SpaceX officially closed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding platform Cursor, with the deal effective Aug. 14.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
GeForce Now Ultimate on Windows can now stream PC games in Firefox up to 1440p and 120fps.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Bank of America Institute research says that as of July, spending and wage growth have largely converged across income groups except the top 5% of earners, whose outperformance continues.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google’s Gmail Verified Sender Program will let US political committees bypass Gmail’s spam filtering if they send from a verified domain and keep their messages marked as spam under 0.3% of the time.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
A 5,000mAh–10,000mAh power bank is the best go-to option to keep your phone charged away from outlets, with the Anker MagGo Power Bank (10,000mAh) taking an iPhone 15 from almost dead to half full in about 45 minutes and up to 70% after a subsequent charge.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Wolfe Research downgraded T-Mobile US (TMUS) from Outperform to Peer Perform on August 14, 2026, citing risks to its growth and cash-return story amid intensifying competition.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs named CoStar Group (CSGP) the top pick in its “AI Productivity Beneficiaries” basket, estimating 37% of its wage bill is exposed to AI automation and that labor costs equal 31% of sales.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Costco stock climbed after a partnership was announced to let Costco members access co-branded Medicare Advantage plans with Scan Group, which has about 560,000 Medicare Advantage members in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Walmart has already announced a 5% increase to its fiscal 2027 annual dividend to $0.99 per share, with the quarterly dividend set at $0.2475 per share and payable on Sept. 8.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Disney, ABC, and eight ABC-owned stations sued the FCC and Chairman Brendan Carr, seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to halt Carr’s early license-review proceeding that could threaten renewal or revocation over ABC speech.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Agentic memory improved task completion in a model-dependent way: gpt-oss-120b gained +16.1 percentage points (TGC) with curated retrieval versus +5% more tokens, while DeepSeek-V3.2 gained +9.5pp (TGC) from the full guideline set and GLM-5 showed 0.0pp gain (TGC and SGC) from any memory configuration.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Bill Gates’ foundation trust and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway both held Kraft Heinz (KHC) as of the end of Q2, with Berkshire’s stake at 2.6% of its book and the Gates Foundation stake worth about $58.4 million.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Pony.ai’s overseas robotaxi deployment pipeline has grown to more than 4,000 vehicles, including a contract with Uber for more than 2,000 robotaxis in Europe.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VanEck’s Pharma ETF (PPH) pays a 1.9% trailing-12-month dividend yield versus State Street’s Biotech ETF (XBI) at a 0.4% yield.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI said it will tighten safeguards for model development by adding stronger monitoring, alignment and security controls and increasing network isolation so a single workload compromise won’t by itself enable unauthorized internet or internal-network access.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Whoop says its Advanced Labs blood-testing health screenings are no longer gated behind a separate subscription for any Whoop users, though the Quest Diagnostics tests start around $150 per test.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Best Buy has the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro on sale for $139.99, $40 below Amazon’s current price and down from $249.99.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Cognex shares catapulted 85% as AI-focused momentum hit the company’s stock around its earnings.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Curaleaf has made an official hostile $4 per share offer to Aurora shareholders, a ~45% premium to Aurora’s Aug. 10 30-day average share price, and projects about $40 million in annual cost synergies.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Baidu’s Q2 earnings per share fell to RMB7.22 versus an analyst estimate of RMB9.84, while revenue slipped 4% year over year to RMB31.33 billion as advertising weakness outweighed AI growth.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
