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06 Aug 2026

Block Raises 2026 Outlook as AI Agents Drive 150% Surge in Engineering Productivity

Block lifted its full-year 2026 guidance after reporting strong Q2 results driven by AI adoption across software engineering. Agentic AI tools now touch nearly all production code changes, helping code changes per engineer jump 150% since early 2026. Cash App and Square gross profit rose 25% year-over-year to $3.17 billion.

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Vanderbilt develops AI tool to cut Alzheimer's treatment delays from weeks to days

Vanderbilt Health secured a $600,000 grant from Eli Lilly and Company to build an AI triage agent within electronic health record systems that accelerates Alzheimer's treatment. The tool aims to eliminate weeks-long delays between referral and first infusion by summarizing patient charts, flagging missing information, and prioritizing cases while preserving clinical judgment.

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Google Home Update Brings Interactive Storytelling with Gemini, Smarter Alarms & Expanded Camera Support

Google rolled out a significant update for Google Home devices, introducing AI-powered interactive storytelling with Gemini that lets families co-create stories and remix classic tales in real-time. The update also delivers smarter alarms and timers, expanded camera support for brands like Eufy, Wyze, and Reolink, and fixes the persistent Google Speaker ring light bug.

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Sapiom Raises $35M Series A to Slash AI Agent Costs as Companies Scrutinize Spending

San Francisco startup Sapiom secured $35 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly to tackle escalating AI agent costs. The platform sits between AI agents and models, routing calls to the cheapest capable option and enforcing budgets before spending occurs. One customer, Polsia, slashed its monthly bill from $1.2 million to $100,000 after implementing Sapiom's cost optimization infrastructure.

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Zeta Global Q2 Results Show 44% Growth as AI Infrastructure Pivot Faces Profitability Questions

Zeta Global delivered its 20th consecutive beat-and-raise quarters with $443 million in Q2 revenue, up 44% year-over-year. The intelligent AI infrastructure provider raised full-year guidance while repositioning from marketing SaaS to AI infrastructure through partnerships with OpenAI, Palantir, and Snowflake. However, GAAP EPS of $0.03 missed analyst consensus of $0.1995, triggering a 7.05% after-hours stock decline despite operational strength.

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Mitti Labs Raises $9.5M Led by Aramco Ventures to Scale Water-Resilient Rice Farming Across Asia

Climate-tech startup Mitti Labs has secured $9.5 million in Series A funding led by Aramco Ventures to expand water-resilient rice farming solutions across Asia. The platform combines satellite imagery and AI to help over 100,000 farmers reduce water use by 40% and methane emissions by over 50% while generating carbon credits for additional income.

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AI Models Nearly Erase Female Characters When Writing Kids' Stories, Study Finds

A University of Washington study tested six leading AI models across 23,800 story completions and found a shocking pattern: just 2% featured female animal characters. While AI alignment guardrails aimed to reduce gender bias, they instead erased female representation, defaulting to neutral pronouns (57%) or male characters (41%) in AI-generated children's stories.

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SoundHound AI Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations as SOUN Stock Surges 26% on Revenue Growth

SoundHound AI reported Q2 revenue of $61.9 million, surpassing analyst estimates by $9.5 million with 45% year-over-year growth. The conversational AI company raised its fiscal 2026 revenue guidance and saw SOUN stock spike 26.44% in premarket trading, potentially fueled by a short squeeze affecting 42.35% of its public float.

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ECB Says AI Investment Helps Stabilize Euro Zone Economy Amid 0.4% Uncertainty Drag

The European Central Bank reports that business investment toward intangible assets like AI is mitigating economic uncertainty's impact on the euro zone. While uncertainty from wars and trade friction reduced growth by 0.4% between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026, oversized AI spending is providing a crucial buffer for the region's 1% projected growth in 2026.

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Pegasystems Expands FedRAMP Certification for AI-Powered Government Cloud Tools

Pegasystems has expanded its FedRAMP Class D Certified capabilities within Pega Cloud for Government, adding AI-powered workflow automation, decisioning, and process optimization tools. Federal agencies can now access these mission-critical capabilities while maintaining compliance with federal security standards.

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05 Aug 2026

Major Hedge Funds Targeted in Coordinated AI Voice Scam Cyber Attacks on Wall Street

Several top hedge funds including Citadel, Point72, Two Sigma, and Millennium Management were targeted by sophisticated audio phishing scams using AI-powered voice cloning technology. The coordinated cyber attacks attempted to trick employees into revealing login credentials by impersonating trusted colleagues and IT staff.

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Meta Launches Muse Code AI Coding Agent to Challenge OpenAI Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code

Meta introduced Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, designed to handle complex software engineering tasks across large code bases. The tool runs multiple sub-agents simultaneously and offers pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens, positioning Meta to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI on both capability and cost.

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Meta Approved and Profited from AI-Generated CSAM Ads for Nine Months, Investigation Reveals

Meta ran over 50 paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads between November 2025 and August 2026. The Tech Transparency Project discovered the ads in Meta's own ad library, with some reaching 2,563 accounts in Europe while the company collected ad revenue.

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AMD Announces IFA 2026 Opening Keynote Focused on Era of Personal AI and Consumer Computing

AMD confirms Jack Huynh will deliver the opening keynote at IFA 2026 on September 4, titled 'The Era of Personal AI: The Future of Imagination.' The presentation promises to reveal AMD's vision for AI-driven computing, with potential announcements around Ryzen AI MAX 400 and FSR Diamond technology updates.

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Fiserv and Stuut Partner to Deploy AI Agents in Accounts Receivable for Enterprise Finance Teams

Fiserv announced a strategic partnership with Stuut Technologies to modernize B2B accounts receivable processes using AI agents. The collaboration integrates Fiserv Commerce Hub and SnapPay platform with Stuut's AI-enabled automation to streamline collections and cash application, disputes and deductions for eligible enterprises.

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