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2026-08-06A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months (Wired)
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2026-08-06PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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2026-08-06How 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 (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
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2026-08-06Sources 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 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
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2026-08-06TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
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2026-08-06Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (Lawfare)
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2026-08-06Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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2026-08-06AppLovin reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $1.92B, below $1.94B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue within estimates; APP drops 16% after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-06Nikita 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 (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
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2026-08-06OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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2026-08-05At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20+ mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
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2026-08-05How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products (Mia Sato/The Verge)
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2026-08-05Innolight falls after a report said the US plans to restrict imports of new Chinese data center optical transceivers; 62% of its Q1 revenue came from the US (Reuters)
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2026-08-05A profile of livestream shopping app Whatnot, which added 20M accounts in 2025, facilitated the sale of ~$8B in goods, and is set for $1B+ in revenue in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-05Sources: 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 (Reuters)
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2026-08-05Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets for users to pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create virtual wallets for agentic shopping (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
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2026-08-05The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-05SpaceX reports Q2 revenue from connectivity, including Starlink, up 66% YoY to $4.29B, vs. $3.83B est., and Starlink subscribers up 100% to 12M, vs. 12.19M est. (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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2026-08-05House panel report: US telcos connected their systems to data centers in a way that exposed them to vulnerabilities, potentially enabling Salt Typhoon hacks (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-04OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations (Wired)
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2026-08-04Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.9B and an operating loss of $556M, above $361M est., due to a $409M data breach fine; CPNG drops 7%+ pre-market (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-04SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company aims to build out ground-based infrastructure to complement its satellite network for "a true mobile service" (Reuters)
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2026-08-04An 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 (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-04Match reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $853M, vs. $856.6M est., 13.3M paying users, vs. 13.4M est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 8%+ pre-market (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-04The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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2026-08-04A look at Alphabet's moonshot lab X and interviews with its staff, including CEO Astro Teller, on reinventing itself and what its next big thing might be (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
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2026-08-04Filing: Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info (Reuters)
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2026-08-04OpenAI disputes Apple's account of pre-lawsuit contacts, rejects claims that ex-staff used confidential information, shares iMessages and emails, and more (OpenAI)
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2026-08-04Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, ActivityPub, scaling moderation, Bluesky's reputation as a progressive social media network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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2026-08-04Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage (Nikkei Asia)
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2026-08-04Apple says it "briefly removed Telegram from the App Store" over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram "promptly removed the content and banned the user" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
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2026-08-04Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE "may" be a crime (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-04TikTok agrees to settle three more teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial; 2,600 cases with similar claims are pending in California federal court (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)
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2026-08-03Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune)
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2026-08-03Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple, after hitting $2T in June 2024; AMZN closed up 4.58% (Jeran Wittenstein/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-03Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, above $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ pre-market (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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2026-08-03Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, above $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 14%+ pre-market (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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2026-08-03Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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2026-08-03Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
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2026-08-03US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
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2026-08-03A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)
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2026-08-03An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking (Washington Post)
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2026-08-03A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain (Francesca Perry/Financial Times)
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2026-08-03Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-03Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)
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2026-08-03A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
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2026-08-03An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (New York Times)
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2026-08-03A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)
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