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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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| 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 …
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| 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. — Microsoft (MSFT.O) surpassed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday as strong demand from businesses … | 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 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 … | Natalie Weger / Wall Street Journal: |
eBay reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.73B, vs. $2.64B est., gross merchandise volume up 6% to $19.5B, net income up 64% to $368M; EBAY jumps 10%+ after hours — Adjusted earnings per share of $1.37 were ahead of analysts' estimates of $1.30 — EBay logged higher profit and revenue …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 45% YoY to $989M, vs. $908M est., net income up 105% YoY to $386M, and funded customers up 10% YoY to 26.5M, vs. 26.1M est. — Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday. — Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Arm reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.05B, royalty revenue up 25% YoY to $585M, vs. $595M est., and forecasts Q2 profit below est.; ARM drops 8%+ after hours — Arm Holdings Plc, which provides the most widely used technology in computing chips, gave a lower-than-expected profit forecast … | 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
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Mark Troianovski and Reilly Combs
| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News and Lobsters
| 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
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sources: the US intelligence community persuaded the DOJ that allowing the HPE-Juniper merger was essential to US national security and competing with Huawei — - The official said blocking the deal would have “hindered American companies and empowered” Chinese competitors.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut considers acquiring a US bank to get an American banking license and start lending in the US, a faster route than applying for its own permit — Acquisition would be faster route for fintech to start lending in US than applying for permit of its own
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| 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.
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| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based Ambiq Micro closed up ~61% in its NYSE debut, after raising $96M in an upsized IPO, giving the maker of ultra-low power chips a $680M market value — Ambiq Micro Inc. shares rose 61% in their first trading day, after the maker of ultra-low power semiconductors …
More: SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Cautious Optimism, and Edge Industry Review
| 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.”
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, and Gizmodo
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B — Figma, the developer of design software that was supposed to get acquired by Adobe, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $33 per share, above its expected range.Sponsor Posts
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