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AI Coding Startup Lovable Raises $400 Million at $13.3 Billion Valuation

Swedish coding startup Lovable has raised funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, bringing in fresh capital to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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Market’s Momentum Darlings Resurface as Optical Stocks Take Off
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026

Excerpt from Bloomberg: One of the stock market’s favorite momentum plays from earlier this year is re-emerging as rising confidence in artificial intelligence spending sends the shares of optical component makers soaring again.

US Primaries Set Stage For US Midterm Elections
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Establishment Democrats gained a boost ahead of the Midterms after the moderate David Crowley was projected to defeat Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong for the Wisconsin governor primary. Tyler Kendall reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

India Inflation Stays Within Target Band, Supporting RBI Pause
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: India’s inflation was broadly steady in July, holding within the Reserve Bank’s 2%-6% target range and cementing expectations policymakers will keep interest rates unchanged for some time.

MEMX Files to List Prediction Market-Style Bets on Earnings
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Exchange operator MEMX is looking to become the latest financial exchange to compete with prediction markets by offering binary bets on corporate earnings metrics, according to a representative for the company.

Emerging Stocks Rise on Tech as Currency Traders Await US CPI
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Emerging-market stocks rose, led by a rally in Asian chipmakers as upbeat results from AI infrastructure firms revived appetite for tech stocks. Developing-nation currencies were mixed before the publication of US inflation data later in the session.

IEA Says Oil Markets Are Facing a Wider Shortfall
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Global oil inventories will tumble this quarter at more than twice the rate previously estimated, according to the International Energy Agency. Markets face a shortfall of 1.8 million barrels a day as “renewed hostilities and maritime disruptions” in the Middle East undermine a…

Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Who Overhauled Economy, Dies at 98
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Zhu Rongji, who as China’s premier pushed through reforms at state-owned companies that cost tens of millions of workers their jobs, and who helped engineer China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, has died. He was 98.

Wintermute Plans $1 Billion AI Investment to Compete on Wall Street
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Wintermute Trading Ltd. intends to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data center infrastructure over the next five years, as the digital assets market maker looks to diversify into traditional markets following a slump in crypto.

Thailand Finally Wakes Up to Its Gun Problem
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: A deadly school shooting sheds light on weak enforcement and loopholes that have made firearms widely available.

Iran’s Military Pivots to ‘Offensive’ Mode for Next Round of War
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Iran is reorganizing its military to be more agile and aggressive abroad in light of its war with the US and Israel, a sign that it’s positioning for a protracted confrontation even if the current conflict ends.

Tech Investments Boost Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Norway's sovereign wealth fund delivered its strongest quarterly performance in six years, driven by its exposure to major technology companies including Nvidia Corp., Apple Inc., and Microsoft Corp. Additionally, the fund's CEO Nicolai Tangen highlighted the positive impact of…

Wells Fargo sends strong signal on Dick's Sporting Goods
Source: TheStreetAugust 12, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: Dick's Sporting Goods stock (DKS) got a fresh vote of confidence from Wall Street this week, and the timing is unusual. The upgrade landed just two weeks before the company reports earnings that the same analyst expects to look weak. That mismatch is the whole point. Wells Fargo…

Khamenei's Absence Leaves Iran in Power Vacuum
Source: BloombergAugust 12, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has left a vacuum in Iran, with disputes between political factions becoming more pronounced and seeping into the open. Bloomberg's Patrick Sykes explains. Correction: Replaces incorrect image on graphic…

Latest Oil Market News and Analysis for Aug. 12
Source: BloombergAugust 11, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Oil wavered as traders continued to weigh the prospect for a deal to restore energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

Super Micro Gives Sales Outlook That Tops Rosiest Projection
Source: BloombergAugust 11, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Super Micro Computer Inc. gave a revenue forecast for the current quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, a sign the booming artificial intelligence market continues to bolster sales of the company’s servers.

cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.

macro-inc/macro
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM — @-linked together with shared AI memory.

semantica-agi/semantica
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems

stablyai/orca
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS.

msitarzewski/agency-agents
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.

shiyu-coder/Kronos
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets

NanmiCoder/MediaCrawler
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: 小红书笔记 | 评论爬虫、抖音视频 | 评论爬虫、快手视频 | 评论爬虫、B 站视频 | 评论爬虫、微博帖子 | 评论爬虫、百度贴吧帖子 | 百度贴吧评论回复爬虫 | 知乎问答文章|评论爬虫

hugohe3/ppt-master
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: AI turns documents or topics into real, native PowerPoint decks—with native shapes, transitions and animations, data-backed charts and tables on demand, audio narration from speaker notes, and support for your own .pptx templates. · by Hugo He

infiniflow/ragflow
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

paperclipai/paperclip
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

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