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Demis Hassabis is stepping down as Google DeepMind's CEO to be the unit's chair and will add Alphabet chief scientist to his title; GOOG drops 4%+ after hours  —  Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman.  Chief scientist Jeff Dean …
Bloomberg:
Google says Google Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as its SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai
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.
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration  —  A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company …
Wall Street Journal:
Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training
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 …
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 startup  —  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.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks  —  At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies …
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.
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.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators  —  In March, a developer working on a Meta data center in El Paso applied to power the site with a gas-burning plant large enough to supply electricity to 300,000 homes.
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Nikita Bier steps down as head of product at X after a little more than a year in the role and says he will continue as an adviser  —  Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk's social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024  —  The group's shares have quadrupled, but it has yet to prove itself a serious manufacturing competitor to Taiwan's TSMC.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sapiom, which helps businesses build, ship, and scale AI agents and lower token costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Dragonfly, taking its total funding to $50M  —  THE SCOOP  —  Quintessential San Francisco AI startup Polsia employs nobody and operates swarms of AI agents to help run other businesses.
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.
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 5%  —  Uber issued a forecast for bookings and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates, while second-quarter profit was in line with expectations.

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Jazz Monroe / Pitchfork:
Sources: nearly all staff at music outlets BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine appear to have been laid off by Veeps, owned by Live Nation

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
FuboTV reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.48B, a $25.7M net loss, vs. a $38M loss a year earlier, and North American subscribers up 2% to 5.75M; FUBO jumps 12%

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $25.2B, below $25.4B est., adjusted EPS of $2.06, above $1.85 est., and entertainment revenue up 6% to $11.3B

More News

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
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”

Earlier Picks

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
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 estimates; SHOP jumps 17%
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
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