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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 … | 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.| 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.| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI staff were “freaked out” when GPT-Sol 5.6 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says Kimi K3 is a “pretty good model” but it is “too early” to tell whether Moonshot used distillation on OpenAI's models — OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Moonshot AI had developed a competitive new artificial intelligence model …
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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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| Nicola M White / Bloomberg: |
The SEC agrees to pay $150,000 in legal fees to end Coinbase's 2024 lawsuit seeking internal docs on the regulator's Biden-era crackdown on the crypto industry — The US Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to end Coinbase Global Inc.'s 2024 lawsuit seeking …
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline — More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — Peter Beck's Rocket Lab builds out internet satellite business to rival Starlink and Amazon Leo| 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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| The Atlantic: |
As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors — AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers. — Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia.| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
STMicro forecasts Q3 revenue up ~16% YoY to $3.7B, below $3.79B est., and expects AI sales to pass $1B in 2026 and be “well above $2B” in 2027; STM falls 14%+ — STMicroelectronics NV plunged the most in a year after the chipmaker forecast third-quarter sales that missed analysts' expectations …
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| Grace Yoon / Wall Street Journal: |
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $5.46B, above $5.26B est., net income up 53% to $1.98B, and forecasts $5.65B-$6.15B in Q3 revenue, above est. — The semiconductor company posted a quarterly profit of $1.98 billion, up from $1.30 billion a year earlier| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether — It was billed as cryptocurrency's big moment, President Donald Trump's first legislative victory in his drive to make the US the “crypto capital of the world.”| Wall Street Journal: |
AMD and Anthropic sign a server deal for tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5B in Anthropic — The 2-gigawatt deal covers tens of billions of dollars' worth of chips, as AMD plans to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic
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| Adrià Calatayud / Wall Street Journal: |
Dassault Systèmes agrees to acquire ArisGlobal, a US supplier of software to the life sciences industry, from Nordic Capital for ~$2B, set to close in H2 2026 — Completion is expected in the second half, subject to approvals — Dassault Systemes said it agreed to buy Nordic Capital's ArisGlobal …
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