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Cirqa Smart Ring: Garmin plant offenbar Einstieg in den Smartring-Markt
Ein Datenbankeintrag deutet darauf hin, dass Garmin sein Portfolio um einen Smartring erweitert. Das Produkt könnte unter dem Namen Cirqa erscheinen.

Cirqa Smart Ring: Garmin plant offenbar Einstieg in den Smartring-Markt
Ein Datenbankeintrag deutet darauf hin, dass Garmin sein Portfolio um einen Smartring erweitert. Das Produkt könnte unter dem Namen Cirqa erscheinen.

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' "mention markets", prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/13/nx-s1-5930689/cftc…

Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/117081965131151970
“[Perplexity] warned that publishers who deploy ‘deceptive advertising like markdown ads‘ risk a reputational downgrade in Perplexity’s proprietary search index, including a hit to their t…

Dreißig Posts pro Woche statt acht, die Landingpage entsteht an einem Nachmittag, der Newsletter-Entwurf in gerade mal zwanzig Minuten – KI macht ganze Marketing-Teams zu Fließbändern. Nur dumm, dass laut Prof. Dr. Gerald Lembke alle Fließbandware gleich schmeckt: korrekt, glatt, austauschbar. Die mühsam aufgebaute Markenstimme? Wurde nebenbei wegoptimiert. #KI

Mehr Content, weniger Wirkung: Was in Marketingabteilungen gerade wirklich passiert
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, in den Marketingabteilungen, mit denen ich arbeite, ist KI längst angekommen. Texte, Bildmotive, Kampagnenideen, Reportings, Social-Posts.

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/china-smartphone-market-decline…

Why Huawei and Apple Grew While China’s Smartphone Market Fell Again in Q2 2026
China smartphone shipments fell 4.3% in Q2 2026 while Huawei and Apple grew nearly 20% each. IDC breaks down the vendor shift and outlook.

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
with higher returns,
according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens,
one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied.
The difference in stock returns between companies with the most and least AI exposure is substantial
— about 0.64% per week,
a financial benefit the researchers call the…

Analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens reveals how the technology is transforming financial markets
A study of a massive dataset of real-world AI consumption shows on how AI is affecting businesses, workers, and financial markets.

Lenovo verlagert Fokus von XR-Brillen auf KI-Wearables
Lenovo zieht Konsequenzen aus dem schwächelnden XR-Markt und richtet sein Innovationsgeschäft auf KI-Wearables aus.
https://www.hei…

Lenovo verlagert Fokus von XR-Brillen auf KI-Wearables
Lenovo zieht Konsequenzen aus dem schwächelnden XR-Markt und richtet sein Innovationsgeschäft auf KI-Wearables aus.

River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-m…

Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions
The round was led by Haun Ventures alongside Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and others.

A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/sports/soccer/fifas-pred…