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| Axios: |
Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman. Chief scientist Jeff Dean and several Google AI colleagues …
More: Google, CNBC, Reuters, International Business Times, Washington Post, Semafor, Investor's Business Daily, 9to5Google, New York Post, The Independent, The Verge, Business Insider, Financial Times, ProtoThema English, Tech Times, The Decoder, Neowin, Benzinga, Dow Jones Newswires, and Quartz
X: @demishassabis, @sundarpichai, @elonmusk, @natolambert, @garymarcus, @danshipper, @jacalulu, @kenwattana, @thezvi, @vkhosla, @sebjohnsonuk, @shakeelhashim, @shantanugoel, @gerritd, @danshipper, @atabarrok, @hkarthik, @kimmonismus, @benitoz, @marie_haynes, @peterjliu, @scaling01, @suchenzang, @benitoz, @firstadopter, @chamath, @astridwilde1, @officiallogank, @phequals7, @realnickmugalli, @scmallaby, @tenobrus, @southernvalue95, and @_arohan_
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most prominent artificial intelligence veterans in a seismic overhaul that is casting doubt over leadership …
More: Gizmodo, Capital Brief, Fast Company, Fortune, Telegraph, Hindustan Times, Business Insider, Mercury News, NPowerUser, Pulse 2.0, and TBPN
X: @shiringhaffary and @koraykv
| 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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, International Business Times, The New Stack, PYMNTS, The Information, Implicator.ai, Unite.AI, ZeroHedge News, and RuntimeWire
X: @jeffdean, @dynamicwebpaige, @oriolvinyalsml, @jeffdean, @garymarcus, @sundarpichai, @jeffdean, @jeffdean, @scottew, @sanjay_ghemawat, @midnight_captl, @chandnirao_here, @firstadopter, @vkhosla, @jeffdean, @quocleix, @kimmonismus, @stevesi, @sophiadew, @zeffmax, @pitdesi, @swyx, @gergelyorosz, @jeffdean, @ziv_ravid, @himanshustwts, and @andrewyng
LinkedIn: Daniele Micci-Barreca, Steven Levy, Yvonne Likomanova, and Demitri Swan
| 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.
More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Economic Times, GeekWire, MediaPost, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @vkhosla, @radicalvcfund, @danprimack, @vkhosla, @jonchu, @vkhosla, and @vin_sachi. LinkedIn: Rob Toews. Forums: Hacker News
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens — Meta is rolling out its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company tries to challenge leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI.
More: Meta AI Research, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, The Information, VentureBeat, TestingCatalog AI News, Unite.AI, MarkTechPost, and RuntimeWire
X: @finkd, @cheatyyyy, @craigweiss, @teortaxestex, @shengjia_zhao, @stocksavvyshay, @claireszhou, @deryatr_, @mweinbach, @chengxuzhuang, @mattdeitke, @altryne, @scaling01, @pratanchandani, and @alexandr_wang. Forums: Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Information, TechCrunch, and Forbes
X: @kylebrussell, @giffmana, @heaney555, @xeophon, @scaling01, @synthwavedd, and @kimmonismus
| Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: |
Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading product for X and continue as an adviser — Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster. I'll be stepping back from leading product for 𝕏 and will continue on as an advisor. Serving the X community has been the privilege of a lifetime. X is, and will remain, the most [video]
X: @nikitabier, @benjitaylor, and @nicksortor
| Reuters: |
eBay reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $3.13B, vs. $3.02B est., GMV up 15% to $22.4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — EBay (EBAY.O) forecast third-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, leaning on its push into authenticated luxury goods, collectibles …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, eBay Inc., and Benzinga
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Etsy says it will cut ~220 employees, or ~12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, and reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $668.3M, vs. $649.1M est. — Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees, or roughly 12% of its workforce, as the online marketplace looks … | 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 19%+ — Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts …
More: PYMNTS, Blockonomi, Benzinga, Dow Jones Newswires, Barchart.com, CNBC, Canadian Press, Wall Street Journal, Financial Post, Proactive, StockStory, Quartz, The Information, Shopify, and Bloomberg
X: @harleyf, @buccocapital, @dhh, @harleyf, and @tobi
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.19B, below $14.24B est., Gross Bookings up 24% to $58B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; UBER drops 6%+ — Uber issued a forecast for bookings and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates, while second-quarter profit was in line with expectations.
More: Reuters, Uber, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Barron's Online, Dow Jones Newswires, Benzinga, and Blockonomi
X: @hit, @jason, @thetranscript_, and @vjncapital
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
More: Austin American-Statesman, Metro.co.uk, Blockonomi, Motley Fool, Memeburn, Quartz, Hindustan Times, GB News, Benzinga, Financial Post, Zag Daily, PCMag, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @ajrgd, @alexgkendall, @wayve_ai, @jason, @natlungfy, and @gbrulte
| 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: Quartz, Reuters, Benzinga, PCMag, Unite.AI, The American Bazaar, The Economic Times, and Digit
X: @andrewcurran_, @zephyr_z9, @benbajarin, @patrickmoorhead, and @ayedtay
| 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.
More: The Walt Disney Company, IGN, Tubefilter, Los Angeles, CA Patch, Inc.com, The American Bazaar, Barrett Media, TV Tech, The Hill, Marketing Dive, Advanced Television, iPhone in Canada, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Polygon.com, The Independent, Media Play News, The Wrap, Streaming Better, Variety, Cord Cutters News, TheDesk.net, and Forbes Middle East
X: @loudmouthjulia, @lmoses, @loudmouthjulia, @bristei, @mikemaher, @scottgustin, and @benmullin. LinkedIn: Kelvin Liu
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS — Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses.
More: Mysk Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld, TechCrunch, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, Android Authority, CyberInsider, The Proton Blog, and Cult of Mac
X: @psylo_app, @psylo_app, @onyxaudit, @mysk_co, @protonvpn, @mysk_co, and @mysk_co
Bluesky: @josephcox and @evacide
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year — It's also planning big changes for developers and old Reddit. … Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits — and eventually the rest of site.
More: Reddit Upvoted, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Authority, Dexerto, and 9to5Mac
X: @dexerto and @utkarsh37576752
Forums: r/antiai, r/artificial, r/technology, and r/RelayForReddit
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
More: Search Engine Roundtable. X: @monrovianprince, @nuancedliberal, @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
| 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.
More: The Verge, Inc, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, The Decoder, MobileSyrup, MediaPost, Mashable, Phandroid, Streaming Better, Droid Life, Search Engine Roundtable, The Independent, Neowin, Engadget, The Ambient, T3, TechRadar, Search Engine Land, and How-To Geek
X: @learnwithdaksh, @le_happy_can, and @joewoody86
Forums: r/google and r/EquinoxEv
| 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.
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, InsideEVs, Axios, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, and RuntimeWire. X: @gbrulte
| 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 …
More: AI Security Institute, OpenAI, Financial Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC, Telegraph, UPI, CNBC, Breitbart, Sky News, PCWorld, Constellation Research, Implicator.ai, PaymentsJournal, Decrypt, International Business Times, Mashable, CRN, The Decoder, Quartz, Politico, and Wired
X: @anthropicai, @aisecurityinst, @openai, @johnschulman2, @uk_daniel_card, @tszzl, @aisafetymemes, @kimmonismus, @fjzzq2002, @emollick, @emollick, @racheltobac, @_nathancalvin, @zackkorman, @tobyordoxford, @mikko, @thegrugq, @willccbb, @so8res, @yacinemtb, @liv_boeree, @scaling01, @charliebull0ck, @jessi_cata, @soldni, @mweinbach, @flxbinder, @hesamation, @romeovdean, @keikane_, @stalkermustang, @luizajarovsky, @aliceisplaying, @wazzcrypto, @justinebateman, @peterhndrsn, @adonis_singh, @zackkorman, @davidondrej1, @avi_eisen, @mikeisaac, @hadas_gold, @sauers_, @dfrsrchtwts, @kanishkanarayan, @gbrl_dick, @tenobrus, @humanharlan, @ekinomicss, @magmill95, @shakeelhashim, @boazbaraktcs, @ednewtonrex, @joshua_saxe, @yonashav, @jimrandomh, @shakeelhashim, @zackkorman, @nickswan73, @chrisrmcguire, @gerritd, @suchenzang, @heidykhlaaf, @garrisonlovely, @prerat, @mikeisaac, @andrewcurran_, @discoplomacy, @tab_delete, @kanishkanarayan, @kanishkanarayan, @kanishkanarayan, and @kanishkanarayan
LinkedIn: Rohan Gupta and Yoshua Bengio
Bluesky: @ianmoody, @peterkwells.com, @hetanshah, @markriedl, and @ericjgeller.com. Mastodon: @peter@toot.cafe
Forums: r/ShitAIBrosSay, r/unitedkingdom, r/cybersecurity, r/neoliberal, and r/singularity
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, The American Bazaar, Motley Fool, Investopedia, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, HotHardware, Barchart.com, CNBC, Barron's Online, and Stocktwits
X: @elonmusk, @paradislabs, @milksandmatcha, @fredlambert, @nicbstme, and @sundeep. Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz
| 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.
More: Cloudflare, Cloudflare, eMarketer, TestingCatalog AI News, The Crypto Times, Help Net Security, Cloudflare, Bitcoin News, Blockchain.News, PYMNTS, The Block, and RuntimeWire
X: @yoimnotkesku, @levelsio, @trustlessstate, @vicvijayakumar, @imlunahey, @antoniogm, @ajrgd, @mollysoshea, @willpapper, @fayazara, @cloudflaredev, @sytaylor, and @cloudflare. Bluesky: @bmannconsulting.com. Forums: r/CloudFlare
| 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: @noahpinion, @jdlichtman, @binarybits, @chi_t_williams, @chi_t_williams, and @chi_t_williams. LinkedIn: Ryan Dancey
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark Handoff, which can use a browser efficiently to complete tasks.
More: VentureBeat, Hark, and RuntimeWire
X: @adcock_brett, @hark_labs, @chamath, @adcock_brett, @adcock_brett, and @chrisgpt
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title — Salesforce has appointed an operating chief under CEO Marc Benioff, promoting Miguel Milano to the role. — Milano, a former Oracle executive … Sponsor Posts
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