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Index Ventures is set to receive $11B+ in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Google IPO AI

Microsoft warns of high-severity flaw in hybrid Exchange deployments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

Google Gemini now makes studying even more engaging than before: Here's how (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago Google

Microsoft imagines a future Windows with AI agents replacing keyboard and mouse (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI

Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

Uber in talks with banks, private equity firms to fund robotaxi expansion (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago Uber Equity

Sen. Tom cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to China and subpoenas during his tenure as Cadence Design CEO (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago China Intel

Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack (www.wired.com)
15 days ago Google

Google rejects claims of AI in search hurting web traffic, says quality clicks on the rise (indianexpress.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K+ jobs (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
15 days ago India Google Amazon Microsoft Apple Netflix

Microsoft relied on China-based engineers to maintain SharePoint On-Premises, which Microsoft said in July was exploited by Chinese hackers to breach US systems (www.propublica.org)
15 days ago China Microsoft

Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Trump Google

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI 4Q

A profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the company pushes into live shows and sports (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Netflix

Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Europe U.S. Asia Africa Latin America Spotify

Amazon denies it is closing its Wondery podcast studio, but says it will break up its operations; a source says ~110 jobs will be cut due to the reorganization (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Amazon

Google unveils benchmarking platform Kaggle Game Arena, where LLMs compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament from August 5 to 7 (siliconangle.com)
15 days ago Google

Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Google

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google (nymag.com)
15 days ago Google AI chatbot

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs (www.theinformation.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, as often as Wikipedia and ahead of YouTube and others (pressgazette.co.uk)
15 days ago AI YouTube Reddit

Sources: Intel's 18A process yield has remained low, with only ~5% of its Panther Lake chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago Intel

The US General Services Administration approves OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for AI contracts with civilian federal agencies via its Multiple Award Schedule (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Google AI

Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago Google

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, its API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI, with the same pricing as Opus 4 (www.anthropic.com)
15 days ago Google Amazon AI

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance (www.geekwire.com)
15 days ago Microsoft AI

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Uber

Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% to $46.8B, trips up 18% to 3.3B, income up 82% to $1.5B, and authorizes a $20B share buyback (t.co)
15 days ago Uber

Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; SHOP closes up 22% (www.reuters.com)
15 days ago Shopify

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