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July 30, 2026, 11:45 PM
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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.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Tim Cook says Apple expects “the impact from the supply constraints to increase significantly sequentially” and the market pricing for memory to keep rising
Reuters:
Apple Q3: iPhone up 22% YoY to $54.25B, vs. $53.86B est., Mac up 29% to $10.35B, iPad down 6% to $6.19B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 6% to $7.88B
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:
Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident  —  In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet …
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.
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 37% YoY to $42.2B, above estimates of a 31.21% increase, and AWS operating income up 64% to $16.6B; AMZN jumps 8%+ after hours  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) topped market expectations for quarterly cloud revenue growth on Thursday on the back of surging enterprise AI spending …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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.
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.
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 10%+ 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.
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 …
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 5%+ after hours  —  Coinbase shares dropped in extended trading on Thursday after the crypto platform posted a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

New York Times:
Sources: Trump personally told his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency; at least four spots have run at a cost of ~$5.5M

Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Q&A with a co-author of a study on independent US journalism: 40% of respondents got all their income from their sites and ~80% were nearly 100% reliant on ads

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group
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
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”
More: wiz.io, The Hacker News, Hackread, SC Media, and RuntimeWire
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Earlier Picks

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
Sri Muppidi / New York Times:
Simile, which offers “agentic twins” of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation
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
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
OpenAI:
OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score with fewer output tokens, after Sol with the official harness got 7.8%
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