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Intel Sells $15B in Stock — Its First Share Sale Since Going Public in 1971
Intel is raising up to $17.25B in fresh equity to fund AI chip manufacturing, choosing dilution over debt to protect its credit rating. The stock fell 3% on the news.
SpaceX Defies Its Lockup Expiry: A Billion Shares Unlock and the Stock Rises 6% Anyway
Nearly one billion insider and employee shares — about 20% of SpaceX — became eligible for sale on August 6, and the stock climbed 6% instead of falling. A decade of semiannual buybacks meant insiders had no pent-up urge to cash out.
Amazon Is Behind a 7.65 GW Gas Plant in Texas — Set to Be America's Biggest CO2-Emitting Power Station
Amazon is backing the GW Ranch plant in Pecos County: 35 gas turbines generating 7.65 gigawatts for a new AI data center campus, permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That would make it the largest single CO2 source among US power plants.
Moore Threads Plans Hong Kong Listing After Revenue Jumps 147% and Its Stock Soars 420%
China's most-watched homegrown GPU maker approved a Hong Kong Main Board listing after first-half revenue hit RMB 1.74 billion, up 147%. The move rides a $42 billion IPO wave as Chinese chipmakers race to fund their answer to Nvidia.
OpenAI Pauses Work on Astra After It Nears the First-Ever 'Critical' Cyber Risk Rating
OpenAI says it cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model crosses the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold — capable of finding and exploiting zero-days without human help. It is the first time a frontier lab has slowed its own model over cyber capability.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Luna the Free ChatGPT Default — With Unlimited Text Chats
Free and Go users get unlimited text conversations on GPT-5.6 Luna, which OpenAI says produces 62% fewer responses with factual errors than the prior default. Paid tiers get an improved GPT-5.6 Sol with a new reasoning-depth slider.
Anthropic Is Building an In-House Chip Design Team, Paying Up to $485K to Escape the Nvidia Tax
The Claude maker is hiring semiconductor engineers across architecture, design, and verification to co-design custom silicon with its models. The Information reports Anthropic has scouted Samsung as a potential manufacturing partner.
GTA 6 Pre-Orders Hit 'Unprecedented' Levels as Take-Two Posts a $1.39B Quarter
Take-Two reported $1.39 billion in net bookings for the June quarter, with GTA 6 pre-orders open for only its final days. CEO Strauss Zelnick calls demand 'unprecedented and astonishing' ahead of the November 19 launch.
CISA Flags Actively Exploited N-able N-central Flaw After Attackers Breach MSP Customers
CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass in N-able N-central rated CVSS 8.2, is being exploited in the wild and has landed in CISA's KEV catalog. Attackers are using the built-in Take Control feature to pivot from RMM servers into managed endpoints.
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