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Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role — THE SCOOP — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold — For years, Demis Hassabis was the only executive to oversee a US technology giant's artificial intelligence development from outside the country.
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X: @mikeisaac and @suchenzang
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OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives, discovery could expose sensitive details about both companies' hiring, hardware development and data-security practices.
More: Quartz, Reuters, and ExchangeWire.com
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration — A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company …
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Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @simonwillison.net, and @maoltuile
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs — Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) lands at 54, up 3 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (51) and 11 points from Muse Spark 1.0 (43, April).
More: Reuters, Verdict, and Artificial Analysis
X: @cline, @kunchenguid, @valsai, @chamath, @rihardjarc, @valsai, @louszbd, and @millionint
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks — At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies …
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Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @dell, and @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, r/aiwars, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/accelerate, and r/agi
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DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; V4 Flash currently costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens — DeepSeek plans to implement a significant price increase across its AI services, an unusual shift from the disruptive Chinese player that has put pressure on US and domestic rivals.
More: Spyglass, The Information, Wccftech, and RuntimeWire
X: @thdxr, @gpuhell, @cheatyyyy, @zephyr_z9, @teortaxestex, @firstadopter, @lisaabramowicz1, @ruima, and @stevehou
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET — The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic — Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Silicon Republic, and The Rundown AI
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SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8B to build Terafab in Grimes County, Texas; combined demand from SpaceX and Tesla is forecast to top 1 TW — Elon Musk's SpaceX <SPCX.O> and Tesla <TSLA.O> will initially invest $16.8 billion to build Terafab, an advanced AI semiconductor complex … | Lawfare: |
Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 — A halt in Grokipedia's edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Mashable, Nieman Lab, and Boing Boing
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 — China's Yushu Technology Co., known as Unitree Robotics, is seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| Victoria Turk / Wired: |
Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model — Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data.
More: Google DeepMind, GitHub, Nature, RuntimeWire, and New Scientist
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps — Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through …
More: Cloudflare, Decrypt, Neowin, Tech Times, Help Net Security, Techstrong.ai, and Phoronix
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Chainalysis: violent crypto attacks stole $30M+ in H1 2026, on track to exceed 2025's $58M total; France is the primary hotspot with 30 publicly known cases — Quick Take — Violent criminals have robbed crypto holders of more than $30 million through mid-2026, putting the year on pace …
More: Chainalysis, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| Wired: |
A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months — For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers' servers.
More: Risky Business. X: @wired. Bluesky: @dell and @agreenberg
Forums: r/craftofintelligence and r/pwnhub
| Jada Jones / ZDNET: |
Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google expanded Ask Google capabilities. — Users can more easily order food, book hotels, and find attractions.
More: The Verge, Thurrott, Google, PCMag, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Android Authority, and Business Wire
| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B — The data-security company still posted growth in the second quarter, but shared a full-year sales outlook that was below Wall Street estimates
More: Benzinga, Finimize, Datadog, StockStory, and Barron's Online
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation — The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product after starting the role in July 2025, saying “running this app is a 24/7 job”, and will continue as an adviser — Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk's social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role.
More: The Verge, The American Bazaar, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, The Hans India, The Tech Buzz, and RuntimeWire
X: @benjitaylor, @uncledoomer, @nikitabier, @taylorlorenz, @sprocketguys, @beeple, @vlonepredator, @nikitabier, @antunes1, @toly, @schizo_freq, @kylezaragoza, @levelsio, @singhai, @bonegpt, @joshelman, @scobleizer, @elonmusk, @nikitabier, @nicksortor, and @nikitabier. Bluesky: @bjkeefe. Mastodon: @Fulk_It@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia is considering lower-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to potential issues securing enough HBM, and has tested at least three versions — Nvidia is weighing a radical step to deal with a shortage of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips: using less of it than planned … | The Information: |
Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B — Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the discussion.
| Nate Wolf / Barron's Online: |
Western Digital falls 10%+ after issuing guidance that didn't quite match those of Seagate; Q4 revenue rose 44% YoY to $3.75B, above a $3.7B estimate — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — Western Digital stock tumbled Thursday … | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding — Lumilens, which makes optical gear to speed up data flowing between AI servers, is valued at $5.5 billion in new funding
More: FinSMEs, Home Main, Reuters, and RuntimeWire
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding — Alfred Lin and Pat Grady are repositioning the 54-year-old firm for a world dominated by artificial intelligence.
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