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Snapchat just took its firmest stand yet against the flood of low-quality artificial intelligence content. On July 31, 2026, the company announced that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer qualify for recommendations in Spotlight, its popular short-form video feed. The move comes as platforms across the industry scramble to preserve some sense of originality amid

Small modular reactors once lived mostly in the pages of engineering reports. Now they sit at the center of boardroom bets by the world’s largest technology companies. Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all signed deals or announced interest in nuclear power to feed the exploding electricity needs of data centers. The shift marks a stark

Wall Street has long chased mathematical talent. Now Silicon Valley does too. The competition between them has pushed compensation for some of the brightest young minds into seven figures before they turn 25. Flush with cash from sky-high valuations, artificial intelligence companies hunt the same graduates that hedge funds and proprietary trading shops have courted

Meta Platforms posted another quarter of solid ad revenue growth. Yet its free cash flow cratered. The gap between promise and payout in its artificial intelligence push grows harder to ignore. Second-quarter revenue climbed 28% to $60.8 billion. That beat expectations. Earnings per share came in at $6.18, missing forecasts of $7.22. The real shock

Chevron just logged its richest three months on record. ExxonMobil wasn’t far behind. Together the two energy giants pulled in more than $26 billion in profit during the second quarter as conflict in the Middle East tightened global oil supplies and sent prices higher. The numbers tell a stark story. Chevron reported net income of

Microsoft has spent years promising a better search experience in Windows. Users kept complaining. The company kept shipping updates that felt half-baked. Now, with changes landing in the 26H2 update and July 2026 preview builds, Windows Search finally prioritizes what matters to most people. Local results. Recent activity. Fewer distractions. The transformation shows up immediately

A Canadian artist stepped out of a small plane at 3,600 feet. Her iPhone 17 Pro didn’t. Minutes later the device sat face-up in a canola field. Untouched. Still working. Physics of the Fall Heather Cline never meant to test Apple’s latest flagship this way. The mixed-media artist from Saskatchewan wore her iPhone 17 Pro

Amazon delivered numbers that sent shares soaring more than 15% in after-hours trading. Total revenue hit $200.6 billion. That topped forecasts. But the real story sat inside AWS. The cloud unit posted $42.2 billion in sales. Growth reached 37%. It marked the fastest pace in 18 quarters. AWS Momentum Outpaces Expectations and Rivals Analysts had

Microsoft shares jumped more than 15 percent in trading after the company reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that exceeded forecasts. Revenue climbed to $90 billion. Profit rose 31 percent. Yet the standout figure came from its cloud business. Azure revenue for the full fiscal year topped $100 billion for the first time. Growth hit 41 percent.

Google moved fast. On a Thursday in late July it rolled out an experimental feature inside Google Earth. Users on desktop could zoom to any spot on the planet, tap a button and type a prompt. The company’s Nano Banana 2 model would then generate an image blending real satellite, aerial and 3D data with