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YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-11 YouTube

Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (arstechnica.com)
2026-8-11 Android Google

Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as September, and is negotiating with TSMC to make 300K+ in 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-10 Microsoft AI

Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes like “maintaining a strong balance sheet”; INTC falls 3%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 Intel

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-10 Google

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 Microsoft

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-10 Spotify

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (asimovaddendum.substack.com)
2026-8-9 Google AI

Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 Google Chrome

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 Google Amazon Microsoft Oracle

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-9 Amazon AI

How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-8 Amazon California

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-8 Google Microsoft Chrome

Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-8-7 Google

Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (www.ft.com)
2026-8-7 Google AI

Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 India Google

Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $3.6B, Nights and Seats Booked up 10% to 148.3M, above est., lifts 2026 revenue forecast; ABNB jumps 10%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Airbnb

Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticulous” tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 Google

OpenAI introduces Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says its steering committee includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Cursor (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-7 Amazon Microsoft

Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model (www.wired.com)
2026-8-7 Google

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Google AI

Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (www.zdnet.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-6 YouTube Netflix

Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

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

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

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

Europe's Billion-Dollar Google Fine Is a Shot at American Sovereignty (www.heritage.org)
2026-8-6 Europe U.S. Google

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