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Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (www.wired.com)
2026-8-14

Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-14 4Q

Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-14 California

Microsoft Retreats In China (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 China Microsoft

Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-14 Apple

A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-14 Reddit

A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-14 Startup

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Google

OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (thenewstack.io)
2026-8-14

Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Microsoft

Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (www.gamefile.news)
2026-8-14 Netflix

Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 Ukraine

Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-14

Akira hackers disable EDR with Safe Mode, steal data but fail to encrypt (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 Amazon

Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public (slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14 Silver

Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects (www.coindesk.com)
2026-8-14 KPMG

Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of about $100B as soon as next year (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14 IPO

US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update that lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in more than 70 languages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Robot

Prepare for seven CompTIA exams with one $50 lifetime bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 New York

AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 AI

Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 Microsoft

OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-14

Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 AI Apple

X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems “shadowbanned” them (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-14 GitHub

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