Most pre-saved albums on Spotify's Album Countdown chart (08/23): #1#. Alex Warren – 391.6k #2#. Post Malone – 320.5k #3#. beabadoobee – 300k #4#. ADÉLA – 287.6k #5#. EVAN – 232k #6#. Natanael Cano – 228.8k #7#. Lizzy McAlpine – 216k #8#. Rod Wave – 199.4k #9#. Bob Marley & The Wailers – 117.3k #10#. Tove Lo – 114.2k

🖥️ 2Q26 #OLED# monitor rankings: ASUS retained the top spot with 23.1% share, while Samsung stayed second, just 0.3 percentage points ahead of MSI. 💡More analysis from #TrendForce#: 🔗

What an insane day for photonics. $SIVE up 31.3% $TSEM up 23.1% $AAOI 20.01%. It feels like a lot… but this just means you’re early to the next supercycle and there’s a lot of room to go. Lot of people on X ask what’s next after $SNDK? Here they are.

22.6 - Ally Sentnor's eight non-penalty goals in all comps for #NWSL# teams have been from an average distance of 22.6 yards. Since Opta began tracking NWSL goal distance in 2016, only Erika Tymrak (23.1) and Kristen Edmonds (23.0) have longer averages (min. 6 NP-goals). Range.

📊 BlackRock is the largest asset manager with over $15T AUM, and it currently holds $2.73B in tokenized RWAs across 15 chains. @Ethereum leads at $1.21B (44% market share), followed by @Solana at $675.3M (24.7%) and Avalanche (@avax) at $631.5M (23.1%).

We have a new most-watched soccer game in U.S. history: Mexico vs. England 21.7 million on Fox, 23.1 million on Telemundo. More than 44 million(!) in total. Astounding. Preliminary numbers, but for now, that tops USMNT-Belgium (perhaps because both teams showed up...)

$LITE shares saw volatile after-hours trading, initially falling >5%, then swinging to a >5% gain before briefly turning lower again. Fundamentals remained strong: FY26 Q4 revenue reached $ 1.01bn (+109% YoY), ahead of consensus, while the F1Q27 outlook came in well above expectations. Revenue guidance of $1.23–1.28bn implies a midpoint >8% above consensus, while adjusted EPS guidance of $4.05–4.35 is >16% above, with non-GAAP operating margin guided toward ~40%. Management also reiterated that key CPO customers remain on track for mass production, with ultra-high-power laser ramp progressing smoothly and volumes expected to grow further in 2027. >

BREAKING: The median sale price of existing US homes increased +2.2% YoY in June to a record $408,776. San Francisco led the increase at +9.2% YoY, followed by Pittsburgh at +9.1%, and West Palm Beach at +8.6%, with luxury purchases driving much of the gain. San Francisco and West Palm Beach also recorded the largest increases in closed home sales, rising +23.8% and +23.1% respectively, pointing to a sharp pickup in market activity. This comes as homebuying demand strengthened heading into the summer, with existing home sales rising +4.2% YoY, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of ~4.4 million in June, the highest since November 2022. At the same time, new listings fell -0.8% MoM, to 377,000, their lowest level since December. US housing affordability is deteriorating again.

Can video generation models actually reason about the visual world — or do they just make things look plausible? These sound similar but are fundamentally different. Placing objects correctly, respecting physical laws, and solving multi-step tasks with coherent intermediate states: this is what "Visual Grounded Intelligence" means. VGI-Bench quantifies how far current models are from achieving it. Across 27 tasks and 810 instances, the strongest model — Seedance 2.0 — reaches only 51.0% overall. Three failure modes appear repeatedly: physical collapse (unrealistic deformations and object penetrations), rule violations (reaching plausible end states while ignoring constraints), and object inconsistency (losing temporal identity across frames). Open-source models lag far behind commercial ones, with the strongest open-source model at 19.1%. What the denoising analysis reveals is even more telling. Self-correction during intermediate generation steps occurs in fewer than 1% of transitions. Wrong-to-wrong transitions at mid-denoising reach 23.1%, and later denoising steps primarily refine early hypotheses rather than fixing errors. Fine-tuning on 1M synthetic samples improved planning and spatial skills but degraded temporal and physical capabilities — a tradeoff that points to deeper architectural constraints. VGI-Bench makes clear that visual reasoning remains a genuine unsolved frontier for video generation. Title: VGI-Bench: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models URL: #VideoGeneration# #VisualReasoning#