Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
Stripe and Advent are again reportedly in talks to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share, valuing it at about $53 billion, after an earlier July offer.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Stripe and Advent are again reportedly in talks to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share, valuing it at about $53 billion, after an earlier July offer.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Berkshire Hathaway increased its Alphabet stake 83% in Q2 to about 106 million shares worth $37.9 billion, making Alphabet its third-largest U.S.-listed equity holding by market value behind Apple and American Express.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
I don’t have the article’s actual content—only a CNBC site/footer snippet—so I can’t extract the specific finding, figures, or claims needed to summarize it.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
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
The CFTC is conducting an internal review of “mention markets” on prediction platforms, and Kalshi was alerted to the review several weeks ago.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
Mozilla announced in May 2025 that it is shutting down Pocket, acquired in 2017, and Pocket users had until October 8, 2025 to export saved items (lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights).
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
A Washington state judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers in Washington, finding Kalshi’s marketing and advertising of its “prediction market” bets constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts under state gambling and consumer protection law.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Europe’s average launch cost to orbit is about $9,897 per kilogram in 2025—roughly three times the $3,225 per kilogram estimate for the United States for comparable payloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
President Trump ordered the US Navy to plan replacing EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) with steam-powered aircraft launch systems on the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) and to replace the Advanced Weapons Elevators with older hydraulic versions.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
The Register
Unforgetful is a new iOS and Mac reminders app that keeps notifications repeating until the task is actually done (and deleted), revamps snoozing with scaling intervals, and replaces Apple Reminders notifications while still using the existing Reminders database.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Snowflake Volunteer is a standalone Android app that lets everyday users lend their phone as a proxy to help others access the Tor Network under censorship, with real-time stats shown in the app dashboard (connections helped and bytes sent/received).
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
The Stop Killing Games movement argues that publishers should preserve playable access to online games after shutting down servers, because the practice is “intolerable” and typically involves minimal technical cost if planned from the start.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Hulu released Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 standalone X-Files film I Want to Believe, retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe–Vrach Frankenshteyn, as an August 14 release with a full re-edit to “make it the scary movie” he originally intended.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Over 24,000 people have been sickened and two have died in a Cyclospora outbreak tied to Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms, prompting Sen. Elizabeth Warren to accuse the federal government’s response of being “botched” and “marred by missteps.”
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Anthropic launched Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens and called off a planned September price increase for Sonnet 5.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
France’s tax authority (DGFiP) confirmed that an intruder accessed its information system in late June 2026 after identity theft and extracted data, despite the access being severed at the end of June during an audit.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Virgin Galactic delayed the start of commercial spaceflight to February 2027 and plans to raise suborbital ticket prices later this year after demand exceeded the initial $750,000 seat batch.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar left the company about a year after joining, according to the Financial Times, and the loss of its sole ethicist is likely to increase pressure as OpenAI prepares for an IPO.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Meta has given up control of Chinese AI startup Manus after eight months.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
