillar logs first $20 billion quarter as order backlog reaches record $72 billion

A record order backlog, the stack of customer orders placed but not yet shipped, reached $72 billion at Caterpillar (CAT) at the end of the second quarter of 2026. That is up 92% from the same quarter in 2025 and $9 billion above the prior…

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05MARKETS

Bridgewater trims Amazon as it adds to Shell and PG&E

Big money shifted its holdings last quarter, tilting away from technology and toward energy. Holdings, meaning the shares a fund owns at the end of a reporting period, grew for Shell and PG&E at Bridgewater Associates during the second…

AUGUST 16, 20261 MIN

06MACRO

Russia hits Ukraine missile factory, drone plant, oil refinery, and steel mill in overnight strikes

Russia struck weapons production plants and industrial sites across Ukraine overnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. Production plants, meaning factories that manufacture weapons rather than store or deploy them, were named…

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07HEALTH

Federal vaccine messaging is making new parents' decisions harder, says the AAP president

Fearmongering (spreading exaggerated alarm to shift behavior, rather than to inform a decision) is what some federal leaders are doing on childhood vaccines, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics now argues. The AAP is the…

AUGUST 16, 20262 MIN

08TECH

OpenAI and Google are making voice the primary interface for AI agents

Voice is becoming the main channel for interacting with AI agents, a term that describes software systems built to take actions on your behalf rather than simply generate text responses. OpenAI and Google are both directing heavy…

AUGUST 16, 20262 MIN

09REGULATORY

Ex-LA detective who served fraction of 102-year sentence charged in Ventura County cold case

A 102-year prison sentence did not keep Michael Douglas Brambles locked up. Brambles, 77, a former Los Angeles vice detective convicted of 26 violent crimes three decades ago, was paroled in 2020 under a California law that allows elderly…

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