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Docs: Anthropic told investors it generated $11.5B+ in revenue, with positive adjusted operating income, in Q2, up from $787M in Q2 2025 and $4.73B in Q1 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15

France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 France Ban Social Media

Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Amazon

The US OCC conditionally approves a bank charter application for Trump family's World Liberty Financial, allowing it to directly issue its USD1 stablecoin (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 Trump

Investor letter: Thrive's 2022 early-stage $516M fund that invested in OpenAI and SpaceX was worth $3.7B+ as of the end of June, net of fees and other charges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 SpaceX

PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15

Sources: PayPal is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and Advent, which proposed paying $60.50/share in July; PayPal is seeking a higher price (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15

Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-15

Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called “Model 2” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-15

DeepSeek raises V4 model prices, adding dynamic pricing from August 16; V4-Flash output tokens go from $0.28/1M to $1.32 during peak hours and $0.66 in off-peak (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15

Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Russia AI Ukraine Nvidia

Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15

Nevada granted Tesla a robotaxi permit, but capped the fleet at 10 vehicles, not 5,000 that Tesla sought, banned airport pickups, and ordered other restrictions (www.axios.com)
2026-8-15 Tesla

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Google

Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Trump Drone

Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Apple officially opens ad bookings for businesses on Apple Maps ahead of an upcoming full rollout across the US and Canada (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-15 Apple Canada

Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Apple

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (x.com)
2026-8-15 Alibaba

In Q2, “other income”, mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15 Amazon Tax Alphabet

Hackers exploit macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy Monero miner (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 Monero

Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 AI

Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15

The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Source: Greg Brockman is “in founder mode” and getting more involved across every level of OpenAI to build out a leadership team ahead of an expected IPO (www.axios.com)
2026-8-15 IPO

France's top court blocks a bill banning social media for under-15s, citing freedom of expression; Macron asks his government to re-work the bill (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 France

Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, aiming to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: stablecoin payments company RedotPay delays plans for a US IPO to 2027 or later, as it seeks regulatory approvals and deals with legal issues (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 IPO

RingCentral data breach exposed info of 1.6 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

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