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July 30, 2025, 4:55 PM

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Mark Zuckerberg / Meta:
Zuckerberg says superintelligence is in sight, and when personal superintelligence arrives, context-aware devices like glasses will become our primary computers  —  Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves.  The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Q4: revenue up 18% YoY to $76.4B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud revenue up 16%, net income up 24% to $27.2B; MSFT jumps 6%+ after hours  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — July 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Amazon-backed AI streaming service Showrunner debuts on Thursday, charging users $10 to $40 per month to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP  —  - Fable Studio has gotten funding from Amazon for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner.  — It shared a deck that explains …
Bloomberg:
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire CyberArk Software in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at ~$25B, implying a 26% stock premium  —  Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion.
Alice Hancock / Financial Times:
Google says it will sign the EU's AI Code of Practice, in a boost to the EU's efforts to regulate AI in the face of Meta's refusal to sign and heavy US pressure  —  Move set to boost efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in face of opposition from Meta and pressure from US
Elvira Pollina / Reuters:
Italy opens an investigation into Meta, saying it may have violated EU competition rules by integrating its Meta AI assistant into WhatsApp without user consent  —  Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O) …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Ramp raised a $500M Series E-2 led by Iconiq Growth at a $22.5B valuation, and says it has 40K+ businesses as clients, with $700M in annualized revenue in March  —  Startup raises $500 million to further develop AI-based agents, CEO says  —  Ramp, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
Meta:
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $47.5B, vs. $44.8B est., net income up 36% to $18.3B, family DAP up 6% to 3.48B for June 2025; META jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Coinbase Global Inc. signed an agreement to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon's multiyear deal to use NYT content for its platforms and AI models is $20M to $25M per year, which is nearly 1% of the NYT's total 2024 revenue  —  The multiyear deal lets Amazon use content from the Times's news and cooking sections and the Athletic
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products  —  A group charged by President Donald Trump with recommending policies on crypto markets called on federal regulators to use …
Richard Speed / The Register:
Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched in 2020, on October 28 to focus on its core product, and recommends 1Password as a replacement  —  Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Substack apologizes after sending a push notification encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”  —  + Juggalos vs AI, Jet 2 deportations, Jasmine Crockett's lock screen, Sloppers, mankeeping, Crybabies, classroom attack drones …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Zixu Wang / New York Times:
How Meituan used Hong Kong as a trial market for global food delivery expansion, with its Keeta service driving out Deliveroo before moving to Saudi Arabia  —  Meituan, the Chinese food delivery giant, tested its global expansion in Hong Kong, where its Keeta service displaced a rival before moving to other markets.
More: WebProNews
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 45% YoY to $989M vs. $908M est., net income up 105% YoY to $386M, funded customers grew by 2.3M to 26.5M  —  Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday.  —  Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG:
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets “a dangerous precedent” and “threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart”  —  The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.”

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