CrowStrike (CRWD) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) shares both jumped more than 5% to record highs after Black Hat in Las Vegas, with BTIG saying AI agents have “fundamentally changed the threat landscape.”
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.’s Q2 net loss widened to $238.1 million, up from about $20 million a year earlier, with more than $190 million in losses tied to its digital asset and equity holdings amid crypto price pressure.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Disney and Comcast ended a three-month blackout that had left roughly 11 million Xfinity subscribers without NFL Network and NFL RedZone since the end of April.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nevada’s Transportation Authority approved permits allowing Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis in Clark County over the next 12 months.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google says it is tracking three suspected Russian cyber-spy groups (UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976) running targeted phishing campaigns in Europe and the US that abuse legitimate OAuth authentication flows, with OAuth phishing observed in June 2026 where victims share a full URL or verification code after a legitimate login to grant account access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
Micro1 increased its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over eight months, with a net annual run rate estimated at $150 million to $200 million (keeping roughly 60%–70% of gross).
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Applied Materials (AMAT) reported fiscal Q3 adjusted earnings of $3.50/share (vs. $3.40 expected) and revenue of $9.12B (vs. ~$9B expected), but its stock fell nearly 5% after hours and kept sliding into Aug. 14, 2026.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Jason Calacanis says he supports raising the minimum wage now, citing evidence that California’s fast-food minimum wage increase raised consumer prices by only about 1% to 2% and did not lead to widespread restaurant closures or job losses.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Netflix announced premiere dates and released trailers for multiple upcoming anime titles, including Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 on Oct. 20 and Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 in January 2027.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
Papers with Code’s search is powered by a hybrid system that combines PostgreSQL full-text search with pgvector dense embeddings, merged with reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), and it falls back to full-text retrieval if the Hugging Face Inference Endpoint for query embeddings is cold, busy, or unhealthy.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Hugging Face
A new study finds “benchmark optimization” in speech recognition can cause models to reproduce erroneous benchmark reference transcripts even when audio contradicts them—flagging potential reference errors in 40% of VoxPopuli test clips and making benchmark-optimized behavior appear 18–30% of the time for several highest-scoring models.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Workday shares rose nearly 18% on Aug. 13, 2026—its best single-day performance in 10 years—after Reuters reported Silver Lake is in talks to acquire the company in a deal that could be among the largest software buyouts in history.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to at least double buybacks of longer-dated U.S. debt failed to hold, with 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields rising again on Thursday after briefly falling the day before.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google integrated Antigravity, its agentic AI coding assistant, into Gemini Enterprise subscriptions and made it manageable through Google Cloud enterprise controls, including IDE access plus billing, security, and governance settings.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
Investors want founders who understand their company’s financial reality—messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash can cost leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman backs Restaurant Brands International’s stock, citing 7% same-store growth in Burger King’s first-half of 2026 and a valuation around a 17x P/E that he says is a “material discount to peers” and below intrinsic value.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Lenovo posted first-quarter revenue of $26.94 billion, up 43% year over year on AI hardware demand, but swung to a $609 million net loss due to a nonrecurring fair-value loss tied to warrants revalued from 2025.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI models already power about 25% of AT&T’s total AI usage, and AT&T targets 70% to 80% over time using cheaper open models, saying switching cut its costs by 80% to 90% in some applications while it routes ~45 billion AI tokens a day.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple is discussing multiyear, pay-as-you-go deals that would license publishers’ content to support an AI-upgraded Siri expected to roll out later in 2026, with Apple reportedly discussing a possible nine-figure budget for payments tied to content use.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
MiniMed Flex is commercially shipping in the U.S., integrated with Abbott’s Instinct continuous glucose sensor using a 15-day sensor and delivering 80% Time in Range and over 90% overnight in real-world data.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
