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
Jim Cramer told a caller to sell Stellantis (STLA) and buy General Motors (GM) “tomorrow,” saying he doesn’t think Stellantis is investable right now but that GM’s CEO Mary Barra would “take care of whether it should be electric or not.”
Aug 16, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A delayed $80,000 commission payment can be treated as exempt from Social Security’s 2026 retirement-earnings limit only if the work was completed before retirement; otherwise Social Security may withhold benefits based on the W-2 showing the payment as current-year income.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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
NiSource cut adjusted EPS to $0.16 in Q2 (from $0.22 a year earlier) but reaffirmed 2026 adjusted EPS guidance of $2.02 to $2.07 and its 6% to 8% long-term growth rate through 2030.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wildfire smoke is contributing more to prenatal PM2.5 exposure and is now a larger prenatal air-pollution threat than human pollution sources, especially for babies in the West and Northwest.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Investors will focus on big-box retailer earnings this week, led by Walmart (WMT) on Thursday and followed by Alibaba (BABA), Ross Stores (ROST), and Deere & Company (DE), with BJ’s Wholesale Club (BJ) reporting on Friday.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Burger King helped drive Restaurant Brands International’s Q2 results with 3.8% comps and 8.6% same-store sales growth in the US and Canada, but Restaurant Brands shares still fell 2% as weakness at other brands outweighed Burger King’s gains.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Symbotic’s fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 22% year over year to $721 million, while net income swung to $55 million from a $21 million loss and adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $95 million from $45 million.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A law signed by Joe Biden eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), raising Social Security payments for about 3.2 million public servants and other beneficiaries, with nearly 3.1 million payments totaling about $17 billion sent out by July 2025.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Starboard Value took a stake in Shake Shack after the company reported a mixed quarter, and Jim Cramer said Starboard’s franchising push in the U.S. helped turn the quarter’s initial reaction positive and came alongside a move in the stock of over 12% the following week.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
If a co-signer is paying attention too late, the lender can report the loan’s late payments to credit bureaus and the co-signer’s credit can be damaged even if the borrower has stopped paying for months.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A pull request (PR) description should be written as a “point-in-time statement” aimed at persuading reviewers to accept the change, while source code comments are meant to document the code itself for long-term future understanding.
Aug 16, 2026 ·The Register
Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera bundle for $71.99, including a 16-photo film pack, down from the usual $109.99.
Aug 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Kingdom Hearts 4’s new trailer debuted at D23 and Nomura said the “original trailer” was 4 minutes long, expanding on details about King Mickey’s playable puzzle gameplay, Maleficent’s major role, and big plans for Quadratum and Disney Town.
Aug 16, 2026 ·
CNET
Pershing Square deployed more than 95% of PSUS’s $5 billion IPO capital across 14 investments, including new positions in Visa, Mastercard, Intercontinental Exchange, Netflix, Alcon, and S&P Global.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley kept an Equal Weight rating on Tesla and said the next quarter needs to show measurable progress as weaker gross margins, higher R&D spending, and extended free cash flow burn sharpen focus on Robotaxi and Optimus.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Disney and Epic Games are launching a Fortnite rewards tie-in for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run that starts Sunday, Aug. 16, letting park guests complete a special mission on the ride and use collected crates to unlock rewards on a new Star Wars island in Fortnite called Smugglers Gambit.
Aug 16, 2026 ·CNET
Adjusted EPS was $1.02 versus $0.87 expected, but Block’s shares dropped about 6% the next day after investors focused on Cash App monthly transacting actives growth of just 3% year-over-year in June and guidance for only low single-digit actives growth in 2026.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Curtiss-Wright reported Q2 2026 sales of $924 million (up 5% year-over-year), operating income up 12% with margin expansion of 110 basis points, and free cash flow up 37% to $160 million, and raised full-year guidance across the board.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
