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
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
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
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
Attacks on U.S. water and wastewater utilities were reported across about a dozen states, with incidents in Minnesota affecting more than 30 communities and some attacks causing “degraded water operations” along with loss of pressure that “could potentially allow untreated groundwater to seep into pipes,” plus temporary water-plant shutdowns and boil-water advisories.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
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
Dutch officials say CVE-2026-65400 is being actively abused from the Internet on Macs with port 5900 exposed, with root access gained and a Monero crypto miner deployed on affected systems.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
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
About 1.6 million unique RingCentral email addresses were leaked online with names, physical addresses, and phone numbers after a social-engineering campaign against a limited portion of customers.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
A Connecticut judge ruled that hidden “prompt injection” text in a plaintiff’s court filings—intended to be invisible to humans but readable by software—did not affect the outcome of the case and led to court sanctions for “serious litigation abuse.”
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
A court in St. Louis Circuit Court ordered OSS to return Nine PBS’s archival data and/or facilitate its transfer to a new vendor after Nine PBS sought access to about 50TB of data that Iron Mountain refused to release.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google Meet is rolling out in-person meeting note-taking that uses Gemini to create a structured summary and transcript in a Google Doc, saving it to Drive and emailing you a link, available on both app and desktop only for Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for individuals.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Ukraine’s GUR says it recovered an Nvidia Jetson Orin module from the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, suggesting AI-enabled targeting capabilities in the weapon.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
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
August 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped 751 CVEs across Microsoft products, including 108 rated critical, and it includes an already-exploited Windows elevation-of-privilege flaw (CVE-2026-68820) in the WinSock driver (afd.sys).
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
