Anthropic is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Stainless, an SDK startup serving Google and OpenAI. The deal could value Stainless at over $300 million according to The Information.
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SpaceX reported Q2 revenue of $7.8 billion, up 92 percent year-over-year, with its former xAI division driving growth through cloud deals while posting a reported 2,013 percent surge in capital expenditure to $15.8 billion. The results offer the first public window into the economics of an AI-scale operation, highlighting both revenue gains and massive infrastructure costs.
Zyxel disclosed CVE-2026-6837, a command injection vulnerability in the export-cgi program of WAX650S firmware through version 7.10(ABRM.4)C0 that lets authenticated administrators execute OS commands. The flaw scores 7.2 on CVSS v3.1 and was published August 3, 2026.
