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300,000 Users Outweighed A 75 Million Dollar Beat
Reddit revenue rose 61 percent to 805 million dollars and beat guidance, but US daily uniques slipped to 53.2 million and the stock fell more than 10 percent. The licensing line grew slowest.
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Issuing an Agent an Identity Is the Cheap Half
Okta agreed to buy Permiso Security on 30 July, reportedly for just under 200 million dollars. The second agent-identity acquisition in four days.
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The Scheduler and the Meter Now Have One Owner
Nscale agreed on 30 July to buy Anyscale for a reported 1.65 billion dollars. Ray stays open source. The control plane that places your jobs does not.
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A Customs Refund Paid For Apple's Earnings Beat
Apple earned 2.02 dollars per share in its June quarter, and 11 cents of that came from tariff refunds. Strip them out and a 13 cent beat becomes 2 cents.
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AWS Now Earns 60 Percent Of Amazon's Profit
Amazon reported 27.5 billion dollars of operating income for Q2 2026 and AWS supplied 16.6 billion of it. The guidance for next quarter is lower. Here is why that matters at renewal.
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A Vendor You Never Hired Holds Your Tenant Keys
Inforcer raised 50 million dollars on 30 July to manage Microsoft 365 for managed providers. The firm with the deepest reach into your tenant is one you never signed.
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Splitting AI Risk Across Chips And Power Failed
A 20 billion dollar fund was short the chip layer and long the power layer. Both fell together in July. What that means if you buy compute from that cohort.
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Count the Paid Seats Before You Buy Agentic EDA
ChipAgents extended its Series A to 134 million dollars. Micron and MediaTek sit on both the investor list and the customer list, which changes what the count proves.
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A $15bn Capex Cut That Cancelled Nothing
Microsoft's calendar-2026 capex expectation fell from 190 billion dollars to 175 billion. Its finance chief said the underlying spend is unchanged.
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Meta Kept Five Cents of Every Profit Dollar
Meta grew revenue 28 percent and still ended the quarter with 784 million dollars of free cash flow. The number that matters is the floor of its capex range, which rose while the ceiling held.
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Growing Eightfold Did Not Keep Wexler Independent
Legora bought London litigation AI firm Wexler on 29 July, its fifth acquisition since March. Wexler was growing eightfold a year. That is why it sold.
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Staff Cashed Out Four Months After the Round
9fin ran its first employee share sale on 28 July, four months after a 170 million dollar Series C. The design of the window matters more than the price.
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The Operator Brief
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