According to an Odaily newsflash citing Jin10, a U.S. Department of Defense source told CNN that operations related to Iran are currently in a "pause" status. The report said the United States had previously carried out strikes on Iran for 13 consecutive nights, but those military actions now appear to have stopped. U.S. Central Command did not announce a new round of strikes on Iran on either Friday or Saturday. It remains unclear whether that indicates the U.S. military did not take action against Iran over the past two days.

Google’s latest earnings showed search advertising revenue hit a record $63.271 billion, up 17% year over year, even as several major U.S. news publishers saw sharp declines in organic search traffic. That contrast is driving a new standoff between publishers and Google. Reddit, Reuters, Politico and The Economist are among the media groups reported to be considering limits on Google’s access, arguing that AI-generated search summaries are keeping users on Google’s results page instead of sending them to original sources. Data cited in the report shows why publishers are alarmed: when no AI summary appears, 15% of users click a traditional link; with an AI summary, that falls to 8%, while just 1% click links embedded inside the summary. The problem is compounded by the fact that Google uses the same crawler infrastructure for search indexing and AI-related data collection, leaving publishers with no simple way to block one while preserving the other. Reddit’s existing annual licensing deal with Google, worth about $60 million, is now nearing expiration, and renewal talks remain ongoing.

TechFlowPost’s latest market and technology roundup spans AI, crypto, chips, U.S. equities and macro developments, with several stories standing out across sectors. In AI, Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announced he was joining OpenAI on the day of his award ceremony, while Anthropic released its Claude Cookbook examples library and discussions around an OpenAI-Hugging Face incident pushed AI safety back into focus. In crypto, the attacker tied to the Drift Protocol exploit moved $44.4 million into Tornado Cash, according to Lookonchain and PeckShield, while Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was reportedly used to promote a fake token. On the chip side, AMD expanded its AI push through a partnership with Cerebras and rolled out its Helios rack-scale AI system, while Intel reported $16.13 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 25% year over year, beating expectations and sending its shares up 13% after hours. Tech stocks broadly sold off, with the “Mag 7” losing nearly $800 billion in market value in a day. At the same time, Brent crude moved above $100 and spot gold returned to $4,100 as geopolitical tensions involving Iran, the U.S. and shipping routes added pressure across global markets.

According to CNN, U.S. Central Command had been announcing strikes on Iran on an almost daily basis over the past nearly two weeks, with posts appearing for 13 consecutive nights saying it was hitting military targets inside Iran. That pattern broke on Friday night, when no such announcement was issued. BlockBeats, citing CNN on July 25, said U.S. military authorities did not announce any strike action against Iran on Friday night, which corresponded to Saturday morning Beijing time. The report noted that Central Command had repeatedly used social media to disclose operations targeting military sites in Iran, but no comparable post appeared during Friday night in U.S. Eastern Time. CNN said it remains unclear whether the absence of a public announcement means the U.S. military did not carry out any action against Iran that night. The report did not offer a definitive conclusion beyond noting the break in the run of nightly statements.

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