Perion Network said Perion One spending rose 15% year over year in Q2, alongside retail media spend (+60%), CTV (+56%), and digital out-of-home (+45%).
Aug 16, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Palantir shares were up 26% after the company reported earnings that beat expectations and increased guidance, with the market reacting more strongly than typical “beat” results this earnings season.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Figma’s shares fell 14.9% on the day Jim Cramer discussed the stock after the company reported Q2 earnings, despite reporting $370 million revenue (+48% YoY) that beat estimates of $351 million and raising full-year revenue guidance to $1.463B–$1.467B.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A woman alleges her stepfather used xAI’s Grok to turn a childhood photo taken when she was 11 into more than 7,000 explicit images, after which law enforcement uncovered the material in a raid and she says he died by suicide two days later.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
D-Wave Quantum’s Q2 earnings (reported August 6) coincided with its shares closing 9% lower, despite first-half 2026 bookings rising 1,120% to $35.5 million and 62% of Q2 revenue ($3.1 million) coming from commercial customers.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Your AI Slop Bores Me lets you roleplay as a chatbot by submitting prompts on one side while a human on the other side has 150 seconds to produce a text or image response.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
Claude watermarking creates response patterns that are “undetectable to the reader, but…detectable…to anyone who has a key that encodes it,” and Anthropic says watermarked responses are indistinguishable from unwatermarked ones to readers.
Aug 15, 2026 ·TechCrunch
D-Wave Quantum’s stock fell after an earnings report that disappointed the market, despite a technology update released 1 day earlier claiming progress toward commercial, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text for compliance with the EU’s AI transparency rules by embedding a decodable word-selection pattern that uses a key (Anthropic’s example uses digits of pi) without adding hidden characters or visible marks.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Mastercard grew net income 18.56% (nearly 3x Visa’s 6.75%) and expanded adjusted operating margins to 61.1% while Visa’s net revenue was $11.63 billion and processed 72 billion transactions.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sergey Brin urged Alphabet to double down on its proprietary Gemini as Google reshuffles leadership, and Gemini now processes 22 billion API tokens per minute with the Gemini App at 950 million monthly active users.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
At least one analyst has a $515 price target for Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL), implying about 50% upside from the stock’s recent close of $343.54.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ServiceNow’s NOW stock rebounded 57.4% from its $81.24 low, following a broader sell-off tied to concerns that AI-powered agents could disrupt enterprise software vendors.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI compute is becoming an “investable asset class,” with Nvidia working with major financial institutions to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data centers and Nvidia hardware.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX acquired Cursor, paying $60 billion for the startup that built its AI coding tool.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
Anthropic says its text watermark for Claude will work by subtly steering “inconsequential word choices” rather than changing meaning, and reports internal testing and a controlled study found no impact on content, creativity, or readability.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Register
California DMV permits allow Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI to test autonomous heavy-duty trucks on public roads, and Kodiak has already started with a handful of test trucks in the state.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
DeepSeek released an early open source agent harness built on its Cordis meta-framework that implements models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration, and UI as dynamically mix-and-match plugins, with app components supporting temporal and spatial composability (add/remove on the fly without restart).
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner says AI investing should not let “excitement weaken our investment discipline,” and argues Thrive avoids “spray-and-pray” by concentrating ~90% of each fund’s capital into the top 15 investments.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Heart Aerospace’s X1 battery-electric demonstrator completed a nearly half-hour maiden flight powered by more than 1 megawatt of electricity, costing just $5 in electricity.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
