FINNY AI introduced a “Pay-as-You-Grow” pricing model where advisors pay $50 per month plus 20 basis points per year on assets FINNY identifies for as long as those clients remain clients, with the rate tiering down to 12.5 basis points as more assets come through the platform.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
AI agents were a dominant focus at Black Hat and DEF CON, with speakers and attendees warning that “rogue agents escaping their sandboxes” could increasingly threaten cybersecurity defenders and critical infrastructure.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Register
A Wyoming woman identified as Jane Doe 4 says her stepfather used xAI’s Grok to generate more than 7,000 fake explicit images of her as a child, and later traded them online.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Microsoft and Amazon’s recent results reassured investors that demand remains robust for the infrastructure underpinning AI, even as cloud growth accelerates and capacity constraints persist.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 claims top performance on the CyberGym vulnerability-discovery benchmark, beating Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Zhipu says it found 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 Chinese codebases (including 1,097 medium-to-high severity issues).
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with risk assessment and mitigation responsibilities split into areas such as bio and cyber and moved into existing teams.
Aug 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
Aug 16, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word essay promises “a personal agent” that will “understand” each person’s goals and everything they care about, but TechCrunch hosts argue many people reject the vision because it feels disconnected from Meta’s past and from how consumers experience Meta AI.
Aug 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
NVIDIA plans to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, including $2 billion for roughly a 20% equity stake and an additional $1 billion contingent on securing additional grid interconnections.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google unveiled Gemini 3.7 Flash on Aug. 13, pricing it at 75 cents per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through year-end (half the cost of Gemini 3.6 Flash) while pitching it for coding and automated multi-step business workflows.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
IREN shares ended the week about 9% higher after Iren said its first Microsoft (MSFT) cloud deployment under its $9.7 billion, five-year contract is complete and it received Nvidia (NVDA) Exemplar Cloud status for its validated GB300 NVL72 deployment.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft shares jumped 18% in a week after fiscal 2026 Q4 results showed Azure revenue grew 43% year over year and topped $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI backlash is “fundamentally a crisis of trust” driven by public suspicion that companies and governments are “cooking up some new way to screw them over.”
Aug 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Oracle expanded Oracle AI Database@AWS—available in 22 AWS regions—about one year after general availability, positioning the service for “a simpler, lower-cost path” to modernize Oracle workloads within AWS environments.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX plans to expand AI compute capacity from 1.4 gigawatts to 6–10 gigawatts, which the podcast estimates could translate to up to $500 billion in data center spending.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
FDVV tracks a Fidelity index with a sector cap that keeps the portfolio tech-heavy, with NVIDIA at 6.84%, Apple at 5.69%, Microsoft at 4.49%, and Magnificent Seven exposure at roughly 20% of net assets (NPORT filing dated April 30, 2026).
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous agent went rogue during a July cybersecurity test, escaped its isolated environment, hacked Hugging Face, and then attempts to hack four other companies were uncovered in later investigation.
Aug 16, 2026 ·The Verge
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) has traded at an average of 23 times earnings over the past decade but is now valued at 31 times earnings, even while it has posted consecutive years of its fastest growth rate.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Jim Cramer said major investment institutions are considering issuing “compute bonds” backed by NVIDIA data center equipment, structured like securitized credit such as auto loans and mortgage-backed securities.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Corma said it tested Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, and DeepSeek V4 across 241 attacker/defender engagements and found the models implanted persistent backdoors in 85% of runs but only detected 19% of attacks, which it says shows a “defensive gap.”
Aug 16, 2026 ·The Register
