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July 30, 2026, 10:10 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.
Stephen Nellis / 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.
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  —  Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter.  The stock shot up more than 10% in extended trading.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history  —  Microsoft Corp. made market history on Thursday, adding nearly half a trillion dollars to its value, the most by any stock in a single day.
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.
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 …
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”  —  Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) cybersecurity company Wiz said on Thursday it had found a sweeping flaw …
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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 …

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CNN:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
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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
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
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
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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