Calendly is launching a meeting note-taker that joins meetings, records audio and video, transcribes them, and can generate a summary plus action items and draft follow-up emails.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Bicara presented 3-year follow-up on ficerafusp alfa showing about one in three patients alive at three years with the 1,500 mg weekly pivotal dose—roughly double retrospective standard-of-care pembrolizumab survival in HPV-negative head and neck cancer—while safety stayed consistent and overall survival nearly doubled vs standard of care.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Liquid AI released Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) Q4_0 GGUF checkpoints for four LFM2.5 models that retain about 96.5%–97.4% of BF16 baseline accuracy lost to quantization (97.1% for 230M, 96.5% for 350M, 97.4% for 1.2B-Instruct, 96.6% for 2.6B).
Aug 19, 2026 ·Hugging Face
98% of surveyed creators and marketers said they use AI in their work, including 86% for writing copy/captions and 84% for generating content ideas, while the share using AI for graphic design or image editing rose from 38% in 2025 to 61%
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNET
Google agreed to buy Spirit Airlines’ internal business data for $10 million—outbidding Mercor’s $7.5 million—after stripping customer information before the bankruptcy sale closes at a court hearing.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Marvell will help develop Google’s custom AI chips and has offered Google a right to buy up to a $12.18 billion stake via a warrant for 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nebius Group plans to raise $4.5 billion via an offering of private convertible notes to fund data center expansion and additional computing capacity.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA released Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images taken August 11–12 that show a new ~60-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep lunar crater created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crash on August 5.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
Nvidia says a consortium led by Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR is putting together $500 billion in financing to treat “compute” (including Nvidia chips and CUDA software) as an investable asset class.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Verge
Vivodyne says its autonomous “HIVE” robotic labs generate causal human-tissue data by growing 20 kinds of human tissue and then dosing and monitoring them—aimed at fixing a data gap in AI drug discovery that today’s models mostly fill with animal testing and single-cell/protein studies.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya says Nvidia (NVDA) is trading at about a 40%–50% discount versus AI compute peers on an enterprise value-to-free cash flow basis and a 31%–36% discount versus the S&P 500 (GSPC), creating a “compelling opportunity.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alibaba agreed to sell its entire stake in Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital for more than $2 billion (Bloomberg pegged it closer to $1.5 billion).
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Put option buying and use of inverse ETFs have increased as retail investors hedge AI and tech exposure, even as overall cash stock purchases have declined—put buying of the top 12 retail-favored stocks in 2026 rose to 110% of net cash buying from about 26% in the first quarter.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNBC
U.S. Treasury yields stayed near multi-decade highs while the 10-year “term premium” is near its highest level in a decade, even after a below-forecast U.S. industrial production report eased yields somewhat overnight.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Jeff Gundlach said Nvidia and Wall Street’s planned $500 billion AI financing effort “will not likely age well,” likening it to issuing 30-year asset-backed securities backed by “warehouses of bananas” with “unknown life,” which he implied are risky collateral.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Firefox’s Smart Window beta lets you switch among three built-in AI models (Fast, Flexible, Personal) while optionally saving “Memories” and choosing whether the assistant learns from chats, browsing, or both.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
ZDNet
The article recommends six Linux distros that are expected to avoid shipping AI in the OS—Debian, Void Linux, MX Linux, Arch, Slackware, and AerynOS—and notes that even if a distro refuses to ship AI, users can still install AI themselves.
Aug 19, 2026 ·ZDNet
ByteDance and Tencent received 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips each in recent weeks after China reportedly eased restrictions to allow the processors to enter the mainland, with additional H200 shipments of similar size expected for other Chinese companies.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Engadget
AI-exposed industries have generally seen slower job openings growth since the second half of 2022, and call centers employment is now 39% below trend in the U.S., 33% lower in Canada, and 27% below trend in Germany.
Aug 19, 2026 ·CNBC
Baidu told investors that Chinese customers are increasingly choosing domestic AI inferencing chips because AI chip supply is likely to remain constrained for some time.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
