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Alphabet - Investor Relations:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $74.6B, up 7% YoY, net income of $18.37B, up from $16B YoY, Google Cloud revenue of $8.03B, up from $6.28B YoY; GOOG is up 6%+  —  Announces Plans for Chief Financial Officer Transition and Appointment of President and Chief Investment Officer MOUNTAIN VIEW …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google says 2B+ logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, up from 1.5B+ in June 2022, and YouTube is reaching 150M people on their TVs in the US  —  Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels.
More: CNBC
CNBC:
Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat will become the President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google, overseeing Other Bets, effective September 1, 2023
Wall Street Journal:
Emails: X offers discounts on new video ads in the US and UK and warns advertisers that they will lose verified status unless they reach spending thresholds  —  Social-media site X is offering hefty discounts to lure back ad dollars  —  X Corp. is cutting ad prices as it tries to woo brands back to the Elon Musk-owned platform.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
More: Business Today, Washington Post, Popular Mechanics, Watcher Guru, TIME, MobileSyrup, PetaPixel, Insider, Why Evolution Is True, Metro.co.uk, Gizmodo, Newser, The Verge, Agence France-Presse, gHacks Technology News, Macworld, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Insider, and Manton Reece
LinkedIn: Donita Prakash, Timø Ronan, Alex Kantrowitz, and Leela Srinivasan.  Bluesky: @mmasnick.bsky.social
Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social, @Renee@mastodon.social, and @lauren@mastodon …
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Threads: @taylorlorenz, @keithedwards, @shellen, and @crumbler
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says the X rebrand isn't “simply a company renaming itself” but a move to remake Twitter into a platform for communications and financial transactions
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism
Microsoft - Investor Relations:
Microsoft reports Q4 net income up 20% YoY to $20.1B, revenue up 8% YoY to $56.2B, Office Commercial up 12% YoY, Dynamics 365 up 26% YoY, and LinkedIn up 5% YoY  —  , as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:  · Revenue was $56.2 billion and increased 8% (up 10% in constant currency)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft reports Q4 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 15% YoY to $23.99B, vs. $23.79B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 26% YoY
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft reports Q4 devices revenue down 20% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 1% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13% YoY, and Windows OEM revenue down 12% YoY
Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian:
A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity  —  Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques”  —  In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world …
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Browser Company launches Arc on macOS and iOS after a two-year waitlist; the browser helps users take notes, redesign webpages, organize tabs, and more  —  Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist.  The company has been testing the app …
Josh Sisco / Politico:
Sources: the FTC is finalizing its antitrust suit against Amazon and is likely to file its case in federal court rather than its own tribunal as soon as August  —  A case would be a high-water mark for FTC Chair Lina Khan who gained prominence criticizing the company's dominance.
Jeff Wilser / CoinDesk:
A look at the origins of Worldcoin's eye-scanning orb, how the company is trying to safeguard user privacy, its tokenomics, policy challenges, and more  —  Is Sam Altman's UBI startup a smart countermeasure to AI, or a privacy nightmare?  Jeff Wilser reports.  —  I've traveled to Berlin to stare into the future.
Anto Antony / Bloomberg:
A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju's CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but is expecting a $1B equity investment as early as August  —  - Indian firm has struggled to overcome issues with liquidity  — US investors accused Byju's of hiding half a billion dollars
More: Tech in Asia, Livemint, MediaNama, Reuters, and TechCrunch
LinkedIn: Anto Antony.  Twitter: @pelstrom and @kanthan2030

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

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Lauren Tara LaCapra / The Information:
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
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Earlier Picks

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week
Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit:
As open web advocates raise concerns over the Web Environment Integrity proposal, a look at a similar Apple system shipped in 2022 to make Captchas unnecessary
TechCrunch:
Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August to sell made-in-China goods to consumers and rival Shein and Temu
Elissa Miolene / Mercury News:
At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August
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