Birkenstock shares rose 11.59% on Aug. 13 after fiscal 2026 third-quarter results showed stronger-than-expected revenue, solid online growth, and management lifted its full-year guidance.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI compute is becoming an “investable asset class,” with Nvidia working with major financial institutions to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data centers and Nvidia hardware.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
USB-C is the connector, while USB4 is the newer USB standard; USB4 cables use USB-C but older USB-C ports won’t support USB4’s higher speeds, so using a USB4 device on a USB 3.2 port can cap bandwidth at USB 3.2’s 10 or 20 Gbps (depending on generation) instead of USB4’s 40 Gbps (first-gen).
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Xteink’s X3, X4, and X4 Pro e-readers can access DRM-protected ebooks borrowed through OverDrive’s Libby (and purchased books from stores like Kobo) via the CrossPoint Reader “Protected Content” plug-in running through the device’s web server.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
SpaceX acquired Cursor, paying $60 billion for the startup that built its AI coding tool.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan bought 105,263 Intel shares at $95 in the open market in connection with the company’s concurrent $20 billion secondary offering, valuing the purchase at $10 million.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Utility-scale solar led new US power capacity additions in the year, adding 11,458 megawatts, followed by batteries at 8,207 megawatts and onshore wind at 5,473 megawatts.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A ChainDrop variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm infected 444 packages from multiple publishers, affecting dependencies collectively downloaded about 2 billion times a month.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Register
Victrola Soundstage is designed to sit under a turntable, delivering a warm, bass-forward sound with deep, punchy bass and minimal distortion while adding space-saving convenience versus a full vinyl speaker setup.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Lego released a 1,252-piece Icons Hubble Space Telescope set that is 32 cm tall, includes one astronaut minifigure, and costs £119.99.
Aug 15, 2026 ·The Register
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
