The Stateside Beat — Thursday, August 13, 2026 (Evening Wrap)

The FDA approved Bristol Myers Squibb's combination treatment for patients with a rare form of blood cancer whose illness had relapsed or not responded to other treatments.

The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination dropped a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena in an investigation of Nike's treatment of white employees.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by Trump administration officials, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, to open a new manufacturing facility in Houston.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said two of its vessels were attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday evening, with no injuries reported.

Leaders from some of Australia's biggest companies, including major banks Macquarie Group and Westpac, will face questioning from lawmakers as part of a probe into accounting firm KPMG.

BP, in partnership with the UAE's XRG and a unit of Qatar's UCC Holding, secured a license to explore and develop the second phase of Venezuela's offshore Loran gas field.

U.S. stocks rose and the S&P 500 closed at a record high after a report of moderated wholesale inflation eased interest-rate fears.

Private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday, which has a market value of about $43 billion, in a deal that would rank among the largest software buyouts in history.

Artificial-intelligence adoption continued to drive demand for the semiconductor maker's solutions, pushing profit and revenue higher.

OpenAI's new mode aims to make ChatGPT dramatically quicker on the uptake, boosting response speed for the GPT 5.6 Sol model.

Google rolled out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model putting coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade.

The data and AI company settled on a $5 billion raise at a $190 billion valuation in a game late-stage startups must play when raising money.