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Apple Inc.:
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $85.8B, net income up 8% to $21.4B, Americas net sales up 6% to $37.7B, and Europe net sales up 8% to $21.9B  —  June quarter records for Revenue and EPS Services revenue reaches new all-time high  —  Apple® today announced financial results …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q3 revenue: iPhone down 1% YoY to $39.30B, Mac up 2% YoY to $7.01B, iPad up 24% YoY to $7.16B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 2% YoY to $8.10B
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024  —  Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.9B estimated, Data Center and AI down 3% YoY to $3B, and gives light Q3 guidance; INTC drops 25%+  —  Intel shares slid as much as 20% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker said it would lay off over 15% of its employees …
Josh Sisco / Politico:
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai on antitrust grounds  —  The investigation adds to the global pressure by regulators to prevent control of artificial intelligence by just a handful of the world's largest technology companies.
Amazon.com, Inc.:
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $148B, a $13.5B net income, vs. $6.7B YoY, $14.7B operating income, vs. $7.7B YoY, subscription sales up 10% to $10.9B  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2024.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $26.28B, vs. $26.02B est., and AWS operating income of $9.33B, vs. $8.51B est., up from $5.37B in Q2 2023
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds  —  Not all that long ago, it used to be hard, really hard to generate 3D images.  It was a process that involved complex wireframes, complicated software and beefy hardware.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Infoblox and Eclypsium: since 2018, Russian hackers hijacked 35K+ registered domains using Sitting Ducks attacks that involve exploiting DNS configuration flaws  —  Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming …
Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Court filings: AI startups Suno and Udio respond to copyright lawsuits from major music labels, saying their use of proprietary music to train AI is fair use  —  In their first responses to the sweeping copyright lawsuits that could define AI music, lawyers for Suno and Udio don't exactly hold back.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 46.5% YoY to ~$1.65B, vs. ~$1.92B exp., net profit down 55.3% YoY to ~$536M, and Switch sales down 46% YoY to 2.1M units  —  Nintendo on Friday reported revenue and profit that plunged in the company's fiscal first quarter, as sales of the ageing Switch console decline.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Intel extends the warranty for its boxed Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors by an additional two years, due to customers experiencing instability issues  —  Trying to build goodwill.  —  Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
In its annual report, Microsoft adds OpenAI as a competitor in AI offerings and search and news advertising; OpenAI unveiled its prototype SearchGPT last week  —  Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has officially become more complicated.  —  On Tuesday, Microsoft added …
Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg:
A special committee of 23andMe's board says it's not “prepared to move forward” with CEO Anne Wojcicki's $0.40 per share offer to take the company private  —  A special committee of 23andMe's board said it's not “prepared to move forward” with Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki's offer …
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The Canadian Press:
Study: a year after Meta blocked news content in Canada due to the Online News Act, Canadians' total engagement with news content on social media is down 43%  —  Canadian news struggling after Meta ban: study  —  MONTREAL - A new study is painting a grim portrait of how local Canadian news outlets …
Tuvan Gumrukcu / Reuters:
Turkey blocks Instagram without stating a reason or the duration; a Turkish official claimed Instagram blocked condolence posts on Ismail Haniyeh's killing  —  Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday, without stating a reason …
Bill Peters / MarketWatch:
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 105% YoY to $1.45B, vs. $1.39B est., a $36.2M net income, and forecasts subscription and services Q3 revenue below expectations  —  Stock is still up this year, as investors digest the prospect of easing regulations  —  Coinbase Global Inc. on Thursday reported …

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Jeff Stein / NOTUS:
Former hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says he used AI to write a WSJ op-ed, likening it to using a calculator for math problems

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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