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HPE secures court approval for its settlement with the US DOJ over its takeover of networking company Juniper, defeating a challenge by Democratic state AGs (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
Tech hardware companies report the highest US CBP tariff refunds at $2.5B across six companies, including $2.2B in refunds to Apple alone; Amazon received $640M (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: AMD plans to raise as much as $5B in what could be the chipmaker's biggest-ever investment-grade bond sale, as it ramps up spending to meet AI demand (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
DeepSeek raises prices, adding dynamic pricing, ahead of a potential IPO; V4-Flash output tokens go from $0.28/1M to $1.32 during peak hours and $0.66 off-peak (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Flock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the startup "got this one wrong" and says Flock is assuming greater responsibility for how law enforcement uses its tech (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it says will be the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
Flock says it will now require US law enforcement to label every license plate search with a criminal case number, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse (Washington Post)
Didi reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$9.3B, a ~$128M net income after two consecutive quarterly losses, and China mobility transaction value up 9% to ~$13.4B (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Accelerant, which uses data analytics to connect insurance underwriters with risk capital partners, agrees to go private with Thoma Bravo in a $4.4B deal (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
JD.com reports Q2 revenue down 2.9% YoY to ~$51.4B and net income of ~$1.1B, above ~$964M est., driven by JD Retail profitability and narrowing food losses (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$3B, net profit up 3x+ to ~$479.2M, above ~$283.1M est., and a 25.3% gross margin, driven by strong mature-node orders (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
Filings and sources: Microsoft closed 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, amid China pushing domestic software since 2017 (Reuters)
CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's ~$510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO (Bloomberg)

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