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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sundar Pichai says “more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers”  —  Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it's using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too.  “More than a quarter of all new code …
Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12%, net income up 34%, and traffic acquisition costs up 9%; GOOG jumps 5%+ pre-market  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 29, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.4B, vs. $10.88B est., led by accelerated growth in AI Infrastructure, Generative AI Solutions, and core GCP products
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Q3 ad revenue grew 12.2% YoY to $8.92B, vs. $8.89B est.; total ads and subscription revenues passed $50B over the past four quarters for the first time
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple updates the Mac mini with a smaller design, five USB-C ports, and up to 64GB of RAM, shipping from November 8 for $599+ with M4 and $1,399+ with M4 Pro  —  As part of the company's week of Mac-focused announcements, Apple has just introduced a smaller, yet even more powerful Mac Mini.
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts the M4 Pro: Thunderbolt 5, up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU with up to 2x an M4 GPU's power, a 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 64GB of RAM
Tom Warren / The Verge:
GitHub says Copilot will support Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models, unveils an AI tool to build micro web apps called Spark, Copilot for Xcode, and more  —  GitHub is going multi-model for its Copilot code completion and programming tool.  Developers will soon be able to choose models from Anthropic …
The GitHub Blog:
Contributions to generative AI projects on GitHub grew 59% YoY between October 2023 and September 2024 and Python topped JavaScript as the most popular language  —  In this year's Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris that push policies Harris doesn't support, without disclaimers, and ups its social ad spend  —  An Elon Musk-funded super PAC has expanded an advertising campaign in which it is impersonating Democrats and targeting registered Republicans …
Tess Owen / Wired:
Data: anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook in the US, with the platform even auto-generating some group pages, despite the issue being flagged  —  Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: xAI is in talks with investors to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would value it at around $40B; xAI was valued at $24B in May  —  New fundraising effort would substantially increase startup's valuation from spring  —  Elon Musk's xAI is in talks with investors …
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $6.82B vs. $6.71B est., Data Center revenue up 122% to $3.5B, and Q4 revenue forecast below est.; AMD drops 7%+ pre-market  —  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue just shy of estimates as supply chain constraints hamper …
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI has been working for months with Broadcom on its first in-house AI chip, for inference, built by TSMC, and has dropped its foundry plans for now  —  OpenAI is working with Broadcom (AVGO.O) and TSMC (2330.TW) to build its first in-house chip designed to support …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $348.4M, vs. $312.8M est., DAUs up 47% YoY to 97.2M, vs. 96.5M est., ARPU of $3.58, vs. $3.24 est.; RDDT jumps 24%+  —  Reddit shares jumped 22% in extended trading Tuesday, topping $100 for the first time, after the social media company reported third-quarter results …
Reuters:
Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount  —  Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Intel (INTC.O) CEO three years ago with hopes of reviving the American industrial icon.

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