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Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away fro...

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Figma reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $370.1M, vs. $351.6M est., and lifts annual revenue forecast but keeps profit outlook intact; FIG drops 15%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)

Figma reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $370.1M, vs...

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Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's ...

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Sandisk reports Q4 revenue up 372% YoY to $8.97B, vs. $8.48B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; SNDK drops 5%+ after hours (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)

Sandisk reports Q4 revenue up 372% YoY to $8.97B, ...

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Duolingo reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $298.5M, paid subscribers up 17% to 12.7M, below est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; DUOL drops 11%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Duolingo reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $298.5M,...

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DoorDash reports Q2 marketplace gross order value up 36% YoY to $33.08B, vs. $32.08B est., and forecasts Q3 marketplace GOV and adjusted EBITDA above estimates (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters)

DoorDash reports Q2 marketplace gross order value ...

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Binance affiliates are suing RedotPay's founders for allegedly diverting 470K+ users to a competing product in a "fraudulent scheme", claiming $472.8M in losses (Bloomberg)

Binance affiliates are suing RedotPay's founders f...

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Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief reven...

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Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading product for X and continue as an adviser (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)

Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading pr...

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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 (Reuters)

eBay reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $3.13B, vs. ...

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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. (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Etsy says it will cut ~220 employees, or ~12% of i...

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 "contrib...

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Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales (Bloomberg)

Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from ...

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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 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding...

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Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (Business Insider)

Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by J...

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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 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' I...

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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 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of t...

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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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previ...

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