Tech & AI Daily — Thursday, August 13, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Aug 13, 2026 · 11m

SOXL surged 5.17% as in-line July CPI data and blowout AI earnings from CoreWeave and Supermicro turbo-charged semiconductor ETFs; QQQ, VGT, and VUG also rose. • DeepSeek released V4 Pro 0813, its latest flagship update, igniting a benchmark debate on Hacker News and signaling another potential cost-performance disruption from China's top open-weight lab. • Alibaba's Qwen team dropped Qwen3.8 — a staggering 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model on Hugging Face — pushing Chinese labs back to the frontier of publicly accessible model weights. • xAI released Grok 4.6 alongside the…