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• 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 (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
• Block reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $6.62B, vs. $6.49B est., Cash App gross profit up 31% to $1.97B, and raises its FY 2026 gross profit forecast (Manya Saini/Reuters)
• Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
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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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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• Senate advances the latest Kids Online Safety Act out of committee
• Minecraft is coming to Switch 2 on October 27
• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down, but will remain with the company
• Meta apps displayed ads that contained AI-generated CSAM
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• Corsair just introduced new gaming keyboards with a control dial and a mouse with great battery life
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• Xbox's devastating July was inevitable
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• Disney partners with TikTok to bring fan-made shorts to Disney+
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