The Ox Alpha stealth model that sent corners of the AI internet into a spiral of guesswork last week has a name, a parent company, and a spec sheet: it is GLM-5.3-Flash, built by the Chinese AI laboratory Z.ai. The reveal, confirmed by OpenRouter’s own model page, ended roughly six days of public debate over whether the anonymous model was Chinese, American, or something else entirely. The Ox Alpha Stealth Model Mystery and What It Actually Was OpenRouter published the Ox Alpha stealth model on 20 August 2026 at 20:04 UTC under the identifier stealth/ox-alpha. The listing described it as…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
The Waymo 5nm ASIC chip is not just a piece of silicon: it is the clearest sign yet of how deeply the robotaxi company is building inward. Waymo this week disclosed the custom processor at the centre of its sixth-generation self-driving system, and the technical details tell a story about a company reorganising itself around the economics of scale.Inside the Waymo 5nm ASIC ChipThe chip was described in a company blog post co-authored by VP of Engineering Satish Jeyachandran and Compute Lead Daniel Rosenband. Their job for the processor: to ‘process, fuse, and run advanced neural networks on raw sensor…
The Flock Safety surveillance backlash has entered a new phase, with the company’s chief executive making the media rounds even as a clutch of bipartisan bills in Congress threatens to choke off the business model that made it one of America’s fastest-growing public-safety technology firms. Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley has been arguing for what he calls balance. ‘When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritising the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritise as a country is compromise,’ he told Fox News recently. ‘How do we have our safety, and how do we…
Three of the highest-ranked Wall Street analyst picks this week share a common thread: each company sits directly in the path of AI-driven demand, and each has a catalyst the market has not fully priced. CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, and SanDisk earned buy ratings or price-target upgrades from analysts ranked in the top 0.2% of more than 12,400 professionals tracked by TipRanks. CrowdStrike Delivers, Then Beats Expectations Truist analyst Junaid Siddiqui had already raised his price target on CrowdStrike (CRWD) to $245 from $187.50 ahead of the company’s fiscal second-quarter results, citing Falcon Flex momentum and healthy large-deal pipelines. The numbers…
The Flipkart Minutes quick commerce service has quietly become one of India’s most consequential delivery operations, processing between 1.1 million and 1.2 million orders a day and narrowing the distance to Swiggy’s Instamart, which handles roughly 1.4 million daily orders. When Minutes launched in August 2024, its order volumes sat at around 390,000 to 400,000 per day. The sprint since then has been steep. How Flipkart Minutes Is Closing the Quick Commerce Gap The infrastructure behind that growth is hard to miss. Minutes now operates between 1,020 and 1,050 micro-fulfilment centres, up from around 600 in January and roughly 340…
OpenAI SB 53 amendments are now something the company is actively championing, a sharp reversal from its earlier opposition to the California law it once lobbied against. In a LinkedIn post from its global affairs team, OpenAI called for the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act to be expanded, arguing that the incidents of recent months have exposed gaps the existing text does not cover. The company’s specific requests: mandatory monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation for potential serious incidents, stronger cybersecurity protections across the model-development lifecycle, and, per Engadget, an explicit prohibition on frontier models taking unauthorised…
Evidence is mounting that Buffett calling Berkshire shots on equities is not simply a transitional footnote but the defining feature of how the world’s most-watched investment portfolio is still being managed. The latest read of Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F filing, covering the quarter ended 30 June 2026, makes the division of labour clearer than it appeared a fortnight ago. Two weeks back, when Berkshire reported its cash pile had fallen for the first time since early 2022, the narrative seemed straightforward: new chief executive Greg Abel was putting money to work. The Q2 13F, filed on 14 August 2026 and disclosing…
The Outer Biosciences skin AI platform feeds on something no large language model can scrape from the internet: living human tissue, kept functional outside the body for up to a month, generating biological data that simply did not exist before. The company emerged from near-total public silence this week, and the details it is sharing are worth pausing on. Michael Polansky, the startup’s chief executive, is better known in tabloid pages as the partner of Lady Gaga than in biotech circles. That is about to change. Polansky co-founded Outer Biosciences alongside chief scientist Kyung-Jin Jang, chief technology officer Chris Hinojosa,…
Ray Dalio’s debt crisis warning landed on Friday with the force of a diagnosis: the United States, he wrote, is approaching an inflection point, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s newly expanded bond buyback programme is one more signal of how close the edge may be. Dalio, the 77-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, published his assessment in a post on his Substack, framing Bessent’s move not as a stabilising measure but as evidence that the U.S. fiscal position is deteriorating faster than Washington acknowledges. ‘I am confident that the government’s financial condition is at an inflection point,’ he wrote. ‘If this…
The Kalshi bitcoin year-end forecast tells a story of cautious stasis: traders on the prediction market platform see the cryptocurrency finishing 2026 at around $75,000, barely a haircut from where it was trading this week after a rally of more than 20%. Bitcoin climbed to levels not seen since May, last changing hands above $77,000. Yet the collective wisdom of Kalshi’s market put the year-end price at roughly the same place, based on an average of contracts asking traders to bet on which $5,000 price range bitcoin will occupy at midnight on 1 January 2027. The rally itself had already…
