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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $70.1B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 11% YoY, and net income up 18% YoY to $25.8B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Third Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced … | Meta: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, net income up 35% YoY to $16.6B, and family daily active people up 6% YoY to 3.43B on average for March 2025 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
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US v. Google: Sundar Pichai said Google expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by mid-2025 and Tim Cook told him Apple plans to add more AI models this year — Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company plans to roll out its Gemini integration by the end of this year.| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says the DOJ's proposal to share Google search data with rivals amounts to a “de facto” spinoff of Google's search engine and its IP — - Alphabet CEO testifies as part of Justice Department lawsuit — Rivals could reverse-engineer ‘every aspect of our technology’
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| Financial Times: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US to court if necessary to protect European customers' “continuity of access” to its services — Tech group says it would sue to keep European access to crucial cloud services — Microsoft's top legal officer …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Duolingo launches 148 new language courses developed with generative AI, doubling its offerings for non-English speakers within a year, as it aims for 1B+ users — On Wednesday, Duolingo signaled that approach is helping to rapidly expand its language-learning courses …
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 4, benchmarks, AI friends, DeepSeek, China, export controls, open source, monetizing AGI, aligning with Trump, and more — Zuck on: — Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs closed — Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI
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| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight — In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's. — Egg-headed venture capitalist …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more — Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it's not replacing the Wikipedia community …
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| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3 — The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Intel EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell is resigning “in order to pursue another career opportunity” after joining in February 2022 — Christoph Schell, Intel's EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after a two-year stint, according to a filing with the SEC.| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.59B vs. $2.55B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; CFO Steve Priest to step down in May, with Peggy Alford succeeding — E-commerce firm eBay (EBAY.O) said on Wednesday that its Chief Financial Officer Steve Priest will step down in May and will be replaced …
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| Bloomberg Tax: |
Sources: Ripple has proposed a takeover of Circle for $4B to $5B, a bid that was rejected as too low; Ripple remains interested in Circle — Ripple has proposed a takeover of rival stablecoin provider Circle Internet Group Inc. for $4 billion to $5 billion, a bid that was rejected as too low …
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 50% YoY to $927M, vs. $920.1M est., crypto transaction revenue up 100% to $252M, increases share buyback authorization by $500M — The trading platform's results could give an indication for Coinbase's earnings on May 8. — What to know:
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.6B est., handsets revenue up 12%, forecasts Q3 revenue slightly below est.; QCOM drops 5%+ after hours — Revenue in the period ending in June will be $9.9 billion to $10.7 billion, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Visa announces Visa Intelligent Commerce, opening its payment network to developers building AI agents to find and buy products for users — AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding — even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network …
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Meta, Spotify, and Match launch the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience, a lobbying coalition to take on Apple and Google over user age verification — App makers Meta Platforms Inc., Spotify Technology SA and Match Group Inc. are girding for a high-stakes political battle …
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| Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing — Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site — The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site … Sponsor Posts
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