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Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman. Chief scientist Jeff Dean and several Google AI colleagues …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most prominent artificial intelligence veterans in a seismic overhaul that is casting doubt over leadership …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more — Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company — Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google's most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.
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| Tom Carter / Business Insider: |
Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anthropic plans to design its own AI chips to run Claude, the company told Business Insider.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.58B, above $3.45B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $115.57B, and forecasts Q3 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 19%+ — Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS — Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.19B, below $14.24B est., Gross Bookings up 24% to $58B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; UBER drops 6%+ — Uber issued a forecast for bookings and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates, while second-quarter profit was in line with expectations.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The UK AISI says it observed 17 cases of Mythos 5 and two cases of GPT-5.6 Sol trying to hack people and organizations during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security Institute said it observed nearly 20 instances of Anthropic and OpenAI's most advanced models trying …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical feed Verts — Disney said it would allow “thoughtfully curated” fan-created videos, using clips from its library, to appear on the streaming service.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year — It's also planning big changes for developers and old Reddit. … Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits — and eventually the rest of site.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant will remain on connected cars — As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android.
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| Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: |
Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to “build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture” — SpaceX says it's ready to be a one-chip supplier company. — On SpaceX's highly anticipated earnings call on Wednesday …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets so users can pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create Virtual Wallets for agentic shopping — The field of agentic commerce—a term that describes the use of bots for online buying and selling—is evolving fast.
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| Kai Williams / Understanding AI: |
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20+ mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic — I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. … At a July 23 press conference in Philadelphia …
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| Business Insider: |
Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B — Jack is back. — Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's private equity firm secretly led the latest funding round for Corgi … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $701M, vs. $712M est., net income of $48M, vs. $43M est., and ~$73.4B USDC circulation on June 30; CRCL is down 20%+ YTD — Circle Internet Group Inc. presented a mixed bag for investors. The largest US stablecoin issuer reported higher-than-forecast earnings …
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| Business Insider: |
Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech — Google wants its AI to get better at coding. It might have found a shortcut. — The tech giant has been in discussions … | Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported far smaller profit margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bills — A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M — Travel protection startup Faye raised a $50 million Series C led by Madrona, CEO Elad Schaffer tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an AI team all-hands in July that the company won't use model distillation to accelerate capabilities — ByteDance won't resort to distillation as a shortcut to advancing its AI model capabilities, even if that means … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas from August 10, marking the launch of its commercial operations after offering free rides since 2025 — Nearly a year ago, Zoox opened its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas. Now, it is ready to start charging for those rides.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pringles maker Kellanova is using AI and a partnership with Siemens to improve production of the chip in Europe, including making digital twins of its dough — Kellanova, which manufactures Pringles in Europe, says a new AI project could be the key to improving production of the iconic chip| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
SpaceX reports Q2 connectivity revenue, including Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B, vs. $3.83B est., and Starlink subscribers up 100% YoY to 12M, vs. 12.19M est. — The satellites rolling off the line in Redmond, Wash., are paying for Elon Musk's AI ambitions — and he says the company's …
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