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August 4, 2026, 12:35 AM
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Maria Curi / Axios:
The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework  —  The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models …
The Information:
Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework  —  The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY'26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 14%+ after hours  —  Palantir topped second-quarter earnings estimates on Monday and said commercial revenue more than doubled from a year ago.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, vs. $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Snap reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for the second quarter and issued a forecast for the current period that topped analysts' estimates.
Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg:
Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple; its stock closed up 4.58% on Monday  —  Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, becoming only the fifth company to ever reach the milestone.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG  —  Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers …
The Verge:
Leaked doc: Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, and the games will be able to run on its next-gen Project Helix console, “Xbox PCs”, and handhelds  —  The disc to digital program seems like it's close to launching, too.
The Texas Tribune:
Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand  —  On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data  —  iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data
Bloomberg:
Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation  —  Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume.
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict EU market access, fine model providers, and more  —  The European Union gained new powers to inspect AI models, restrict EU market access and fine model providers …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash  —  BioCatch uses artificial intelligence to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it “briefly removed Telegram from the App Store” over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram “promptly removed the content and banned the user”  —  Update: 11:00 p.m. ET: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said: … Apple's statement came about 20 minutes after access to the app was restored.
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max's and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.

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From Mediagazer

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to a record-setting $360M in North America, beating Avengers: Endgame's $357M; globally, it hit $932M, second to Endgame

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Imax reaches its highest-grossing month ever with $257M globally in July, 47% above its previous record; The Odyssey has generated $221M globally in Imax so far

CNBC:
Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, vs. $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ after hours

More News

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas
Reuters:
India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, changes that Apple had lobbied for
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation

Earlier Picks

James Hunt / The Block:
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M from July 27 to August 2, reducing its holdings to 842,138, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices
Axios:
Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Artificial Analysis estimates DeepSeek V4-Flash's average cost at $0.03 per test, compared with Kimi K3's $0.86, GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86, and Claude Fable 5's $3.15
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism for using ChatGPT to research a script, and says interacting with LLMs “is not healthy for me or good for the world”
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February
Washington Post:
An analysis of US police and court records: authorities charged or accused 50+ officers of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking
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