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Pfizer Raises 2026 Outlook on Eliquis Surge but Patent Cliff Looms Large

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 16:02

Pfizer delivered another quarter of solid commercial execution. On August 4 the drugmaker posted second-quarter revenue of $15.03 billion. That topped Wall Street forecasts by a healthy margin. Adjusted earnings per share came in at 77 cents, beating expectations of 68 cents. Yet the headline number that moved markets was the decision to lift the low end of full-year 2026 revenue guidance.

AI Agents Enroll in College: How Autonomous Software Is Completing Entire Online Degrees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:52

Students once asked chatbots for essay help. Now they hand over login credentials and walk away. Autonomous AI agents log into learning management systems, watch recorded lectures, answer quiz questions, draft papers and even post comments in discussion forums. They do it all without the student lifting a finger.

Claude’s Invisible Marks: How Anthropic Is Embedding AI Signals in Plain Text

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:42

Text flows from large language models one token at a time. Each choice carries probabilities shaped by training data and the prompt at hand. Most readers see only the finished sentence. A handful of researchers and now major labs see something else: a pattern hidden inside those choices.

OpenAI Turns to Cybersecurity Sales Veteran to Supercharge Enterprise AI Revenue

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:32

OpenAI just named Dali Rajic its new chief revenue officer. The move comes hours after news broke that his predecessor, Denise Dresser, would step down less than a year into the job. Rajic arrives from Wiz, the cloud security startup Google acquired. His track record selling to boards and CISOs at high-stakes cybersecurity firms now lands at the center of OpenAI’s push into the enterprise.

Brazil Fires Back at U.S. Tariffs With Reciprocity Law, Testing Limits of Trump’s Trade Pressure

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:22

Brasilia didn’t wait long. On August 13, the Brazilian government formally opened a process that could trigger reciprocal measures against the United States. The move responds directly to 25% tariffs Washington slapped on select Brazilian goods last month. Officials called those duties unjustified and arbitrary.
Brazil’s Reciprocity Law Gains New Teeth

Google’s Pixel 11 Price Hikes Expose AI’s Heavy Toll on Smartphone Costs

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:12

Google just delivered a dose of reality to Pixel fans. The new Pixel 11 series starts at $899. That’s $100 more than the Pixel 10. The Pro jumps to $1,099. The Pro XL hits $1,299. Even the Pro Fold climbs to $1,899. Blame it on a memory crunch no one saw coming this hard.

New York City Turns Up Heat on Prediction Markets With Probe Into Deceptive Ads and Young Users

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:02

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin fired off letters on August 11 to four prediction-market operators. The targets: Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini Titan. Each received dozens of detailed questions about marketing tactics, user demographics and compliance with local consumer-protection rules. The inquiry lands amid a national tug-of-war over who gets to oversee these fast-growing platforms.

Prometheus Rises Over Starbase: SpaceX’s Texas Outpost Draws Giant Statues, Lawsuits and Satire

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 14:42

Starbase, Texas, hardly looks like the seat of a new industrial empire. Yet here, amid the scrubland near the Mexican border, SpaceX has built a company town that now hosts both the most advanced rocket factory on Earth and an odd collection of monuments. One towers 50 feet high. Another exists mostly as an online fundraiser laced with profanity. A third, already defaced once, stands as a cartoonish tribute to the man who started it all.

Robinhood Brings YC Startups to the Masses With Public Fund

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 14:32

Robinhood Markets has taken its biggest step yet to open private company investing to everyday users. The brokerage just launched Robinhood Ventures Fund II. This closed-end fund trades on the NYSE under ticker RVII. It targets early-stage startups, many of them from Y Combinator.

Uber to Deploy 2,000 Pony.ai Robotaxis Across UK, France and Netherlands From 2026

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 14:22

Uber has announced a significant expansion of its autonomous vehicle ambitions through a new partnership with Chinese self-driving technology company Pony.ai. The collaboration will bring 2,000 robotaxis to European cities starting in 2026, marking one of the largest commitments yet for commercial autonomous ride-hailing services on the continent.