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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023 — Figma's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $94B, its largest quarterly growth since December 2021, net income up 9% to $23.4B, and China net sales up 4% to $15.4B — Apple Apple reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue.
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and MacRumors Forums
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, operating income up 31% YoY to $19.2B, and net income up 35% YoY to $18.2B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2025. - Net sales increased 13% to $167.7 billion in the second quarter …
More: GeekWire, Financial Times, Chain Store Age, Cord Cutters News, and Business Wire
| Bloomberg: |
Google loses its appeal of a judge's order in October 2024 requiring it to overhaul its Google Play store policies in an antitrust case filed by Epic Games — Alphabet Inc.'s Google lost its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of the technology giant's app store policies …
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X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @artemr, @sherman1890, @balancecrafting, @sladebond, @sladebond, @sherman1890, and @sherman1890. Forums: r/Android
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.07B est., a net profit of $10.5M, and Platform segment sales up 18% to $976M — Roku exceeded expectations for the second quarter of 2025, with the streaming platform company turning in better-than-expected 15% top-line growth — and a quarterly profit.| Financial Times: |
The UK's CMA finds that Microsoft's software licensing terms harm competition in the cloud market, may open a probe into Microsoft and Amazon in 2026 — Watchdog finds UK cloud market ‘not working well’ and recommends conduct requirements for Big Tech — Microsoft's software licensing terms …
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| Reuters: |
The Cyberspace Administration of China questioned Nvidia over H20 chip security concerns after US lawmakers urged adding tracking features to exported AI chips — China's cyberspace regulator said it has asked U.S. semiconductor maker Nvidia (NVDA.O) to explain whether its H20 artificial intelligence chips … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is using Russian ISPs to install spyware disguised as Kaspersky on PCs of victims in embassies in Moscow — The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network infrastructure to meddle …
More: The Record, Microsoft Security Blog, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, The Register, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @jgreig, @agreenberg, and @patrickhowelloneill.com
Mastodon: @therecord_media … and @nemo@mas.to
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO ending the de minimis exemption for packages worth $800 or less from all countries, after shuttering the loophole for goods from China in May — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order ending the de minimis trade loophole for low-value packages shipped from all countries.
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Forums: r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/neoliberal, r/DIYHEAVEN, r/inflation, r/Tariffs, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/politics, r/StockMarket, and Slashdot
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether reports a record $4.9B net profit in Q2, says it held nearly $9B in BTC at the end of Q2, and remains “among the largest holders of US government debt” — - Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, said it registered a net profit of $4.9 billion, setting a new quarterly record.| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to “modernize” securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday debuted “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize securities rules and regulations to allow for crypto-based trading.
More: US Securities …, Blockworks, Ledger Insights, CoinDesk, Reuters, The Block, crypto.news, Benzinga, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, and Watcher Guru. Forums: r/Hedera
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches Stargate Norway, the first Stargate-branded initiative in Europe, to build a 230MW data center owned by a joint venture between Nscale and Aker — OpenAI has agreed to be an anchor customer for a new data center in Norway, the first European site for the artificial intelligence company's Stargate infrastructure effort.
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LinkedIn: Eva Smorodina, Mathias Karlsson, Rohan Kumar Yadav, PhD, Nicolai Skabo, Metin Parlak, and Sandro Gianella
Forums: Hacker News, r/Norway, r/norge, and r/singularity
| Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that unifies petabytes of Earth observation data and helps scientists create detailed maps on demand — New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring
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LinkedIn: Tomislav Hengl and Elizabeth Ramirez
Forums: r/singularity, r/MachineLearning, and Slashdot
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stack Overflow survey: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% in 2024, and 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43% in 2024 — More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. — While enterprise AI adoption accelerates …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Slashdot
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25+ companies as competitors — Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Anaconda, which provides AI development tools for developers and data scientists, raised $150M+ led by Insight Partners, source says at a $1.5B valuation — Artificial intelligence startup Anaconda Inc. has raised a new funding round that values the company at $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
More: Anaconda, Austin Business Journal, The New Stack, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Barry Russell, Beth McClelland, Brett Rizzo, George Mathew, and Alexander Robb
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Profiles of OpenAI's heads of research Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, where they discuss the path toward more capable reasoning models and superalignment — For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
iPhone exports to the US from India are currently exempt from Trump's latest 25% tariffs on India; India now accounts for 20%+ of global iPhone production — Apple Inc.'s iPhone exports to the US from India will remain untouched by President Donald Trump's latest 25% tariffs on the South Asian nation, for now.
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| Bloomberg: |
The Trump administration says Apple, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, and 60+ companies have pledged to make data sharing seamless across health care systems — Leading US technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Anthropic, Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and OpenAI Inc. …
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LinkedIn: Amy Paris and Frank Harvey
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| Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online: |
Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 78% YoY to $500M, vs. $426M est., daily active uniques up 21% to 110.4M, Q3 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 16%+ after hours — earnings greatly beat expectations and the company provided better-than-expected revenue estimates for its third quarter on Thursday.| Semafor: |
Sources: Trump administration is reconsidering plans to replace the Biden-era AI export rules as part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China — The Trump administration is easing off its tough-on-China approach to technology export controls as it searches for leverage … | Chris Eudaily / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$1B, Bookings up 51% YoY to ~$1.4B, above $1.24B est., and DAUs up 41% YoY to 111.8M, above 106M est.; RBLX jumps 15%+ — Roblox stock soared 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter revenue that beat expectations amid strong user growth.
More: Reuters, Roblox, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, and Investor's Business Daily
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Uber Eats adds AI tools to generate menu item descriptions, enhance food images, and more; it will pay customers in some countries for uploading food photos — Some customers can also get paid for uploading pictures of their meals. … The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coinbase says its new “everything exchange” will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months — Coinbase is planning to expand its core trading app beyond crypto, the company said Thursday.| Financial Times: |
How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns about overspending on AI infrastructure, sparked by DeepSeek, fading amid the ongoing building frenzy — The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Stable, which is building a new Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $28M seed co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC — - Stable has raised $28 million in a seed round co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC to build a Tether-focused Layer 1 blockchain for payments.
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