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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.
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 …
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
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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 …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since its 2007 launch; it reached 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021
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, 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.
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.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 17.5% YoY to $30.9B, vs. $30.8B est., and AWS operating income up 8.8% YoY to $10.2B
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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