Meta reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $60.8B and family daily active people up 3% to 3.6B on average for June 2026; META drops 4%+ after hours  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.  —  “AI is accelerating our core business today …

Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032  —  The companies plan to develop a data center campus on the Energy Department's Paducah site in western Kentucky

Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant  —  Russia said on Wednesday it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity, alleging …

DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall  —  DoorDash Inc. is building its own delivery drones and has gained the necessary approvals to operate them commercially …

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X  —  Billionaire had accused brands of organising an illegal boycott  —  Elon Musk's X has settled a long-running legal battle …

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns  —  Lilian Weng, a researcher who cofounded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati …

Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+  —  South Korean chip giant misses analyst expectations but insists risk of memory oversupply remains ‘limited’

Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned most of the AlphaFold papers' original authors over the past year; nearly a quarter of the full-time authors have left  —  Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen  —  The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control  —  Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks.

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people”  —  Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology

The UK CMA opens an investigation into Microsoft over a potential consumer law breach involving users paying more to renew Microsoft 365 after it added Copilot  —  The UK's consumer and antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft Corp. misled customers into paying …

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones  —  Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads …

Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them  —  Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027  —  OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027 …

OpenAI releases an “early” version of its open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding security checks to CI/CD, and more  —  We quietly released the open-source Codex Security CLI, but Hacker News found it before we had a chance to share it here... You can now use it to scan repositories, track findings across runs, verify fixes, and add security checks to CI/CD. This is an early release, and we're listening to your feedback as we continue improving it.

xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment  —  Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-of-its-kind law that bans apps and websites …

Sources: Moonshot AI hit a $35B valuation after closing a $3.5B round, exceeding its initial target of $1B to $2B, and plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026  —  Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing …

GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers  —  GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) said on Wednesday the U.S. government will award $300 million to the chipmaker to bolster research …

GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's prior investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with apparent hallucinations  —  Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy  —  Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn't made by humans.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, the 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors  —  Is this the future of foldable phones?  —  Samsung clearly thinks so.  The company has given its new wide foldable the …

Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M  —  The Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems.

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage  —  The unsung hero behind OpenAI's 2026 transformation is a technology that rarely gets mentioned, and that most of its 1 billion monthly users have never even heard of.

ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M  —  Chip design startup ChipAgents expanded its Series A financing with a $60 million infusion to further fund its plans to speed …