Trendly digest — 2026-08-03
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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Trump Pushes for New Iran Negotiations DOJ Ends Controversial Anti-Weaponization Fund Senate Unveils Short-Term Funding Bill Chip Stocks in Focus After July Selloff U.S. and Japan Intervene to Support Yen Markets Brace for Key U.S. Jobs Report AstraZeneca Explores Bristol-Myers…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bond yields and trade policy may be in play.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Italy’s Prysmian has reached an all-cash deal to buy electrical manufacturing company Atkore Inc. Prysmian said it’s paying $95 per share in an offer that values the company at an enterprise value of about $3.8 billion. Prysmian CEO Massimo Battaini discusses the deal on…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Clarkson Plc expects its full year performance to be “materially ahead of market expectations” after the shipbroker delivered a record first-half performance boosted by “exceptional volatility” caused by the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said interest rates remain well positioned as inflation should ease during the second half of the year.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The yen’s weakness has become a growing issue for Japan’s policymakers, given its role in driving up import prices and household living costs. It’s also become a worry for the US.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “SpaceX has operated as a private company for more than two decades. On August 4, that changes. The company reports Q2 2026 results after market close, its first earnings release since listing on the Nasdaq in June. Wall Street will see the actual financials behind one of the…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The US has used plenty of sticks in an attempt to slow China’s progress in AI.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"A jacket that's just enough to keep the chill off," one shopper said.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “While airlines are currently struggling with the spike in jet fuel prices caused by the war in Iran, the situation is often even more dire for travel agencies and companies selling various package holidays and organized tours. The string of family-owned travel agency collapses…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Bank of America (BAC) just told clients which software stock it wants to own going into earnings season. The pick is Datadog (DDOG), the cloud monitoring company that reports second-quarter results on August 6. BofA named Datadog its top software pick and kept its Buy rating…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Denmark will step up its military presence around the Faroe Islands, widening Copenhagen’s push to bolster Arctic defenses as geopolitical tensions in the region continue to rise.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The US government could ramp up pressure for Tokyo to pay more for American bases on Japanese soil.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has secured fresh funding at roughly four times its previous valuation, in a sign of sustained enthusiasm for companies involved in the artificial intelligence boom.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Since the start of the summer, Argentine budget airline Flybondi has faced severe operational challenges as rumors of a potential future bankruptcy continue to swirl. While once the second-largest airline in the country after state-owned flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Iran suggested negotiations to get more ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz are making progress. Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said discussions between the Islamic Republic and Oman over management of the strait are in the final stages. This comes after US President…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Apple is bringing AI to Siri this fall. Here's how it compares with ChatGPT on writing, web search, personal data and productivity. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “When Apple Inc. releases Siri AI this fall in iOS 27, it will instantly become the world’s most widely distributed artificial intelligence chatbot.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Massachusetts is often portrayed as an expensive place to retire. Housing costs are high, property-tax bills can be substantial, and affluent residents may face both the state’s income surtax and an estate tax. But the tax picture is more complicated than the reputation…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"I was out for about five hours and had no problems at all in this stylish flip-flop."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Carole Nakhle, Crystol Energy chief executive officer, discusses market moves as oil slumped after US President Donald Trump called off a planned attack on Iran. "At this stage, the market is telling us also there is some cautious optimism to expect in the current situation,"…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “One of the critical suppliers in the semiconductor industry, Germany’s Zeiss Group, pushed back on investor concerns about bottlenecks in the AI supply chain and said it’s confident it has the capacity to handle booming demand.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Spain’s foreign minister said nearly everyone who illegally crossed into the African enclave of Ceuta last week has left, pledging to return “every last” person to Morocco.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Myanmar’s military-backed government released photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi meeting a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, a rare glimpse of the former leader since her detention in a 2021 coup.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Italy’s Prysmian SpA agreed to buy electrical parts manufacturer Atkore Inc. in an all-cash deal, extending a US growth drive focused on the data-center buildout.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Stocks and bonds rose as the latest sign of easing tensions between the US and Iran pushed oil prices lower, allaying concerns about faster inflation.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Investors who blacklist Space Exploration Technologies Corp. out of governance qualms are too hung up on box-checking and risk depriving themselves of long-term financial gains, according to Aniket Shah of Jefferies.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “US and Japanese officials warned investors they’re determined to keep defending the yen after jolting currency markets with their first joint intervention in 15 years.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 +…”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “TencentDB Agent Memory is a team-level memory hub for AI Agents — turning conversations, docs, and code into four reusable memory assets (Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki, Code-Graph) that are governed, shared, and equipped across agents and frameworks.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!”
Excerpt from GitHub: “21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets”
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