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2026-08-13Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-13Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-13Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
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2026-08-13A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (J.J. McCorvey/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (The Information)
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2026-08-13Counterpoint: China's YMTC accounted for 14% of NAND flash shipments in Q2, behind Samsung's 25% and SK Hynix's 22%, but ahead of Micron and Kioxia (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post)
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2026-08-13Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 43% YoY to $26.94B, its highest quarterly revenue growth in five years, as AI-related revenue rose 60% YoY to $9.3B, 35% of total (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
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2026-08-13Over 30 crypto companies, including Coinbase and Block, say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
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2026-08-13Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra (Alex Townsend)
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2026-08-13Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattack campaign from overseas targeting government agencies last month, but affected agencies successfully "handled" it (Reuters)
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2026-08-13Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires (Financial Times)
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2026-08-13Rapidly advancing AI tools have created investor uncertainty and fear around the SaaS business model and the private equity and credit built on top of it (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (Financial Times)
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2026-08-13London- and Boston-based Mindgard, which offers automated AI security and red-teaming tools to help organizations secure AI systems, raised a $30M Series A (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
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2026-08-13Foreign investment in Japan's chip industry has reached ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)
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2026-08-13President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private firms to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 (Financial Times)
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2026-08-13Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech with a16z and others participating (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about $6B (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-13Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (Business Insider)
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