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Tech & AI Daily — Thursday, August 6, 2026

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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 now books food orders and hotels directly inside the app, marking one of the most concrete mass-scale deployments of agentic AI yet. • Suno adds audio watermarking amid copyright battles, as AI-generated music is confirmed to already be charting — the first real step toward provenance in AI audio.