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Costco Wholesale Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, Net Income, and Diluted EPS on Both the Quarter and the Eight-Month Year-to-Date Windows
COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEW filed the periodic report summarised below from its SEC evidence. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax was $207,431,000,000 for the eight-month period ended May 10, 2026, up from $189,079,000,000 a year earlier. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $6,228,000,000 for the eight-month period ended May 10, 2026, up from $5,489,000,000 a year earlier. Operating Income (Loss) was $7,884,000,000 for the eight-month period ended May 10, 2026, up from $7,042,000,000 a year earlier. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $14.01 per diluted share for the eight-month period ended May 10, 2026, up from $12.34 per diluted share a year earlier. Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities was -$2,175,000,000 for the eight-month period ended May 10, 2026, up from -$2,182,000,000 a year earlier.
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ConocoPhillips Interim Filing Shows Higher Revenue, Net Income, and EPS on Both the Three-Month and Six-Month Year-to-Date Views
CONOCOPHILLIPS filed the periodic report summarised below from its SEC evidence. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax was $31,588,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $27,100,000,000 a year earlier. Revenues was $34,922,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $30,521,000,000 a year earlier. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $6,114,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $4,820,000,000 a year earlier. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $5 per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $3.79 per diluted share a year earlier. Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities was -$5,356,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from -$5,620,000,000 a year earlier.
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Centene Posts Higher Revenue and a Loss-to-Profit Swing on the Bottom Line for the Three-Month Reporting Period, with Year-to-Date Profitability Also Improving
CENTENE CORP filed the periodic report summarised below from its SEC evidence. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $1,091,000,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026, up from -$253,000,000 a year earlier, swinging from a prior-year loss to a profit. Operating Income (Loss) was $1,198,000,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026, up from -$458,000,000 a year earlier, swinging from a prior-year loss to a profit. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $2.19 per diluted share for the three months ended June 30, 2026, up from -$0.51 per diluted share a year earlier, swinging from a prior-year loss to a profit.
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CMS Energy Reports Softer Bottom Line Against Higher Contract Revenue in period-ended-2026-06-30 10-Q Filing
CMS ENERGY CORP filed the periodic report summarised below from its SEC evidence. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax was $4,483,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $4,196,000,000 a year earlier. Revenues was $4,559,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $4,285,000,000 a year earlier. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $460,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, down from $505,000,000 a year earlier. Operating Income (Loss) was $754,000,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, down from $811,000,000 a year earlier. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $1.47 per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2026, down from $1.67 per diluted share a year earlier.
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CME Group Posts Higher Revenue, Net Income, and Diluted EPS Year-Over-Year in Interim Filing, With Mixed Operating-Income Signal
CME GROUP INC. filed the periodic report summarised below from its SEC evidence. Revenues was $3,586,300,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $3,334,300,000 a year earlier. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent was $2,196,100,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $1,981,300,000 a year earlier. Operating Income (Loss) was $2,416,800,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $2,237,300,000 a year earlier. Earnings Per Share, Diluted was $6.06 per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2026, up from $5.43 per diluted share a year earlier. Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities was -$5,974,800,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026, down from $40,210,600,000 a year earlier.
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AI audio tools, fingerprinting hacks, and podcast ad-tech reshape creator workflows on August 20, 2026
Adobe rolled out AI tools that generate instrumental music and speech with a universal license, allowing creators to ship soundtracks without clearing samples. Security researchers documented AliExpress using WebAudio fingerprinting to keep multipoint Bluetooth headphones active, a workaround with broader browser privacy implications. Separately, podcast ad-tech saw a new tool for publishers, while production hardware and effects kept moving.
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August 21, 2026 Daily Fortune: Dingmao Day in the Fire Horse Under Hexagram 22 With a Three-Cup Tarot Spread
The Chinese lunar calendar places August 21, 2026 in lunar Month 7, Day 9 of the Fire Horse year, with a Dingmao day pillar and the Sun still in Leo. The Plum Blossom daily cast draws Hexagram 22, Grace, Mountain over Fire, moving on line three into Hexagram 27, Nourishment, Mountain over Thunder. A three-card tarot spread pairs a reversed Eight of Cups with the upright Seven of Cups and the upright Eight of Pentacles, against the backdrop of an approaching Pisces full moon lunar eclipse.
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Google Chat adds Gemini assistant as Slack launches agent coding channels and Calendly enters meeting notes
On August 20, 2026, Google Chat announced Ask Gemini in Chat for August 26, 2026, adding a unified command line across Gmail, Drive, and Calendar, while Slack introduced Slack Code channels where teams review agent-generated diffs in chat. Calendly confirmed a meeting note-taking feature plus an AI assistant named Callie, and Google also rolled out granular space creation restrictions and a Room Display mode for Meet on shared screens.
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Adobe pushes Firefly into full audio stack as MIH opens AI music patent portfolio to Udio and GRAI
On August 20, 2026, Adobe moved its Firefly audio suite into general availability, packaging commercially safe music, speech and sound-effect generation inside one creative AI studio alongside a free AI Assistant. The same day, Music IP Holdings unveiled a patent portfolio and license for AI music creation, with Udio and GRAI named as the first technology-company adopters.
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Spectre defenses, supply-chain incident, and WordPress RCE shape encoding and crypto news
Cloudflare has published a detailed revisit of remote Spectre attacks against its Workers platform, documenting new attack primitives and the defenses deployed across 2024 and 2025. A supply-chain compromise hit the Rust arrayref crate, while a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin opened sites to remote code execution via file upload. OpenPubkey SSH was open-sourced to bring single sign-on to SSH, and X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 shipped.