Tech

Let AI handle photo editing with Luminar Neo for $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-13 AI

WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-13 WhatsApp

Accelerant, which uses data analytics to connect insurance underwriters with risk capital partners, agrees to go private with Thoma Bravo in a $4.4B deal (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-13 Insurance

JD.com reports Q2 revenue down 2.9% YoY to ~$51.4B and net income of ~$1.1B, above ~$964M est., driven by JD Retail profitability and narrowing food losses (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 Retail

SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$3B, net profit up 3x+ to ~$479.2M, above ~$283.1M est., and a 25.3% gross margin, driven by strong mature-node orders (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-13

VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13

CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 China IPO Tencent Shanghai

Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 China Microsoft

Amsterdam-based Adyen reports H1 2026 net revenue up 19% YoY to €1.3B, processed volumes up 24% YoY to €803.8B, and EBITDA of €641.5M; ADYEN.AS rises 12%+ (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-13

Sources: Anthropic investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation after an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-13 IPO

Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind CEO (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-13 Trump AI

DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks at much lower prices, costing $0.44/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-13

Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 Australia Instagram Ban

In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth (www.counterpointresearch.com)
2026-8-13 AI

A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 India AI Robot

Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13

Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 43% YoY to $26.94B, its highest quarterly revenue growth in five years, as AI-related revenue rose 60% YoY to $9.3B, 35% of total (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 AI Lenovo

Counterpoint: China's YMTC accounted for 14% of NAND flash shipments in Q2, behind Samsung's 25% and SK Hynix's 22%, but ahead of Micron and Kioxia (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-13 China Samsung

Over 30 crypto companies, including Coinbase and Block, say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools (www.coindesk.com)
2026-8-13 AI Coinbase

Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra (alextownsend.net)
2026-8-13

Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattack campaign from overseas targeting government agencies last month, but affected agencies successfully “handled” it (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-13 Taiwan AI

Foreign investment in Japan's chip industry has reached ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-13 Japan

Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires (www.ft.com)
2026-8-13 IPO

Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (www.ft.com)
2026-8-13 China Manufacturing

London- and Boston-based Mindgard, which offers automated AI security and red-teaming tools to help organizations secure AI systems, raised a $30M Series A (www.securityweek.com)
2026-8-13 AI London

Rapidly advancing AI tools have created investor uncertainty and fear around the SaaS business model and the private equity and credit built on top of it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 SaaS AI Equity

Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-13 Startup AI

President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private firms to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 Trump U.S.

How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-13 Spain Social Media Refugee

Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech with a16z and others participating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13

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