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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.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says Apple is “significantly growing” its AI investment, reallocating staff to work on AI features, and “very open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap” — Apple's AI strategy and investment was on the mind of analysts on an earnings call …
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| 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: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| 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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| 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.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which considers multiple ideas simultaneously, to its $250/month Ultra subscription — Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model …
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| 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.
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, vs. $162.09B est., and forecasts Q3 operating income from $15.5B to $20.5B, vs. $19.48B est.; AMZN drops 6%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| 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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| 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: |
| James Hunt / The Block: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority plans to allow retail investors to access crypto exchange-traded notes, dubbed cETNs, on FCA-approved, UK-based exchanges — - The UK financial regulator is set to open up access to crypto exchange-traded notes for retail investors on FCA-approved, UK-based exchanges.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a “comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs” — The award covering the next decade is one of the largest DoD contracts ever, cementing the tech firm's role in warfighting for years to come.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit wants to become “a go-to search engine” for users; its core search has 70M+ weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users — CEO Steve Huffman says the company is focused on making the platform a ‘go-to search engine.’
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| Reuters: |
Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at up to $30B, up from $9.1B in December 2023 — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) growth-stage venture arm CapitalG and Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to invest in artificial intelligence …
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| 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 up to $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 … | Bloomberg: |
Meituan, Alibaba, and JD.com vow to curb “disorderly competition” and limit their price wars in China's food delivery space after warnings from regulators — Meituan, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and JD.com Inc. vowed Friday to curb “disorderly competition” and cease … | Callan Quinn / Decrypt: |
Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, requiring issuers to get approval from the Monetary Authority, comply with AML protocols, and more — Hong Kong's new stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, tightening rules as the city vies for a global crypto edge. — In brief| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after launching the OS on low-cost laptops designed to compete with Google Chromebooks — Microsoft isn't chasing after Chromebooks anymore, as demand tails off. … Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year … Sponsor Posts
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