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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $119.8B, above $116.9B est., Google Cloud revenue up 82% YoY to $24.8B, and Services revenue up 15% YoY to $94.5B — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 22, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
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| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public more than two decades ago — Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026 — Google burned through cash in the second quarter …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue up 13% YoY to $11.06B, above $10.8B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $81.63B, up from $71.34B in Q2 2025 — Video giant YouTube, one of the world's biggest entertainment businesses, continues to turn in double-digit increases in ad revenue.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says Gemini now has 950M MAUs, up from 900M in May and 750M in February — Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
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| Politico: |
Bipartisan House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the US DHS authority to shut down or throttle AI models that it deems dangerous — A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI staff were “freaked out” when its AI models breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic — Increasing use of aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behaviour by leading models
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| New York Times: |
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play developer rules — At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
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| Jack Ewing / New York Times: |
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
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| Director Michael Kratsios / @mkratsios47: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says “we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model” — We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google launches a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, utilizing tools like liveness detection to mitigate deepfake risks, rolling out globally — The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.| Akanksha Khushi / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will shut down on September 23 and users' assets are safe; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for failing to implement AML rules — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies — Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.
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| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is “shallow” for certain tasks — One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says “AI will not kill the software industry”, as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target — Francisco Partners co-founder Dipanjan ‘DJ’ Deb says AI will not kill software sector as firm raises $21bn
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake — ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management and HR operations …
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| Fred Gao / Inside China: |
In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more — In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China resumes issuing robotaxi permits after an industry-wide full safety review prompted by an April outage involving 100+ Baidu robotaxis in Wuhan — China has started issuing robotaxi permits again after a high-profile incident involving self-driving vehicles led authorities …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term server CPU purchase commitments with Chinese customers; prices of some CPU products are up 40%+ in China YTD — U.S. chipmaking giants Intel (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are signing longer-term purchase commitments …
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| Washington Post: |
US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid — Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Alphabet holds $94.1B in SpaceX equity post-IPO; $80B are under short-term sale restrictions, while $14.1B remain long-term restricted until Q3 2027 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said its equity holdings include $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, after the space-and-AI company's blockbuster initial public offering.
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board — Travis Kalanick's robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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| Kaitlyn Radde / Pew Research Center: |
A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period — Prediction markets are an increasingly popular way for people to trade on the outcomes of real-world events.| Reuters: |
Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits — Tesla (TSLA.O) on Wednesday missed analysts' profit forecasts for the second quarter and, for the first time in more than two years … Sponsor Posts
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