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SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (techfundingnews.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-8-15 India Uber

Europeans flock to Chinese EVs amid Heat Waves, Iran Crisis (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-15 China Iran

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (www.constellationr.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its “preparedness” team in July (www.ft.com)
2026-8-15 IPO

Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Robot

With Crocodile Moats for Palestinians, Zionism drops its Mask (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-15

A Planet Screaming at Us to Pay Attention (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-15

Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 China

How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-15 AI

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is “not in favor” of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be “other solutions to the memory issue” (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15 China Apple

Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 IPO

How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude's AI-generated text (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Waymo receives approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand across 18 counties, including Sacramento and San Diego (electrek.co)
2026-8-15 California

Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15 Nvidia

Brad Pitt has started drinking again, the bottle doesn't care that he's Brad Pitt (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15

Hundreds evacuated as French wildfires spread (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 France

SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Startup SpaceX

Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15

My Thoughts about those July Retail Sales (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-15 Retail

Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15

The DSA's War on Wealth (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-15

Filing: Nvidia has a nearly $21B stake in SpaceX and a $30B stake in Intel; Nvidia invested as much as $2B in xAI in 2025 and $5B in Intel (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Intel Nvidia SpaceX

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

US hospitals billed $120mn for sex-change procedures on minors – report (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15

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

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