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2026-07-29In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole (CNBC)
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2026-07-29Source and docs: Intel has given access to its Atom processor tech to Rosaic, a new startup led by Amarjit Gill; Lip-Bu Tan and Gill are longtime co-investors (Reuters)
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2026-07-29Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-29Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.29B est., event contracts revenue up over 10x to $156M, and crypto revenue down 38% to $100M (Bill Peters/MarketWatch)
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2026-07-29Microsoft reports Q4 Windows OEM and Devices revenue down 7% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, and Xbox content and services revenue down 10% (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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2026-07-29CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market cap on July 28 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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2026-07-29Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant (Reuters)
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2026-07-29A look at Kioxia, the Japanese NAND flash maker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026 (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-29GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's earlier investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with similar issues (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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2026-07-29Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29OpenAI releases an "early" version of the open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding CI/CD security checks, and more (@openai)
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2026-07-29Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviews or vetting could be positive if "done well with thoughtful people" (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
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2026-07-29Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-29OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from "four accounts" tied to four "publicly available" third-party services (Wired)
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2026-07-29xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment (Riley Moser/CBS News)
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2026-07-29SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to ~$54.34B, below ~$57.56B est., and operating profit up 557% YoY to ~$41.48B, below ~$43.85B est.; its stock falls 9% (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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