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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's Chairman. Chief scientist Jeff Dean and another Google AI executive …
More: Google, 9to5Google, Reuters, Financial Times, and Business Insider
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more — Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company — Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google's most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.| Bloomberg: |
Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis' responsibilities — Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, is moving to a chairman role at Alphabet Inc.'s AI lab in a major reshuffle at the internet giant.
X: @garymarcus and @koraykv
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The UK AISI says it observed 17 cases of Mythos 5 and two cases of GPT-5.6 Sol trying to hack people and organizations during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security Institute said it observed nearly 20 instances of Anthropic and OpenAI's most advanced models trying …
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Forums: r/unitedkingdom, r/cybersecurity, r/neoliberal, and r/singularity
| Wired: |
OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website's security after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it internet access during evaluations — Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant will remain on connected cars — As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.19B, below $14.24B est., Gross Bookings up 24% YoY to $58B, above $57B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below est. — Uber issued a forecast for bookings and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates, while second-quarter profit was in line with expectations.
More: Wall Street Journal, Uber, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, and Quartz. X: @jason
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets so users can pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create Virtual Wallets for agentic shopping — The field of agentic commerce—a term that describes the use of bots for online buying and selling—is evolving fast.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.58B, above $3.45B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $115.57B, and forecasts Q3 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 15%+ — Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts … | Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical feed Verts — Disney said it would allow “thoughtfully curated” fan-created videos, using clips from its library, to appear on the streaming service.
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| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., AI operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est., and says Q3 and Q4 capex will remain similar to Q2 — SpaceX stock fell after the company disclosed higher-than-expected spending on its artificial intelligence business …
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| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks — The White House is excluding open models from its framework to test advanced AI capabilities, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.| Maria Curi / Axios: |
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Forums: r/singularity and r/politics
| Tom Carter / Business Insider: |
Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anthropic plans to design its own AI chips to run Claude, the company told Business Insider.
More: TechCrunch, PCMag, Reuters, The Economic Times, Digit, and Unite.AI
X: @andrewcurran_, @zephyr_z9, and @patrickmoorhead
| Kai Williams / Understanding AI: |
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20+ mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic — I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. … At a July 23 press conference in Philadelphia …
More: Noahpinion and The Algorithmic Bridge
X: @binarybits, @jdlichtman, @chi_t_williams, @chi_t_williams, @noahpinion, and @chi_t_williams. LinkedIn: Ryan Dancey
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M — Travel protection startup Faye raised a $50 million Series C led by Madrona, CEO Elad Schaffer tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: FinTech Global, FinSMEs, Faye, PhocusWire, Travel Weekly, CTech, and Skift
| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported far smaller profit margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bills — A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $701M, vs. $712M est., net income of $48M, vs. $43M est., and ~$73.4B USDC circulation on June 30; CRCL is down 20%+ YTD — Circle Internet Group Inc. presented a mixed bag for investors. The largest US stablecoin issuer reported higher-than-forecast earnings …
More: Circle Internet Financial, Payments Dive, Decrypt, CoinDesk, PYMNTS, Benzinga, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, and CoinDesk
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide — A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
More: AppleInsider and Koreaboo
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LinkedIn: Caleb Melby, Olivia Carville, and Anders Melin
Forums: r/TrueReddit and r/technology
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas from August 10, marking the launch of its commercial operations after offering free rides since 2025 — Nearly a year ago, Zoox opened its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas. Now, it is ready to start charging for those rides.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pringles maker Kellanova is using AI and a partnership with Siemens to improve production of the chip in Europe, including making digital twins of its dough — Kellanova, which manufactures Pringles in Europe, says a new AI project could be the key to improving production of the iconic chip| Business Insider: |
Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech — Google wants its AI to get better at coding. It might have found a shortcut. — The tech giant has been in discussions … | New York Times: |
Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper — Developers built Sunflower, an artificial intelligence tool customized for Ugandan languages, using a Chinese model.
X: @mikeisaac
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trustworthiness to promote skincare, indie music, and more — Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne.
More: Dexerto. X: @glenngabe, @miarsato, @miarsato, and @miarsato. Bluesky: @jake—k.bsky.social. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: r/technology, r/SkincareAddiction, r/indieheads, and r/TrueReddit
| Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: |
Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to “build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture” — SpaceX says it's ready to be a one-chip supplier company. — On SpaceX's highly anticipated earnings call on Wednesday …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's AMEC for possible use at their Chinese factories, as they hedge against US curbs — Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) … Sponsor Posts
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