• August 20, 2026
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Samsung Plans Over $72 Billion Shareholder Return Program

For decades, investors in Samsung Electronics groused about the same thing: the company hoarded cash, paid modest dividends and seemed allergic to the kind of buybacks that U.S. tech giants…

  • August 20, 2026
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Stripe to Buy AI Model Platform OpenRouter for About $7.5 Billion

A startup founded in 2023 that routes developers’ AI requests across hundreds of models is being absorbed into the payment company that already processes much of the internet’s commerce. Stripe…

  • August 20, 2026
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AI Chip Startup Fractile in Talks at $6.5 Billion Valuation

Anthropic wants to buy about $250 million of chips from a London startup most people have never heard of. That order is now at the center of one of the…

  • August 20, 2026
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OpenAI Works to Restore ChatGPT Signup and Login

For several hours on Aug. 20, the front door to the world’s most popular AI chatbot was locked. Users began reporting problems with ChatGPT’s registration and login systems in the…

  • August 20, 2026
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Nvidia in Talks to Back AI Data Supplier Mercor

The training data that powers Nvidia’s open-source model ambitions may soon have a new financial backer: Nvidia itself. The chip maker is in talks to invest in Mercor, an AI…

  • August 20, 2026
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Nebius Plans $4.5 Billion Convertible Bond Sale

Nebius, the AI cloud company led by Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, is borrowing against its own stock to build data centers it says it cannot build fast enough. The company…

  • August 20, 2026
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Marvell and Google Expand Custom-Chip Pact

The warrant is dated Aug. 18: Google may buy up to 58.97 million shares of Marvell Technology at $206.58 each, a document that ties the chip maker’s stock to the…

  • August 20, 2026
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Etched Raises $700 Million at $21 Billion Valuation

The first rack of Etched computers sits in a Jane Street data center, running inference workloads for the trading firm that just led the AI chip startup’s latest funding round.…

  • August 20, 2026
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Amex GBT Agrees to $6.3 Billion Take-Private by Long Lake

Four years after riding a blank-check boom onto the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest corporate travel company is heading back into private hands. Long Lake Management agreed to…

  • August 19, 2026
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Maryland’s Digital Ad Tax Falls in Court, Handing Google and Apple Refunds

Maryland’s tax court ruled Tuesday that the state’s digital advertising tax is invalid, ordering refunds for the companies that paid it, including Apple, Google and the streaming service Peacock. The…