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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC reports Q2 net income up 61% YoY to ~$13.5B, beating est. every quarter since 2021, and raises its 2025 sales growth guidance in USD from mid-20% to 30%  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. raised its outlook for 2025 revenue growth, shoring up investors' confidence in the momentum of the global AI spending spree.
Reuters:
The US House votes to advance three crypto bills following over nine hours of private talks on July 16, a day after President Trump intervened to save the bills  —  The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives cleared key procedural hurdles on crypto legislation on Wednesday …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google says threat actors are breaching fully patched, end-of-life cybersecurity company SonicWall's appliances and stealing sensitive data from organizations  —  Threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by breaching end-of-life appliances made by cybersecurity company SonicWall.
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic rehires Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, who developed Claude Code, just two weeks after they left for more senior roles at Cursor maker Anysphere  —  In a surprising reversal, two leaders of Anthropic's coding product who joined rival Anysphere two weeks ago have returned to Anthropic …
Associated Press:
A Delaware trial for Meta investors' $8B lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  An $8 billion class action investors' lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders — current and former …
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance  —  Meta and Google's AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies.  —  If you're a venture capitalist …
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
In response to a March FOIA request, the US Marshals Service said it held over 28,988 BTC, worth ~$3.4B at current prices, far fewer than previously believed  —  - The U.S. Marshals Service reportedly holds slightly over 28,988 BTC, worth about $3.4 billion, as of March …
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn  —  Lovable, a Swedish artificial intelligence startup that streamlines software development, raised a $200 million fundraising round, making it Europe's newest unicorn.
More: TechCrunch and Forbes
Irina Ivanova / Fortune:
Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from 3% now, with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely  —  Each passenger has their specific price, and AI is helping Delta find it.  — Delta has a long-term strategy to boost …
Nathan Owens / Manufacturing Dive:
Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000+ employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates  —  The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.
Summer Maxwell / SFGATE:
Location sharing apps like Find My, Snap Map, and Life360 remain popular among Gen Z users, despite concerns about their impact on real-world relationships  —  Teens and 20-somethings are embracing location sharing to see where their friends are instantly.  Is that a bad thing?
More: 9to5Mac.  Forums: r/technology
Will Knight / Wired:
Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams  —  The mission?  Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US  —  New rule aims to end vulnerability in communications infrastructure after attack on American telecoms
Elihay Vidal / CTech:
Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date  —  New Remagine Ventures report charts explosive growth and the rise of agentic AI systems.  —  VC  —  Remagine Ventures  —  Generative AI
More: Tech in Asia
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment  —  A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.

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Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are “grave and sometimes preposterous”

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Moneycontrol:
Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Coinbase rolls out the Base App, rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as an “everything app” that combines social networking, mini-apps, chat, payments, and trading

Earlier Picks

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API, adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Crypto exchange BigONE confirms a $27M hack from a hot wallet exploit, plans to repay users, and is working with security firm SlowMist to trace stolen assets
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
NYC-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, acquires Boston-based blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for $100M+
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Google announces a Pixel event for August 20 in NYC, with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and the 4th-gen Pixel Watch expected
Rachyl Jones / Semafor:
AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in preview to help businesses deploy and operate AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and handle other tasks
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google expands its AI-powered business calling feature to all users in the US
Bloomberg:
Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests
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