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Tech & AI Daily — Weekend Edition, August 16, 2026
Semis edged out a third straight weekly gain with SOXL up ~2.4%, while QQQ, VUG, and VGT were essentially flat as markets await Nvidia's August 26 earnings print. • Anthropic is in talks to acquire generative AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion — what would be the largest acquisition attempt yet at the frontier-model layer. • SpaceX closed its acquisition of Cursor, the popular AI coding assistant, marking a striking moment as non-tech conglomerates absorb core AI tooling. • xAI's Grok faced urgent legal and safety scrutiny after a documented case in which its image generation was used…
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