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Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 (@artificialanlys)
HPE reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $12.2B, vs. $11.9B est., forecasts FY 2026 and FY 2027 sales growth above est., signs a $3.5B server deal with a cloud firm (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 20%+ after hours (MarketWatch)
Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI systems (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are "coming soon" (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 (Ina Fried/Axios)
Uber is shutting down services in Nigeria and Uganda from September 2 after a global review of its operations; it launched in Nigeria in 2014 and Uganda in 2016 (Bloomberg)
X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says "we trust Anthropic" as they are "back on the right side" with the administration and that "they've done what we asked" (Maria Curi/Axios)
Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)
MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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Engadget

UN report says global warming will surpass the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius
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NYC bans the use of generative AI tools in public schools for students through eighth grade
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Google won't be forced to sell its ad exchange following antitrust ruling
Rare, working Apple I computer heads to auction
Digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses leaked to the dark web
Uber is cutting around 3,000 jobs in the name of efficiency
Nintendo's surprise free update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch 2 includes eight-player split-screen
Star Wars Zero Company is a great game that's busted and may never be fixed
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United Airlines will deliver food and other essentials to your gate
iRobot's new $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo is its most powerful robot yet
Acer's Predator Atlas 7 is the brand's smaller handheld gaming flagship model
Acer's new monitors include a 24-inch, 1,000Hz screen for esports sickos
Acer's Vero 16 laptop is built to be easily repaired
Acer shows off its AI desktop future with the RTX Spark design
Acer's Project DualPlay Mini is a gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop
The Dell 14S is yet another cheap laptop chasing the MacBook Neo
GTA VI extended look got 31 million views on Netflix despite six-hour exclusivity window

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