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Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — Nvidia (NVDA) reported its Q3 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom lines …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates — - President-elect's team is vetting candidates for the job — Crypto industry executives spoke with Trump this week| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York — - Pact doesn't include $1.6 billion loan from proposed agreement — Biden administration has been firming up Chips Act awards
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed — - Gary Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud-related charges following the collapse of FTX a month earlier.
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours — Snowflake said it has inked a multi-year deal to bring Anthropic's Claude models to Snowflake Cortex AI.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds — As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta's own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling …
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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto — - $11 million stolen in years-long campaign targeting US firms — Loosely-knit group consists of young men in US and UK
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| Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.12B est., and projects FY 2025 sales in line with estimates; PANW drops 5%+ after hours — Merely in-line outlook for fiscal 2025 weighs on the stock, down 5% after hours — Referenced Symbols| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri — There's a pretty cool update for Messenger out today. Meta has introduced phone and video calling voicemail, similar to FaceTime.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34% — Business spending on generative AI surged 500% this year, from $2.3 billion in 2023 to $13.8 billion, according to data released by Menlo Ventures on Wednesday.| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called “subnets” on the Bittensor blockchain network — Barry Silbert isn't done yet. The billionaire entrepreneur first made his mark in finance when, at age 17 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own — Microsoft is starting to open up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries today.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it — A Chinese lab has unveiled what appears to be one of the first “reasoning” AI models to rival OpenAI's o1.
More: VentureBeat, Maginative, and MarkTechPost
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 — Amazon's first wall-mounted smart display just got a big upgrade. Today, the company announced the launch of the Echo Show 21 …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta — H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed round of $220 million … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: xAI has told investors it raised $5B in a funding round valuing it at $50B and that its revenue has reached $100M on an annualized basis — The artificial intelligence startup has more than doubled its valuation from the spring — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup … | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M — - PSG Equity, Golub, others inject $800 million in equity, debt — Vista acquired LogicMonitor for $415 million in mid-2018
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025 — - “We're looking at a concentration around a handful of players that lack objectivity,” Green said.
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GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021 — What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They're already online. — 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.| Bloomberg: |
SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push — - SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley
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