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An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
Match reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $853M, vs. $856.6M est., 13.3M paying users, vs. 13.4M est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 8%+ after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (Maria Curi/Axios)
SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.15B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, forecasts Q3 revenue in line with estimates; PINS drops 8%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, vs. $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, forecasts Q3 revenue below some estimates; AMD drops 7%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and AI segment operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est.; SPCX drops 5%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News)
Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)

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Texas governor orders audit of new data centers after realizing over 400 gigawatts of power is a lot
The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed
Telegram CEO says 'takedown extortionist' was responsible for the app being briefly delisted by Apple
Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon's injunction on its AI shopping bot
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SpaceX's first public earnings statement shows the financials of an AI company in 2026
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DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations
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Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors
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