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Tech & AI Daily — Thursday, August 6, 2026

Google DeepMind undergoes its biggest leadership shake-up ever: Demis Hassabis steps back to Chair and Jeff Dean exits, signaling a major strategic realignment at one of AI's most powerful labs. • Meta launches Muse Code, a terminal-native agentic coding tool, entering the fierce AI coding arena against Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex — though it still trails on benchmarks. • Palantir surges 30% on a $1 billion profit quarter; CEO Alex Karp calls rival AI labs 'Marxist' and unfit for enterprise, reinforcing the enterprise-AI software rotation thesis. • Google Maps goes agentic — it…

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