The Route Behind Google’s €890M Fine
The European Commission’s €890 million DMA case puts Google Search and Play in the same access stack. Gemini’s 950 million monthly users extend that logic from ranked routes to generated answers.
Figma’s Canvas Becomes a Checkpoint
Figma’s revenue growth accelerated from 40% in Q4 to 46% in Q1, reaching $333.4M, even as FIG was reported roughly 80% below its August 2025 IPO level after Google updated Stitch. Its moat is moving from first-draft creation to governing what agents produce.
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $119.8B, vs. $116.9B est., Google Cloud revenue up 82% YoY to $24.8B, and Google Services revenue up 15% YoY to $94.5B
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 22, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks
When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says “we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model”
We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation ag...
Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original Xbox games, offering 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync support, and more
Conker, Crimson Skies, Fuzion Frenzy, and Blinx head to Xbox PC for the first time, complete with Xbox achievements, and more are on the way.
Samsung unveils the $2,100+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, featuring its “most advanced foldable design”, a Flex Titanium display, a 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17
The “Ultra” moniker is alive and well, but it now applies to the Galaxy Z Fold series.
US GAO: Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery app employers have the most workers on aid
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot …
The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies
Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom
Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried …
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18
OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
Tesla reports a Q2 negative free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotics investments, and profit below est.
Tesla (TSLA.O) on Wednesday missed analysts' profit forecasts for the second quarter and, for the first time in more than two years …
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models
This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot …
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving
In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac, including long-awaited iMac updates, a revamped MacBook Pro, and a new Neo, across the fall and 2027
Apple Inc. is readying an overhaul of its Mac line, seeking to capitalize on demand for powerful laptops and desktops fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules
At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin leaving the US misses a larger structural reality: China isn't a net AI talent importer and has its own pipeline
More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally
The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
The US SEC agrees to pay $150K in legal fees to end Coinbase's 2024 lawsuit seeking internal docs on the regulator's Biden-era crackdown on the crypto industry
The US Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to end Coinbase Global Inc.'s 2024 lawsuit seeking …
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play “before sessions begin”
The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board
Travis Kalanick's robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake
The value of Alphabet Inc.'s stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has soared to around $124 billion …
ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake
ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management and HR operations …
OpenAI introduces OpenAI Presence to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks
OpenAI is launching a new product that could help the company take another step beyond the ultra-competitive business of making AI models.
As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers. — Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia.
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest sales growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours
Intel reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, notching its fastest revenue growth rate …
Dassault Systèmes agrees to acquire ArisGlobal, a US supplier of software to the life sciences industry, from Nordic Capital for ~$2B, set to close in H2 2026
Completion is expected in the second half, subject to approvals — Dassault Systemes said it agreed to buy Nordic Capital's ArisGlobal …
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules
Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
In a leaked nearly four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute power, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more
In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own …
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion
Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
A study of 11,989 Polymarket accounts finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during the period
Prediction markets are an increasingly popular way for people to trade on the outcomes of real-world events.
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot
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Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, causing poor decisions, like a troubled Rivos acquisition, low supplier trust due to hardware pivots, and more
Meta Infrastructure has become bloated, with middle managers expending resources on over-engineered technology solutions that lose sight of broader organizational needs.
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers
President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers …
A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire and Rocket Lab founder pushing to compete with Elon Musk's and Jeff Bezos' satellite internet ambitions
Peter Beck's Rocket Lab builds out internet satellite business to rival Starlink and Amazon Leo
Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether
It was billed as cryptocurrency's big moment, President Donald Trump's first legislative victory in his drive to make the US the “crypto capital of the world.”
Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term CPU purchase commitments with Chinese server customers; source: some CPU product prices are up 40%+ in China YTD
U.S. chipmaking giants Intel (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are signing longer-term purchase commitments …
Filing: Alphabet holds $94.1B in SpaceX equity post-IPO; $80B is under short-term sale restrictions, while $14.1B remains long-term restricted until Q3 2027
Alphabet Inc.'s Google said its equity holdings include $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, after the space-and-AI company's blockbuster initial public offering.
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV
The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
Sources: China resumes issuing robotaxi permits after an industry-wide full safety review prompted by an April outage involving 100+ Baidu robotaxis in Wuhan
China has started issuing robotaxi permits again after a high-profile incident involving self-driving vehicles led authorities …
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $5.46B, above $5.26B est., net income up 53% to $1.98B, and forecasts $5.65B-$6.15B in Q3 revenue, above est.
The semiconductor company posted a quarterly profit of $1.98 billion, up from $1.30 billion a year earlier
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations
One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
STMicro forecasts Q3 revenue up ~16% YoY to $3.7B, below $3.79B est., and expects AI sales to pass $1B in 2026 and be “well above $2B” in 2027; STM falls 14%+
STMicroelectronics NV plunged the most in a year after the chipmaker forecast third-quarter sales that missed analysts' expectations …
Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy
Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees as it changed how its internal structure operates.
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers
IBM (IBM.N) has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co (BA.N) and General Motors …
Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more
Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong
Semight Instruments Co. is considering a second listing in Hong Kong, people familiar with the matter said …
A Florida teenager drops his lawsuit accusing Meta of creating harmful social media features, following settlements with co-defendants TikTok, Snap, and YouTube
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI infrastructure spending, marking its first cash burn since going public in August 2004
Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026 — Google burned through cash in the second quarter …
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places
, Follow Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture — Instagram is cracking down on videos shot on Meta glasses …
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, vs. $17.6B est., infrastructure revenue down 7% to $3.8B, Z mainframe revenue down 42%, and lowers its 2026 forecast
Ethereum layer-2 blockchain developer Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after months of upheaval that included a token scandal and a Binance ban
The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has secured EU antitrust approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
AMD and Anthropic sign a server deal for tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5B in Anthropic
Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI
Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics as the company expands …
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more
Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint
Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.
The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year contract with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract
The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's …
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027
AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86%
AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M
Composable security operations startup Abstract Security Inc. today said it has raised a $25 million Series A extension …
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of energy, with several hundred MWs set to come online starting in 2028
Sources: OpenAI's staff were “freaked out” when its AI models breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic
Increasing use of aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behaviour by leading models
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue up 13% YoY to $11.06B, above $10.8B est., and Google ad revenue up 14% YoY to $81.63B
Video giant YouTube, one of the world's biggest entertainment businesses, continues to turn in double-digit increases in ad revenue.
Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation
The Indian government has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central parts of the capital Delhi …
ServiceNow reports Q2 subscription revenue up 24.5% YoY to $3.88B, increases full year subscription revenue growth estimate to 23%; NOW jumps 4%+ pre-market
A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops “long-horizon” agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay …
Reddit's stock closed down 8.32% on July 23 after a report that the company might shut off Google's access to its content for AI training; RDDT is down 28%+ YTD
AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round …
Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT
Yelp is licensing reviews, photos and other business information to OpenAI, giving ChatGPT a new source of real-time local recommendation data …
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight the service's AI capabilities, leading to an internal redesign project called Lighthouse
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says Kimi K3 is a “pretty good model” but it is “too early” to tell whether Moonshot used distillation on OpenAI's models
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Moonshot AI had developed a competitive new artificial intelligence model …
Google projects its capex at $195B to $205B in 2026, after saying in April that it will spend up to $190B; Q2 capex grew 100% YoY to $44.92B; GOOGL falls 7%+
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Google says Gemini now has 950M MAUs, up from 900M in May and 750M in February, and that daily active users tripled over the past year
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Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal potentially worth around $10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May
Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Little Tech Association, a new group of almost 200 companies across the startup community, like Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI
Sophia Cai /Politico:
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI “acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models”
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Nvidia signs a $1.5B accord with Amkor, involving a prepayment by Nvidia to help bolster Amkor's chip packaging facility in Arizona; AMKR jumps 16%+ after hours
Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous
A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority …
SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 22% YoY to €6.28B, vs. €6.26B est., total revenue up 9.4% to €9.88B, and lowers its 2026 non-IFRS operating profit guidance
The German business-software company's revenue rose 9.4% to $11.24 billion — SAP posted higher revenue in its latest quarter …
Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation
AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure
Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips
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Sources: Cathedral, launched by ex-DOGE staffers to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, raised $160M led by a16z and Sequoia at a $1.4B valuation
Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup, which offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B
Source: Stripe's revenue jumped by a third to $6.8B in 2025, its fastest revenue growth since 2021, with free cash flow up 52% to $3.2B
Genius AI, formerly GlossGenius, which pivoted from a salon management platform to offer AI tools for service SMBs, raised a $44M Series D at a $1.15B valuation
Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says “AI will not kill the software industry”, as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target
AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M
Google says its cloud computing unit had a $514B backlog of contracted work that hasn't been recorded as revenue yet, up from ~$460B held during Q1
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