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Meta reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $39.07B, net income up 73% to $13.47B, and family daily active people up 7% to 3.27B on average for June 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
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Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find new apps, updates the in-app browser to support multiple tabs, and says its mini apps have 500M MAUs — Telegram is refining the in-app expereince, adding a new way to interact with the browser and a Mini App Store for native applications.
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to scrape Reddit's data, and blocking them has been “a real pain in the ass” — After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data.
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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.
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Discord on Xbox adds the ability to watch friends' Discord streams whether they're sharing from a PC, mobile phone, or Xbox, rolling out over the coming weeks — Microsoft and Discord are greatly improving the integration of the communication platform into Xbox consoles.
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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 …
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Google unveils updates to its Gemma family of open models, including Gemma 2 2B, which it claims surpasses GPT-3.5 and Mixtral 8x7B on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena — Google has unveiled updates to its Gemma 2 family of open-source language models, focusing on improved performance, safety, and transparency.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.21B est., handset chip sales up 12% YoY to $5.9B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — - Company says phone units will be ‘flattish’ this year — Upbeat revenue forecast had buoyed stock after earnings report
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 beta hands-on: meaningful Siri language understanding improvements and Siri text input is nice, but few other notable features — In iOS 18's latest developer preview, Siri gets a glow-up. Like, the whole phone actually glows around the edges when you invoke Siri.| Tales Azzoni / Associated Press: |
The Premier League, Bundesliga, DAZN, Sky, UEFA, CONMEBOL, and others write to X CEO Linda Yaccarino demanding more action against illegal soccer content on X — Some of Europe's main broadcasters and top soccer leagues have sent a letter to the CEO of social media platform X, Linda Yaccarino … | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Tether reports a “record” $5.2B net profit in H1 2024, net operating profit of $1.3B in Q2, and $97.6B US debt holdings, more than Germany and other countries — The company said its $97 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries would put it 18th in the ranking among countries.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Arm reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $939M vs. $905.4M est., license and other revenue up 72%, and maintains its outlook for FY 2025; ARM drops 10%+ — - Company doesn't boost outlook despite topping earnings views — CEO says weakness in certain markets is offsetting sales gains
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While owning less than 1% of TSMC, the number of retail shareholders hit a new high in 2024, as locals believe TSMC's success helps Taiwan fend off China — - Chipmaker is dubbed ‘holy mountain that safeguards the nation’ — Number of retail shareholders has reached a record this year| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
US senators unveil the bipartisan NO FAKES Act, which would make individuals and companies liable for producing, hosting, or sharing unauthorized AI deepfakes — OpenAI joined several entertainment industry groups in backing the NO FAKES Act. — Today, a group of senators introduced the NO FAKES Act … | 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 …
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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.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI tells US lawmakers that it is “dedicated” to “rigorous safety protocols at every stage of our process” and is working with the US AI Safety Institute — OpenAI, responding to questions from US lawmakers, said it's dedicated to making sure its powerful AI tools …
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Investigation: 2020 to 2023 data shows how thousands of middlemen game the H-1B program and companies that farm out IT workers exploit the US lottery system — Each year in April, the US government conducts a lottery that shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people — and America's future as an economic power.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU's AI Act takes effect, triggering compliance deadlines for a range of AI developers and apps; most provisions will be fully applicable by mid-2026 — It's official: The European Union's risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence has come into force from Thursday, August 1, 2024.
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
WBD, Disney, and Fox plan to launch their joint sports streaming venture Venu for $42.99 per month initially, with a seven-day free trial, expected fall 2024 — Streaming sports on a stand-alone basis won't be cheap. … The service is expected to debut in the fall in conjunction with the start of the next NFL season.| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes — Byju's, Paytm falter in stark reminder of the unique risks and challenges facing the country's tech economy.
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| Chris Kay / Financial Times: |
Infosys confirms that Indian authorities hit the IT giant with a $3.9B tax demand, covering July 2017 to March 2022, the latest company to get such a demand — Leading tech services provider is latest corporate champion to be handed surprise bill by revenue collectors
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