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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.| Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: |
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago — Key Points: — YouTube ad revenue rose to $9.8 billion in Q2 2025, up 13% compared to Q2 2024. — Alphabet's total revenue climbed 14% to $96.4 billion.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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’
More: TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, BBC, New York Times, New York Times, Axios, Engadget, Politico, Decrypt, Reason, Nextgov/FCW, Cryptopolitan, New York Post, FedScoop, Time, Nextgov/FCW, The Verge, and Fox News
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More: Wired, Variety, TVNewsCheck, The A.V. Club, Chat GPT Is Eating the World, Politico, and The Wrap
Bluesky: @kaplanikids, @nathangrayson, @ericrubenlaw, and @chup.blakereid.org. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @brianlfrye, @brendengallager, @rabois, @eastdakota, @benbrodydc, and @ikrietzberg
| Bloomberg: |
More: The White House, The White House, The White House, Axios, South China Morning Post, AI.Gov, PCMag, The Verge, The Register, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, NPR, Newser, Neowin, Associated Press, Washington Post, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, Anthropic, Financial Times, The White House, The White House, RCR Wireless News, Business Today, Information Age, Benzinga, The Indian Express, The Hill, The Economic Times, CIO Dive, Fox News, Biometric Update, Fierce Network, Android Central, Mashable, implicator.ai, Capital Brief, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, Inc, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, UPI, DefenseScoop, Bloomberg Law, Wired, and Financial Times
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LinkedIn: Andy Hickl, Krystal Kauffman, Avani D., and Christopher A. Suarez
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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.
More: itch.io, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, GamesRadar, VideoGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TheGamer, Gameranx, 80 Level, and PC Games Insider
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X: @basterbinez, @jadeofcelestial, @kuma_kurea, @firesisterbee, @dracthegoblin, @invaderalex, @dussopsfables, @fuguemichie, @the_doddler, @sorcerobe, @ediskrad327, @kayinnasaki, @_ceee_, and @itchio
Forums: r/gamedev, r/pcmasterrace, r/Steam, r/pcgaming, and r/Games
| 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: |
More: YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, Business Standard, The Week, Social Media Today, How-To Geek, Android Central, PhoneArena, Engadget, and 9to5Google
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 … | 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 …
More: The Guardian, The Decoder, Business Standard, 9to5Google, The Indian Express, Mumbrella, and Pew Research Center
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/ukpolitics and r/technology
| 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.
More: Thurrott, Game File, KitGuru, TheGamer, Nintendo Life, Dexerto, Video Games Chronicle, TweakTown, Metro.co.uk, VG Charts, VG Charts, Sherwood News, Wccftech, GamesRadar, Windows Central, GamesRadar, Eurogamer.net, Polygon, Bloomberg, Screen Rant, and Game Rant
Forums: r/gaming, r/technology, r/hardware, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/gadgets, and r/Superstonk
| 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.| 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 …
More: Gizmodo, New Republic, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and Tech Times
Bluesky: @hypervisible and @altfda.altgov.info
| 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 …
More: Goldman Sachs, Reuters, The Daily Upside, Ledger Insights, Blockhead, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph
X: @bnyglobal, @p3b7_, @zerohedge, and @rmconservative
| 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 … | Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$16.2B, vs. ~$14.9B est., operating profit up 68% to ~$6.7B, vs. ~$6.5B est., expects sustained HBM demand in 2025 — South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter on sustained demand … | 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
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that it approving Broadcom's $61B VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse — Musk Puts Potential xAI Investment Back on Tesla Shareholders — Get the Tech In Depth newsletter.
More: The Register, ITPro, Euractiv, CISPE, Bloomberg Law, Tech in Asia, and The Stack
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