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| Apple: |
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $109.42B, vs. $108.65B est., net income up 27% to $29.79B, and China revenue up 22% to $18.82B, vs. $19.6B estimated — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses — The highflying hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner is in crisis mode after AI-related bets sank — Situational Awareness …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/NBIS_Stock, and r/Superstonk
| David Faber / CNBC: |
Sources: Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings; the fund grew to as big as $45B at the start of July before big losses took hold — The battered hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is unwinding many of its trades after big losses …
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Forums: r/KEEL_, r/MU_Stock, and r/SKHynix
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May — Assets at Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness have slumped to about $10 billion after it was forced to liquidate some positions to meet margin calls.| Financial Times: |
Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days — Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund suffered steep losses in recent days from tech sell-off — Situational Awareness rapidly sold …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout — Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days — Situational Awareness, the $20bn hedge fund founded …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing — Some of Anthropic's most powerful models — including Mythos 5 and an internal research model — gained unauthorized access … | Anthropic: |
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B+ annual revenue run rate for chips — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2026.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 26% YoY to $19.81B, vs. $19.43B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $13.73B — Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter. The stock shot up more than 10% in extended trading.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them.
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Bluesky: @carnage4life and @ed3d.net
Forums: r/codex, r/BetterOffline, r/codex, r/accelerate, r/codex, and r/OpenAI
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids — The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.
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LinkedIn: Jérémy Plassmann and Karl Weinmeister
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and Slashdot
| Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling — Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face — Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small, an efficient open-weights model …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
LinkedIn introduces a “seems like AI slop” button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated — Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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| The Verge: |
In a memo to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out priorities for the unit, including returning to player and revenue growth by the end of fiscal year 2027 — Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth.
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Forums: r/Minecraft and r/xbox
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal — Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents …
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LinkedIn: Ely Kahn, Permiso Security, Paul Nguyen, Jason Martin, Okta, and Jared Elder
| CNBC: |
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 19% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.3B est., stablecoin revenue below est., and a wider-than-expected loss; COIN drops 6%+ after hours — Coinbase shares dropped in extended trading on Thursday after the crypto platform posted a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs — The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks …
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LinkedIn: James Bankoski and Parisa Tabriz
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon staff find “catastrophically expensive” AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to fail to match author details with listings — E-commerce giant's staff said the new technology had caused budget overruns that sometimes took months to detect| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen “no evidence of customer impact” — Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) cybersecurity company Wiz said on Thursday it had found a sweeping flaw …
More: wiz.io, SC Media, Tech Times, The Hacker News, Hackread, Digit, and RuntimeWire
| Carly Page / The Register: |
Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet — Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts
More: Amazon Web Services, OpenSourceMalware.com, and BleepingComputer
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 — Cloud provider Nscale agreed to acquire software startup Anyscale to help customers use AI computing power more efficiently.
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X: @brodyford_ and @edzitron
LinkedIn: Phoebee Gahan, Sudhakar Jukanti, Josh Payne, Anirudhya, and Zack Yaguda
| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
The Commerce Dept. signed letters of intent for $874M in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for minority stakes in GlobalFoundries, Kepler, and five other companies — The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives … | The Atlantic: |
Sources: Zelenskyy asked Trump to secure Elon Musk's permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia, but Trump was noncommittal — Ukraine wants to start using Musk's Starlink to target ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia. — During closed-door talks …
More: NBC News and Techstrong IT
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 61% YoY to $805M, vs. $730M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., says search referrals were “choppy”; RDDT drops 6%+ after hours — Reddit reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on the top and the bottom lines, and the company issued guidance that sailed past expectations.| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta — Scale AI has hired former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, year after Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang left the AI infrastructure company for Meta.
More: Scale AI, Reuters, Motley Fool, Quartz, RuntimeWire, and The Verge
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk — A federal judge on Thursday signaled she's become even more skeptical of the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic … | Abhirup Roy / Reuters: |
Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 — Amazon's (AMZN.O) Zoox won U.S. approval on Wednesday for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis … | Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Roblox reports Q2 bookings up 8% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.6B est., DAUs up 10% to 123M, forecasts Q3 bookings and revenue below est.; RBLX drops 13%+ after hours — The company projects revenue to increase by 4% to 10%, slowing from recent double-digit growth
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and Investing.com
| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
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