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Meta:
Meta Q2: revenue up 22% YoY to $39.07B, net income up 73% to $13.47B, family daily active people up 7% to 3.27B on average for June; META jumps 5%+ after hours  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta's Reality Labs posts Q2 revenue up 28% YoY of $353M, vs. $371M est., and operating loss of $4.48B, vs. $4.55B est.; Reality Labs has lost ~$50B since 2020
New York Times:
Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Mark Cuban, Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, and 100+ other VCs pledge to vote for Kamala Harris and solicit donations for her campaign  —  The group, including Democratic donors such as Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla, has been organized under an effort called VCsForKamala.
CNBC:
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the CrowdStrike-caused outage will cost the company $500M, after canceling 6,000+ flights, and Delta will seek damages  —  WATCH NOW  —  Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says that a nine-hour outage on July 30, which disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a DDoS attack  —  Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide …
Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
Bungie says it will lay off 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, and integrate an additional 155 roles into its parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment  —  “Today is a difficult and painful day.”  —  Destiny developer Bungie has today announced significant cuts at the studio …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google rolls out online safety features to make removing explicit deepfakes from Search at scale easier and to prevent them from appearing high up in results  —  Google is rolling out new online safety features that make it easier to remove explicit deepfakes from Search at scale and prevent …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the US plans to unveil a new rule next month to stop chipmaking equipment exports from some countries to China, exempting allies like the Netherlands  —  The Biden administration plans to unveil a new rule next month that will expand U.S. powers to stop exports of semiconductor …
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/mo. to use OpenAI's models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the total revenue that service was generating  —  Microsoft has had success reselling OpenAI's artificial intelligence to its cloud customers, a core part of its plan to build a new multibillion-dollar profit machine.
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
A ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit OneBlood, which has asked over 250 hospitals in the US to activate their critical blood shortage protocols  —  A cyberattack has hit a blood-donation nonprofit that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern US.
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Tether reports “record” net profit of $5.2B in H1 2024, net operating profit of $1.3B in Q2, and US debt holdings of $97.6B, more than countries like Germany  —  The company said its $97 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries would put it 18th in the ranking among countries.
CNBC:
Nvidia shares jump 10%+ after Microsoft and AMD signaled no slowdown in the buildout of AI servers built around GPUs; Microsoft spent $19B on capex in Q4  —  Nvidia shares popped 13% Wednesday after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled there wouldn't be a slowdown …
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
eBay reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.57B, vs. $2.53B est., GMV up 1% to $18.4B, net income up 31% to $226M, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates  —  EBay (EBAY.O) forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, a sign that demand is slowing down for collectible items, luxury handbags and watches.
More: Bloomberg and eBay Inc.
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Spotify plans to expand the availability of lyrics for Spotify Free users in the “coming weeks”; paid subscribers could access unlimited lyrics since May 2024  —  The company capped access at three songs per month in May.  —  Spotify users who don't pay for a subscription …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
District of Columbia AG Brian Schwalb sues StubHub, alleging the company uses a “bait-and-switch” technique where it advertises “deceptively low” ticket prices  —  StubHub is facing a new lawsuit that accuses the ticketing service of hiding fees from customers until the very end of the purchasing process.
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
An investigation found 450+ illicit drug ads on Facebook and Instagram from March to June 2024, including some still running as recently as July 26  —  Instagram and Facebook, already under federal investigation, continue to run ads for illegal drugs, including ads showing piles of pills and bricks of cocaine
Steve Smith / SlashGear:
Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra review: premium materials and build quality, and powerful Exynos processor, but too expensive, large, bulky, and only one size  —  - Premium materials and build quality - Significantly improved GPS tracking - New powerful Exynos processor - Excellent activity and sleep tracking

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: new Doctor Who episodes are likely to remain off TV until at least 2028; the BBC says it will use a competitive process to find producers for Season 16

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
The Washington Post faces a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company covertly used surveillance pricing to charge loyal subscribers higher rates

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney study: the Toy Story franchise has driven $16B in total revenue for the company over 30 years; nearly half of the revenue was generated domestically

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Earlier Picks

Alex Heath / The Verge:
After users reported that Meta's generative AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted Donald Trump assassination did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations
Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 23.42% YoY to ~$53.45B, vs. ~$53.3B est., and operating profit up 1,458% YoY to ~$7.5B, as AI memory chip demand remains strong
Wall Street Journal:
How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY
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