Tech

SoftBank reports Q1 net profit down 18% YoY to ~$2.2B, above ~$761M est., an ~$8.2B gain on its Intel stake, and Vision Fund up $1.7B due to its ByteDance stake (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Intel

Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Nintendo

BMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 AI

DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; it currently charges $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens for V4 Flash (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6

OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6 AI Apple

OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 iPhone AI Apple

An interview with TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn on the paid API for high-speed access to Truth Social posts, the pending $6B TMTG-TAE merger, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Interview

A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months (www.wired.com)
2026-8-6 Korea

How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Trump

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

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