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PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Google Startup AI

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Intel AI

New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

TikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6

Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 (www.lawfaremedia.org)
2026-8-6

Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-6 AI Browser

AppLovin reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $1.92B, below $1.94B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue within estimates; APP drops 16% after hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-6

Nikita Bier steps down as head of product at X after a little more than a year in the role and says he will continue as an adviser (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-6

OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hack (www.wired.com)
2026-8-6 AI

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 (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-6 AI

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (therecord.media)
2026-8-6 Canada AT&T

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 (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Waymo CEO Explains Why Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls Short (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.morningstar.com)
2026-8-6 4Q

Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6 Canada

Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 AI GitHub

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6

Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading product for X and continue as an adviser (x.com)
2026-8-6

Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Salesforce

Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 AI

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6 eBay

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. (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-6

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Microsoft AI

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