Alphabet's Q2 beat estimates, but a $205 billion capex forecast, negative free cash flow and a monthly SpaceX compute deal defined investor reaction.
Patreon's second mass layoff in four years lands days after its Cloudflare deal to block AI scrapers, a bet on human creators over efficiency.
WhatsApp's Android Auto app finally matches what CarPlay got in April, revealing a bigger Meta push to make WhatsApp work beyond a single phone.
Anthropic's Claude voice mode now runs on Opus and Sonnet and can act inside Gmail, Slack and Notion, betting reasoning beats real-time speech.
Stairway Games ends Funguys Swarm's Early Access on August 25, betting Coral Island's goodwill on gaming's most crowded roguelite genre.
Motorola's Razr 70 Ultra costs $300 more than its predecessor with half the storage, an early sign of the AI memory shortage reshaping 2026 phone prices.
Microsoft's Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC ships four classic games first, but the rollout also road tests the Windows hardware behind Project Helix.
OnePlus's N6x revives a 3.5mm jack and multi-day battery for India's squeezed budget buyers, but leaks show it may undercut its own N6 sibling.
Sony's Monitor & Control app now runs EL Zone, the Hollywood exposure tool monitor makers charge thousands for, free on Alpha and Cinema Line cameras.
Amazon's fix for Luna's six-year discovery problem drops the Luna name entirely, folding free cloud games into a new Prime Video Games tab for Fire TV.