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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.| 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 … | 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.| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/month to use OpenAI's models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the total revenue the 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.
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The US SEC sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi, accusing him of a $170M fraud by misleading investors about the company's growth and concealing personal expenses — Abraham Shafi allegedly hoodwinked backers and spent millions of dollars on personal expenses — NEW| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenSecrets: the number of groups lobbying the US government on AI grew from 459 in 2023 to 556 in H1 2024; OpenAI spent $800K in H1 2024, up from $260K in 2023 — AI lobbying at the U.S. federal level is intensifying in the midst of a continued generative AI boom and an election year that could influence future AI regulation.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Staff memo: Samsung's chip business head Jun Young-hyun warns Samsung risks getting into a “vicious cycle” if the company does not revamp its workplace culture — - Jun Young-hyun replaced his predecessor just a few months ago — It's trying to catch SK Hynix in the hot AI memory chip market| Bloomberg: |
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
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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.
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A look at Baidu's experiment with driverless taxis in Wuhan, which became China's biggest proving ground for Baidu's taxis due to a relaxed regulatory approach — Wuhan's experiment with driverless taxis could help China lead the world on the emerging technology. It also risks putting thousands of people out of work.Sponsor Posts
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