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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 …
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 …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since the device's 2007 launch; it announced 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 Pay, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and iCloud, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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
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, vs. $10.9B est.
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:
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.6B est., and retail trading volume up 16% YoY to $43B, vs. $48.05B est.; COIN drops 10%+
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 its AI tool Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users  —  CEO Steve Huffman says the company is focused on making the platform a ‘go-to search engine.’
Bloomberg:
China accuses the US of exploiting an old Microsoft Exchange flaw to control a key Chinese defense company's servers for nearly a year and steal military data  —  China accused the US of exploiting a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s email servers to steal military data and launch cyberattacks on its defense sector.
More: Tech in Asia
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

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