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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B, up from $43.5B-$44.5B  —  Netflix posted an earnings beat Thursday, as revenue grew 16% during the second quarter of 2025.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users  —  One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI's San Francisco office.
Dan Shipper / Every:
Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code
Financial Times:
Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments  —  President preparing executive order to allow 401k plans to tap broad pool of alternative assets
Reuters:
The US House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the stablecoin bill to Trump for his signature, and advances two other crypto bills to the Senate for consideration  —  The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrency tokens known …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claim  —  Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings of what was then presumed …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Neuralink filed on April 24 as a “small disadvantaged business” that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B  —  Elon Musk's health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a “small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta hired AI researchers Mark Lee, from Apple's Foundation Models team, and Tom Gunter, who left Apple in June, for its superintelligence lab  —  Meta Platforms Inc. hired a pair of key artificial intelligence researchers who worked at Apple Inc., shortly after poaching their former boss from the iPhone maker.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as “woke AI”  —  The order would be one of several expected to be released outlining the president's vision for winning the AI race with China
Financial Times:
Sources: Perplexity was valued at $18B in a reported $100M extension round; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month  —  Artificial intelligence-powered search engine lures new investors to back higher price tag  —  Artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users may eventually pay thousands for a single prompt, and more
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options  —  Google's Veo 3 video generation model is now available through the Gemini API, with a price point that puts it among the more expensive options for AI video.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo Legion Go S review: SteamOS is a huge improvement over Windows, but battery life falls behind Windows-based handhelds and its touchpad is nearly useless  —  Valve's Steam Deck has dominated the handheld gaming PC space since its 2022 debut.  But even as more powerful Windows handhelds arrived …
Forums: r/LegionGo
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act, after criticism from some companies about lack of clarity  —  The European Commission set out guidelines on Friday to help AI models it has determined have systemic risks and face tougher obligations …
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over alleged Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial  —  Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O) agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion …
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review: looks like a regular phone with an exquisitely thin design, has top-tier performance, but is very pricey and lacks S Pen support  —  After several generations of iterative updates, it feels like Samsung tossed the Galaxy Z Fold 7 into a Hyperbolic Time Chamber …

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Associated Press:
A federal judge ruled the DOD violated his earlier order undoing most of the Pentagon's press pass policy and failed to reinstate NYT reporters' credentials

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump says Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have “Low IQs” and “their views are the opposite of MAGA” after they blasted him over Iran

Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Disney has retained high-profile litigator Charles Harder to challenge an upcoming unauthorized biography of Bob Iger, by WSJ reporter Robbie Whelan

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Bloomberg Law:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta names long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI
New York Times:
Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections
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