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Meta reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $60.8B, family DAP up 3% YoY to 3.6B for June, net income down 14% YoY, and forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; META drops 9% — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90.1B, above $87.62B est., and says Microsoft 365 Copilot has 30M+ paid seats, up from 20M+ in Q3; MSFT jumps 15%+ — REDMOND, Wash. — July 29, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 …
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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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| 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% — A sped-up video of GPT-5.6 Sol attempting to solve puzzles in the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, with the official harness (left) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the DSA as soon as August — OpenAI's ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 130% YoY to ~$118.1B, below ~$118.9B est., and operating profit up 1,814% to ~$61.46B, above ~$60.68B est., on robust AI demand — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| 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
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| Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal: |
Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M+ in annual revenue, and those making $10M+ nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI — AI tools make it easier for founders to get started alone, and many stay that way as they grow
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How compute could become 10x+ costlier as AI capabilities and monetization outpace supply, and a look at the implications if Anthropic hits $1T in 2027 revenue — If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year.
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| 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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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt to create infographics or visual alterations of locations — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google Earth can now generate AI images with Nano Banana. — The tool is entertaining, but weak for serious geographic work.
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| K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
Airlines are using AI to adjust seat prices more quickly, capturing more revenue while narrowing the pricing gaps that once let travelers find bargain fares — Globetrotters hunting for airfare bargains are in for a rude awakening: the days of stumbling across a cheap seat on a popular flight could soon disappear.
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| Bloomberg: |
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a tech overhaul of Disney+ to close the gap with Netflix and YouTube, including better recommendations and vertical videos — Streaming has been a drag on Disney's share price as subscriber growth stalled. A tech overhaul and more foreign-language shows are in the cards.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums — Did you hear it was just a ban on Chinese humanoid robots? It's not. … But spying doesn't require legs — and neither does the FCC's robot ban.
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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called “EMIB-like”, similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is developing an advanced chip-packaging technology similar to what Intel already offers … | CNBC: |
Internal meeting: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees that the startup's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than Q2's, “and Q2 was no slouch” — As OpenAI chases rival Anthropic in the enterprise and tries to sustain growth in the face of new competition …
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| Reuters: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue down 4% YoY to $9.95B, forecasts Q4 profit below est., and expects revenue from Apple to fall faster; QCOM drops 4% — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) forecast fourth-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, and said revenue from Apple (AAPL.O) …
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| 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 …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation — Startup K2 Space, which builds large satellites for high-power tasks like data-heavy communications and defense missions … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners — London-based Inforcer announced Thursday a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners — the latest sign of investor interest …
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| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU formally launches a bidding process to build AI Gigafactories, expecting to unlock €30B of investments, closing on November 12 with awards in early 2027 — The commission expects the call to unlock around $34.40 billion in investment — The European Union formally launched …
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| Bloomberg: |
ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxuan He says other AI models have tried to cheat but OpenAI's “was at a much larger scale than we'd encountered” — A group of university researchers that developed benchmarks to test the cybersecurity capabilities of AI systems …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Onyx Security, whose platform enables enterprises to deploy AI agents securely, raised a $113M Series B led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $153M — Just four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets.
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