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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, below $41.34B est., and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks — Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, and said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50% …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access — Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and plans to reveal more details at a later date — Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM — Google Cloud is developing its own blockchain … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more — An animated version of the AI assistant can provide movie recommendations or summarize the latest episode of your favorite show.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to 80 countries and 200+ US companies — The advisory shows global resolve against a hacking campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping.
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| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering — Google's post-purchase support for Pixel has never been fantastic — a quick glance at r/GooglePixel will make that abundantly clear …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations — OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world's leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing …
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| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
Google Pixel 10 Pro review: the best AI phone on the market with handy features like Magic Cue, a great display, and Qi2 charging, but no design improvements — 🏆 Rating: 4.5/5 — 🥇 Editor's Choice — ✅ Pros — 📱 The displays are brighter and better than ever
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| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation — Apple has warned that “EU-style rules” proposed by the UK competition watchdog “are bad for users and bad for developers”.
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| 404 Media: |
4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them — The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.09B, above $1.04B est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 12%+ — Snowflake Inc. shares jumped in extended trading after giving a strong outlook that overcame anxiety that software vendors will be hurt …
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| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state …
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum — A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT's NANDA initiative.| Everything Typepad: |
Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then — We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You?
X: @typepad. Bluesky: @andy.baio.net and @ernie.tedium.co. Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens of alternative broadband network providers that have tried to challenge BT and O2's dominance — NatWest and Lloyds among lenders exposed as ‘altnets’ buckle under strain of rising costs and fierce fibre competition
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| Reuters: |
Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit — Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global reported on Thursday a second-quarter net loss of 2.5 billion yuan ($350 million) … | Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, above $1.15B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; CRWD drops 4%+ — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. dropped after reporting strong results but narrowly missing analysts' estimates for sales in the current quarter …
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| @mingchikuo: |
Analysis: Meta's Hypernova AR glasses will enter mass production in Q3 2025 to beat Apple to market, but have a modest sales target of 150K-200K over two years — Here are the key points regarding Meta's AI glasses, Hypernova: 1. This device is expected to enter mass production in 3Q25 with a two-year product life cycle.
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