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Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $76.44B, vs. $73.81B est., net income up 24% to $27.23B, forecasts Q1 above estimates; MSFT jumps 5%+  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — July 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
CNBC:
Microsoft became the second company to surpass $4T in market cap, joining Nvidia, after its stock jumped 5%+ on better-than-expected results  —  The $4 trillion club has a second member.  —  Microsoft shares climbed more than 5% Thursday following a better-than-expected earnings report …
Reuters:
Microsoft reports Q4 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 39% YoY, vs. 34.75% est., and full-year Azure revenue up 34% YoY to $75B, vs. $74.62B est.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13%
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. …
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 …
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.
CNBC:
Meta's Reality Labs Q2: revenue up 5% YoY to $370M, vs. $381M est., and a $4.53B operating loss, vs. $4.99B est.; Reality Labs has lost nearly $70B since 2020  —  Meta's Reality Labs, the unit tasked with building the futuristic metaverse, continues bleeding money.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta expects 2025 capital expenditures to be between $66B and $72B, raising the low end of the company's previous estimate of $64B to $72B
Meta:
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $47.5B, vs. $44.8B est., net income up 36% to $18.3B, family DAP up 6% to 3.48B for June 2025; META jumps 10%+
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
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.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 0.7% YoY to $53.7B, vs. $53.6B est., operating profit down 55% YoY to $3.4B, vs. $3.8B est., with chips operating profit down ~94%  —  Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a second-quarter operating profit of 4.7 trillion Korean won, missing expectations …
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.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Mark Zuckerberg says “We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating” the new risks raised by superintelligence and “careful about what we choose to open source”  —  Meta's CEO says developing superintelligent AI is ‘now in sight.’ But it won't be open source like Llama …
Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Source: OpenAI's monthly revenue grew ~2x in the first seven months of 2025, hitting $12B in annualized revenue; the company's 2025 revenue projection is $12.7B  —  OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annualized revenue, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives.
Financial Times:
How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns about overspending on AI infrastructure, sparked by DeepSeek, fading amid the ongoing building frenzy  —  The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed
Bloomberg:
Sources: Klarna is considering reviving its potential NY IPO as soon as September, after earlier putting plans on hold amid market turbulence due to tariffs  —  Klarna Group Plc is considering reviving its potential New York initial public offering as soon as September, people familiar with the matter said …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $10.37B, vs. $10.35B est., and handset chip revenue up 7% YoY to $6.33B, vs. $6.44B est.  —  Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations and provided a stronger-than-expected guide for the current quarter.
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Stable, which is building a new Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $28M seed co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC  —  - Stable has raised $28 million in a seed round co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC to build a Tether-focused Layer 1 blockchain for payments.
More: FinSMEs and CoinDesk
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 …

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
A federal judge in Virginia has denied the DOJ's request to search Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's devices as part of a national security leak probe

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WBD says Paramount's new $31-a-share offer could lead to a better deal than Netflix's, potentially triggering a four-day period for Netflix to revise its bid

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