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Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $76.44B, vs. $73.81B est., net income up 24% to $27.23B, forecasts Q1 above estimates; MSFT jumps 8%+ after hours  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — July 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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.  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) forecast on Wednesday a record $30 billion in capital spending for the current fiscal first quarter …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13%  —  Azure revenues grew 39 percent year-over-year, as Microsoft continues to grow its cloud business.
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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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:
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.
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.
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 4%+ 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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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) …

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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
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New York Times:
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Financial Times:
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