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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/BetterOffline, r/technology, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/artificial, and Slashdot
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Mark Zuckerberg says “We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating” the new risks raised by superintelligence and “careful about what we choose to open source”  —  Meta's CEO says developing superintelligent AI is ‘now in sight.’ But it won't be open source like Llama …
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:
Microsoft reports Q4 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 39% YoY, vs. 34.75% est., and full-year Azure revenue up 34% YoY to $75B, vs. $74.62B est.
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.
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.
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 …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google plans to start rolling out ML-powered age estimation in the US “over the next few weeks” to detect if users are under 18 and enable existing protections  —  In the US, Google is beginning to use an age estimation model to detect whether Account users are under or over 18.
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) …
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 …
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.
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Oxide Computer, which provides on-premises cloud computers to businesses, raised a $100M Series B led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund  —  Cloud server builder Oxide Computer Company on Wednesday said it has raised $100 million in financing to help the company expand …
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 …
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
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $10.37B, vs. $10.35B est., and handset chip revenue up 7% YoY to $6.33B, vs. $6.44B est.; QCOM drops 5%+ after hours  —  Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations and provided a stronger-than-expected guide for the current quarter.
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”  —  The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.”
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US  —  TikTok announced on Wednesday that it's releasing a slew of new features, including enhanced parental controls, additional tools for creators, and a new interactive wellbeing feature.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube says videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds will now be eligible for full monetization, reversing the “limited ad revenue” restriction  —  Videos that use the F-word in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full ad revenue.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: data-labeling startup Surge AI is in talks with a16z, Warburg Pincus, and others to raise $1B in its first funding round at a valuation of at least $25B  —  Surge AI, a leading data-labeling startup, is in talks to raise about $1 billion in its first round of funding at a valuation …

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