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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, vs. $94B est., net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12% — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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| Financial Times: |
The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for “ideological bias” and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer “objective truth” — Federal government will only do business with tech companies whose models offer ‘objective truth’
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Bluesky: @joshsternberg.com, @markriedl, @mmitchell, and @markriedl
X: @luke_metro, @erratarob, @edludlow, @autismcapital, @davidsacks, @luke_metro, and @realchrisrufo. Forums: r/technology
| Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg: |
At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was “very hard” and “I learned the facts here” — President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition … | Deadline: |
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules — Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
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Bluesky: @kaplanikids, @nathangrayson, @ericrubenlaw, and @chup.blakereid.org. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @brianlfrye, @brendengallager, @rabois, @eastdakota, @benbrodydc, and @ikrietzberg
| Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @rachelcoldicutt, @davelevitan, @reckless, @ericjgeller.com, @marypcbuk, @natashabernal, @kevincollier, @davidgreene, @kimnoreen, and @colindickey.com
Threads: @natolambert and @benedictevans
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam — The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
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Bluesky: @fasterthanli.me, @highimpactsex, @swordandquill.itch.io, @tomwarren.co.uk, and @wario64
X: @basterbinez, @invaderalex, @the_doddler, @sorcerobe, @dussopsfables, @ediskrad327, @fuguemichie, @jadeofcelestial, @dracthegoblin, @kayinnasaki, @_ceee_, @itchio, @firesisterbee, and @kuma_kurea
Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/Steam, and r/gamedev
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers — The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone — But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? … The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos — Photo-to-video lets you take an existing still image in your library and transform it into a “dynamic” six-second clip … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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X: @sundarpichai and @youtube
LinkedIn: Vadim Lavrusik, Colin Smith, and Guohui
| Financial Times: |
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May — Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Microsoft says the “Storm-2603” group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+ — A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment … | Sarah Owermohle / CNN: |
Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work — White Oak, Md. CNN — To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived …
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Bluesky: @hypervisible and @altfda.altgov.info
| IGN: |
Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013 — 1.6 million units were sold during its launch month in the U.S., and 82% of buyers also got Mario Kart World.
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Forums: r/gaming, r/technology, r/hardware, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/gadgets, and r/Superstonk
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount — Google announced on Thursday that it's launching a new AI feature that lets users virtually try on clothes.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Authority, and Search Engine Journal
| Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret, attribute, and restore text fragments — Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators — Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …
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Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @emanuelmaiberg, @jasonkoebler, @techoversight, @scripting.com, @josephcox, @rusty.todayintabs.com, @pressgazette.co.uk, @carnage4life, and @tongli
Mastodon: @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org and @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/technology and r/ukpolitics
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform — Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon are set to announce that they've created the ability for institutional investors …
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X: @bnyglobal, @zerohedge, @p3b7_, and @rmconservative
| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration — In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia
Bluesky: @cathfletcher
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% YoY to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5%+ — International Business Machines Corp. reported weaker-than-expected sales in its closely watched software segment, disappointing investors … | Bloomberg: |
AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost “more than 5% but less than 20%” above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said that the chips her company gets …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers — A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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Zoho:
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IDrive:
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WebBrain:
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