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August 1, 2025, 8:55 AM

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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% YoY to $15.37B  —  Apple Apple reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue.
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple incurred ~$800M in Trump's tariff 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 …
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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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.
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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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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 …
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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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which can consider multiple ideas simultaneously, to $250-per-month Ultra subscribers  —  Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Nintendo Q1: revenue up 132% YoY to ~$3.8B, operating profit up 4.4% to ~$378M; it sold 5.82M Switch 2 units in the first month, more than double the original  —  Nintendo more than doubled revenue in its fiscal first quarter, as the company logged bumper sales of its Switch 2 console in the first month of release.
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 …
New York Times:
Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B led by Dragoneer at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule and part of a $40B goal for 2025; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT  —  The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.
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.
Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired:
Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content  —  As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

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