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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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
CNBC:
Microsoft became the second company to surpass $4T in market cap, joining Nvidia, after its stock jumped 5%+ on better-than-expected results
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. …
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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Bloomberg:
Sources: Salesforce and ServiceNow are in talks to invest ~$750M each in Genesys, which uses AI to automate customer service functions, valuing Genesys at ~$15B  —  Salesforce Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. are each in advanced talks to invest about $750 million apiece in Genesys Cloud Services Inc. …

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
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