Tech

A profile of livestream shopping app Whatnot, which added 20M accounts in 2025, facilitated the sale of ~$8B in goods, and is set for $1B+ in revenue in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-5

Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Texas

Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's AMEC for possible use at their Chinese factories, as they hedge against US curbs (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 China Samsung

Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets for users to pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create virtual wallets for agentic shopping (fortune.com)
2026-8-5

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 AI

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue from connectivity, which includes Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B vs. $3.83B est., Starlink subscribers up 100% to 12M vs. 12.19M est. (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-5 SpaceX

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5 AI

House panel report: US telcos connected their systems to data centers in a way that exposed them to vulnerabilities, potentially enabling Salt Typhoon hacks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5

OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations (www.wired.com)
2026-8-5 AI

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company aims to build out ground-based infrastructure to complement its satellite network for “a true mobile service” (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 Mobile SpaceX

Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.9B and an operating loss of $556M, vs. $361M est., due to a $409M data breach fine; CPNG drops 7%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5

EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5

An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 Algorithm

TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5

Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 AI Apple

Match reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $853M, vs. $856.6M est., 13.3M paying users, vs. 13.4M est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 8%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5

Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5 Microsoft

The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5

Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable For $1.28 Billion (slashdot.org)
2026-8-5

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5 SpaceX

Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.15B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, forecasts Q3 revenue in line with estimates; PINS drops 8%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-5

SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-5 AI SpaceX

Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5 AI

A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 Amazon

EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-5 Silver

AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, vs. $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, forecasts Q3 revenue below some estimates; AMD drops 7%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 AMD

Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 Samsung AI

Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max's and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 Alibaba

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 AI SpaceX

Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Microsoft

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