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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $94.04B, vs. $89.53B est., its largest quarterly growth since December 2021, and China net sales up 4% to $15.37B — Apple Apple reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple incurred ~$800M in tariff-related costs in Q3, $100M less than expected, and expects a jump to $1.1B in Q4 if current rates and policies remain in place — Trump's tariffs are increasingly costing Apple more per quarter — Apple's bill for Trump's tariffs in the third quarter …
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| Apple: |
Apple Q3: iPhone up 13% YoY to $44.58B, vs. $40.22B est., Mac up 15% to $8.05B, iPad down 8% to $6.58B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 9% to $7.4B — June quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue and EPS — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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Tim Cook says Apple is “significantly growing” its investment in AI and reassigning staff to work on AI features, while remaining “very open to M&A” — Apple's AI strategy and investment was on the mind of analysts on an earnings call after the company reported …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, vs. $162.09B est., forecasts Q3 operating income of $15.5B-$20.5B, vs. $19.48B est.; AMZN drops 6%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $15.7B, vs. $14.9B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $12.2B — Amazon shares slid more than 3% in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results that exceeded expectations, but it gave light operating income guidance for the current period.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.6B est., and retail trading volume up 16% to $43B, vs. $48.05B est.; COIN drops 9%+ after hours — Coinbase shares fell Thursday after gains in the cryptocurrency exchange's subscription revenue failed to offset weaker trading volumes.| 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.| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
The US SEC debuts Project Crypto, an initiative to “modernize” securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading, amid investor interest in tokenization — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday debuted “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize securities rules …
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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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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment” — Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google loses its appeal of a US 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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| 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.| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic is nearing $5B in annualized revenue, up from $4B reported on July 1, as it nears a deal to raise $5B led by Iconiq at a $170B valuation — This year's torrid deal-making pace is definitely not taking a pause for summer. On Wednesday, I reported that OpenAI is months ahead …
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| 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 …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research — Over the summer, Matt Deitke got a phone call from Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive. — Mr. Zuckerberg wanted Mr. Deitke …
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| Christy Santhosh / Reuters: |
Neuralink plans a UK clinical trial to test how its chips let patients with severe paralysis control devices with thoughts, marking its entry into the country — Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips … | Michael Novinson / BankInfoSecurity.com: |
Wallarm, which builds a platform for API and AI security, raised a $55M Series C led by Toba Capital after an $8M Series A in 2018, taking total raised to ~$66M — Series C Funding Supports Evolution to Protecting API-Powered Business Revenue — A San Francisco-based startup raised $55 million …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity defense, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel — Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised $30 million in Series …
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
AI infrastructure company fal, which runs audio, video, and image models on behalf of enterprises, raised a $125M Series C led by Meritech at a $1.5B valuation — Artificial intelligence infrastructure company fal raised a $125 million Series C round valuing the company at $1.5 billion, the company said Thursday.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others — Observe, an observability platform, was founded in 2017 in response to the changing nature of software observability.| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Cline, which offers an open-source AI coding tool with transparent billing, raised a $27M Series A led by Emergence at a $110M valuation — Software developers are often frustrated by obscure pricing plans for the AI coding tools they use. With $27 million in new funding, Cline is developing tools to help them manage their AI bills.| 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 17%+ after hours — earnings greatly beat expectations and the company provided better-than-expected revenue estimates for its third quarter on Thursday.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $512.3M, vs. $501.21M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue of $543.5M to $544.5M, vs. $538.6M est. — Shares in Cloudflare Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the content delivery network company impressed investors with earnings …
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