Trendly digest — 2026-08-06
News
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Profit at Blackstone Inc.’s publicly traded private credit fund dropped 94% in the second quarter as the value of holdings declined, though the performance of loans steadied.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The first weekly expiry for India’s BSE Sensex Index under a new closing-price methodology passed largely without disruption, easing concerns after the mechanism’s turbulent debut earlier this week.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A new generation of AI companies believes it can reduce the number of failed drug trials.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “You can even buy these as a set of two if you want them as nightstands.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Investors are bracing for the next potential hit to SpaceX shares when $101 billion worth of stock becomes available for trading on Thursday with the scheduled ending of a lockup agreement restricting insider share sales. Leen Al-Rashdan reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Investors ponder whether the ‘Sell America’ trade is back.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Billy Braddock, regional group president at Huntington Bancshares Inc., discusses the bank's business in Texas after taking over Cadence Bank, the loan business in the state and the adoption of artificial intelligence. He speaks with Bloomberg's Julie Fine. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Polls for three German state elections next month show the tussle between progressive politics and anti-migrant sentiment.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “SoftBank Group Corp. has secured a $10 billion margin loan backed by its stake in US tech giant OpenAI, marking another fundraising milestone in its bet on artificial intelligence.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The wait for an Iran-Oman deal that partially reopens the Strait of Hormuz continued into Thursday morning, after the Islamic Republic said an agreement on proposed shipping lanes was in the final stages.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China launched a formal security review of products sold in the country by US technology firm Palo Alto Networks Inc., ramping up pressure on the company months after accusing it of harboring links to intelligence services.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's soft, warm, and looks great in the bedroom."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum’s approval rating jumped in July as inflation slowed and economic expectations improved.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Ukraine struck two of Russia’s oil refineries overnight, the latest in a flurry of attacks that signal a resumption of the assault on the nation’s fuel-producing industry.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after Pyongyang warned of fresh military steps over Japan’s expanding defense capabilities.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “Drivers who miss turning physical knobs to control their vehicles' thermostats and tune their radios got some confirmation that theirs is the proper position after a viral video showed that new doesn't always mean better. If you have purchased a vehicle in the last decade, you…”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “"A powerful and versatile tablet with unbeatable value."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Erik Wytenus, EMEA head of investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, says robust earnings make it "reasonable to continue to allocate to a healthy degree to the US." He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. On today's show, Commerzbank says a strategy developed together with UniCredit could be beneficial for investors, extending an olive branch to the Italian rival that’s set to take control of it. The…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “SoftBank Group Corp. reported a smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly net income, lifted by a big boost from its stake in Intel Corp. while it awaits an OpenAI listing.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul welcomed Myanmar’s former junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on his first visit to Thailand since becoming a civilian leader, underscoring Bangkok’s push to rebuild its neighbor’s ties with other Southeast Asian nations.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “"Highly recommended."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s biggest phone carrier, boosted its share buyback program by as much as €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in 2026 after raising its free-cash-flow forecast for the year.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “Give your outdoor space a summer refresh with this "budget-friendly patio set."”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “At $14, you'll want to buy multiple.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Global bond and currency investors are debating if it’s time to dust off last year’s ‘Sell America’ trade after a flurry of economic-policy decisions out of Washington over the past two weeks.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Stocks struggled for direction amid weakness in the technology sector, with investors awaiting developments in US-Iran talks and looking ahead to Friday’s key US jobs report.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Oil alternated between modest gains and losses as traders waited for news of an Iran-Oman agreement to partially reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Lightweight loop engineering state kernel for long-running AI agent teams. Agent-loop agnostic across Codex, Claude Code, and other coding agents, with durable goals, quota-aware auto-wake, executable todos, evidence logs, and verifiable handoffs.”
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: “Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.”
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: “Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜”
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