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Edit, sign, convert, and organize PDFs with one Mac app for just $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4

HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-8-4 AI

Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4

Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 Startup AI Nvidia Norway

AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 Startup AI

Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-4 Russia

Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-4 Uber

Sources: the FCC is drafting a restriction on US imports of new models of Chinese data center optical transceivers, set to take effect upon publication in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 China

Sources: China's CXMT is set to manufacture small quantities of LPDDR6 smartphone memory by the end of 2026, as it seeks to compete with SK Hynix and Samsung (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 China Samsung

In a rare interview, Huawei chip scientist Liao Heng warns Western chip companies will eventually face physical chip limits and talks Huawei's Tau Scaling Law (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 Interview

Sources: the US is focused on promoting US AI models to be more competitive, after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to open source AI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-4 AI

How Wall Street learned to love the blockchain, as US regulators accept tokenized assets and other tech can offer significant advantages in speed and efficiency (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 IPO

Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guidance, and a €545M net income (variety.com)
2026-8-4 Spotify

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 India Retail Apple

Sources: Beijing is growing concerned about the cyber capabilities of Mythos and other US-developed frontier AI models and their potential as offensive weapons (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-4 AI

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Google

A look at Alphabet's moonshot lab X and interviews with its staff, including CEO Astro Teller, on reinventing itself and what its next big thing might be (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-8-4 Alphabet

Spain Offers $1.14 Billion To Get Thirty Meter Telescope Moved To Canary Islands (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-4 Spain

Filing: Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 Apple

OpenAI disputes Apple's account of pre-lawsuit contacts, rejects claims that ex-staff used confidential information, shares iMessages and emails, and more (openai.com)
2026-8-4 Apple

Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, ActivityPub, scaling moderation, Bluesky's reputation as a progressive social media network, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-4

Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-4

OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000 (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-4 Mathematics

Apple says it “briefly removed Telegram from the App Store” over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram “promptly removed the content and banned the user” (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-4 Apple

Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE “may” be a crime (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-4

New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4 Google

Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4 Microsoft

TikTok agrees to settle three more teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial; 2,600 cases with similar claims are pending in California federal court (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 California

Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (www.texastribune.org)
2026-8-4 Texas

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