Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - August 11

Hanwha Aerospace

11/08/2026 07:13

Aug 11 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
- Anthropic is meeting with potential investors to shore up confidence in what could be the largest IPO of all time, offering assurances about its rapid pace of growth and strategies it expects will help address a growing public backlash against AI.
     
- South Korean conglomerate Hanwha  012450.KS has made a nonbinding offer valued at more than $1 billion to buy Austal USA ASB.AX, a builder of ships and submarine parts for the U.S. Navy.
     
- Nvidia  NVDA.O reached deals with some of Wall Street’s largest firms such as Blackstone  BX.N and BlackRock  BLK.N to raise massive amounts of capital to help the chip maker’s customers finance the cost of computing power.
     
-  Meatpacker JBS namedWesley Batista Filho as chief executive effective January 2027, while posting an unexpected net loss for the second quarter despite record revenue.
 
 - Sensing-systems maker Teledyne Technologies TDY.N agreed to acquire Varex VREX.O Imaging for $18.90 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion. 
 
 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants companies to notify regulators before adding new ingredients to food as it takes steps to increase oversight of food additives as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" initiative.
 
 

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