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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.
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:
Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M+ MAUs, with daily requests up 50%+ from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B+ MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M+ MAUs in the US and India  —  Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search's AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode.
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $13.62B, vs. $13.11B est., and raises its 2025 capex forecast to $85B, after in February projecting $75B
Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to have tech dominance over China, including proposals to revamp permitting for AI infrastructure projects  —  President Donald Trump signed executive orders to put in motion a new White House plan to boost artificial intelligence development …
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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’
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 …
Reuters:
The new AI Action Plan, which includes some 90 recommendations, aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI software and hardware exports to allies
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.
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:
YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, such as new AI effects and a tool that turns photos into six-second videos
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) …
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.
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 …
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.
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse  —  Broadcom Inc.'s $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc. faces scrutiny from European Union judges, after a cloud computing group contested …
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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7%+ after hours  —  ServiceNow posted strong second-quarter results and lifted its guidance Wednesday.  Shares climbed 7% following the report.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data  —  When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.  —  The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch.
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia:
Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower  —  SHANGHAI — A Chinese mobile game featuring a female hunter character who balances protecting the world from invaders …
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  —  Google's AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel's deal until May 2027; the deal was reached months ago, but the announcement was delayed out of respect for Stephen Colbert

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation

Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: OpenAI privately complained to NBC News that the author of a story about OpenAI pressuring nonprofits was backed by a nonprofit involved in the story

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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted”
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type that matches female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called “Women Drivers”
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Eye Security: hackers have breached ~400 government agencies, corporations, and other groups via a Microsoft SharePoint flaw, up from an estimated 60 on July 22
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan that covers up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and more
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behavior
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after its investigation identifies “opportunities for more innovation”
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