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Nvidia Has $21 Billion SpaceX Stake, $30 Billion in Intel Shares

Nvidia Corp. on Friday disclosed a nearly $21 billion stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a $30 billion one in Intel Corp.

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Discontinued Costco member favorite returns to shelves
Source: TheStreetAugust 15, 2026

Excerpt from TheStreet: There's a reason so many people liken shopping at Costco to going on a treasure hunt. When you roam the aisles, you never quite know what you're going to find. Costco's own executive team uses the phrase "treasure hunt" frequently. The company intentionally tries to keep its…

Alibaba AI Models Hit 3 Billion Downloads, Passing Meta, Google
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, eclipsing Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and domestic peers to become the world’s No. 1 artificial-intelligence model.

Hormuz Ship Attacks Mount as US Vows to Cripple Iran’s Economy
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: More ships have come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz as talks to end the war in the Middle East remain stalled and the US readies new economic measures to force Iran to capitulate.

A $72 billion forecast just raised the stakes for the AI trade
Source: TheStreetAugust 15, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: In the midst of all the discussion about whether the artificial intelligence boom is getting too pricey, Super Micro Computer (SMCI) just revealed a number that’s difficult to ignore. The AI server specialist expectsfiscal 2027 revenue of $65 billion to $72 billion, dramatically…

China Film’s Sales Soar as Online Scorn Attracts Curious Viewers
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: A Chinese animated film that generated only about $1,000 in ticket sales in its first 10 days at theaters became a social-media sensation after online ridicule helped propel its box-office revenue into six figures, according to local media reports.

BofA points to crucial Walmart numbers most investors ignore
Source: TheStreetAugust 15, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: Walmart (WMT) reports earnings on Aug. 20, and most of the attention will land on one figure: how much its U.S. stores sold compared with a year ago. That number matters. But Bank of America thinks investors who stop there are watching the wrong part of the business. The firm…

Xi Urges Shift to Prevention in Disaster Management, Xinhua Says
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: President Xi Jinping called for China to shift disaster management toward prevention, saying safety and resilience should be integrated into planning and development, Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

Mastercard Says Brief Australia Payment Disruption Is Resolved
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Mastercard card payments were temporarily declined for some Australian customers on Saturday afternoon because of a global issue that has since been resolved, according to the company.

Malaysia’s Anwar Vows Faster Reforms After Electoral Defeats
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he will speed up the pace of reforms and strengthen an anti-corruption drive as he seeks to rebuild public support after a string of electoral defeats and party departures.

Modi Maps India’s Growth Push With Youth Focus
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi renewed his pledge to make the country a developed nation within two decades in his Independence Day speech. (Source: Bloomberg)

Money Managers Chase €500 Billion Historic German Pension Shift
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: One of the biggest reforms in Germany’s pension system since Chancellor Otto von Bismarck founded it in the late 19th century is about to hand modern fund managers a new empire of cash to deploy.

Burnham’s Strategy Against a Fractured Right Is Coming Into View
Source: BloombergAugust 15, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Addressing a private meeting of Labour’s ministerial advisers this week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he’d moved on from believing in the “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” maxim popularized by Ronald Reagan.

China Protests Japan PM, Defense Minister’s Yasukuni Actions
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: China lodged a formal protest with Japan after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent an offering to Yasukuni shrine and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited it on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Modi Maps India’s Growth Push as He Reaches Out to Students
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his Independence Day speech to renew his pledge to make the country a developed nation within two decades and reach out to younger citizens following widespread student protests.

Japan Defense Minister Visits Yasukuni During China Tensions
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Japan’s defense minister visited a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbors as a symbol of its wartime militarism, drawing condemnation from China following months of tension between the countries.

Amazon’s New User Agreement Seeks to Curb Class-Action Suits
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer, inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago.

Trump Dismisses Concerns Over Conditions Aboard USS Lincoln
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: President Donald Trump downplayed concerns over conditions for sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, amid an uproar from service members’ families as its deployment to the Middle East approaches nine months.

Gas Pipeline for Proposed Oracle Data Center Delayed to 2027
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: A key New Mexico natural gas pipeline project that would supply fuel to power a planned Oracle Corp. artificial intelligence data center has been delayed by nearly six months.

US Military Option for Cuba Fades as Trump Focuses on Sanctions
Source: BloombergAugust 14, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: The Trump administration’s Cuba strategy is increasingly focused on ramping up sanctions and economic pressure rather than deploying military force to break the island’s Communist leadership, people familiar with the matter said.

cordiverse/cordis
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability

cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Source: GitHubdeveloper

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

cursor/plugins
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Cursor plugin specification and official plugins

cactus-compute/needle
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: 14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.

unslothai/unsloth
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models, including Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, DeepSeek-V4, FLUX and more.

MakazhanAlpamys/Soup
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.

github/spec-kit
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

megadose/holehe
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.

altic-dev/FluidVoice
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Fastest and only macOS Dictation app with on-device STT and custom trained AI enhancement model. A local Wispr Flow alternative. ⭐ helps a ton :) Windows & iOS waitlist open. Linux soon.

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