Stripe unveiled 288 new products at Stripe Sessions 2026, including Link wallets for AI agents and stablecoin-powered streaming payments, positioning AI agents as economic participants rather than cos…
ByteDance signed a memorandum of understanding with the Motion Picture Association on August 17, marking the first formal copyright agreement between Hollywood's trade group and an AI company. The dea…
A VentureBeat Pulse survey published in July 2026 found that 68% of enterprises traced at least one confident-but-wrong AI agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context over the prior six m…
Anthropic, the maker of the AI model Claude, is reportedly planning a $2 trillion initial public offering (IPO), contingent on projected revenues of $190 billion to $200 billion by 2028, up from a cur…
Public.com has launched the first marketplace for AI agents that automate portfolio trading, allowing users to build, deploy, and share agents using plain English prompts across stocks, ETFs, options,…
James Dacombe, a 25-year-old high school dropout from Harrogate, has become Europe's youngest self-made billionaire after his AI chip startup Olix tripled in value since February, reaching a $3.3 bill…
Netlist, a memory technology firm trading on the OTCQB under ticker NLST, filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission on August 12 alleging that Micron Technology, Super Micro Compute…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude model, reported AI revenue growth of nearly 1,500%, with Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, more than 14 times the same quarter last year. The company pr…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing startup, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, which comes three months after OpenRouter raised $113 million in a Se…
Micron Technology and SanDisk shares climbed 7-9% in July 2026 trading sessions, recovering after a correction, as renewed investor confidence in AI infrastructure spending and analyst upgrades from B…
Crypto derivatives markets are pricing Anthropic at roughly $1.8 trillion, an 88% premium over the $965 billion post-money valuation from its Series H round in May 2026, according to perpetual futures…
OpenAI has rolled out a new 'Share prompt' feature in the ChatGPT web app, allowing users to generate shareable links for individual prompts that pre-load into the composer when opened. The feature, w…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested public comment on derivatives tied to computing capacity, treating GPU power like a commodity. CME Group and Silicon Data plan to launch G…
Synchrony Financial has not confirmed any partnership with OpenAI to integrate its financing into ChatGPT shopping, according to research cited by the article. OpenAI launched its Agentic Commerce Pro…
Anthropic reported Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, a 14-fold jump from $787 million a year earlier, boosting tech stocks as Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.5% on August 17. The AI company behind Cl…
OpenAI and Anthropic are restricting access to their most advanced models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, amid U.S. regulatory pressure, according to a report.…
Arm Holdings' market capitalization surpassed $300 billion in May 2026, peaking at $317 billion on May 21 before settling around $298 billion by mid-August, boosting its acquisition potential in the A…
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management sold approximately 95% of its Alphabet position during Q1 2026, while adding 1,844,157 Amazon shares and opening a new $2.4 billion Microsoft stake, ma…
A Wall Street Journal analysis found that nine major technology companies hold approximately $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure, roughly five t…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies purchased an additional 9,926 ETH over the past week, bringing its total Ethereum holdings to approximately 5.8 million ETH, or 4.8% of the total supply, nearing its 5% …