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Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $33B, vs. $32.42B est., and AWS operating income up 9.5% YoY to $11.4B — Amazon said Thursday that revenue in its cloud computing business increased 20% in the third quarter, exceeding analysts' estimates. — Revenue at Amazon Web Services for the third quarter totaled $33 billion.
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Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026 — Amazon shares jumped more than 13% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted third-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations … | Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 13%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2025.
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Apple reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $102.47B, vs. $102.24B est., net income up 86% to $27.5B, and FY 2025 revenue up 6% to $416.16B — Apple reported fiscal-fourth quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analyst expectations, and provided a strong forecast for the company's December quarter.
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Apple Q4: iPhone up 6% YoY to $49.03B, vs. $50.19B est., Mac up 13% to $8.73B, iPad flat at $6.95B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories flat at $9.01B — September quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue and EPS — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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Trump and Xi Jinping agree to a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal was set to expire on Nov. 10 — China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth metals, while the U.S. halved its fentanyl-related tariffs.
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Coinbase reports Q3 revenue up 55% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.8B est., net income up 473% to $433M, and trading volume up 59% to $295B — Shares of Coinbase Global Inc. rose more than 4% after the largest US crypto exchange reported revenue that exceeded Wall Street's third-quarter estimates.| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store — Expect more monetization moves from the company soon. — OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool.
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Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $585M, vs. $546M est., and daily active uniques up 19% to 116M, vs. 114M est.; RDDT jumps 5%+ after hours — Reddit reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday in which the company beat on the top and bottom and provided strong guidance.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more — Creative suite company Canva launched its own design model on Thursday that understands different layers and formats today to power its features.
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Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $562M, vs. $544.6M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $589M, vs. $580M est.; NET jumps 9%+ after hours — Cloudflare (NET) reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped estimates. The internet firm's sales guidance came in above expectations.
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Roku beats expectations with Q3 net income of $24.8M, vs. a net loss of $35.8M a year ago, and revenue of $1.21B, up 14% YoY; total streaming hours rose 12% YoY — Roku, the top independent streaming device and content platform company, delivered third-quarter 2025 financial results … | John Melloy / CNBC: |
Netflix announces a 10-for-1 stock split, after its shares boomed over the last three years to above $1,000 a share — Netflix announced a 10-for-1 stock split, a move that changes nothing fundamentally about the company, but could make the pricey individual shares more accessible to the retail investor.| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Filing: Meta plans to raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30B; the company has said its capex next year would be “notably larger” than in 2025 — Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O) will raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30 billion … | Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta — ZDNET's key takeaways — OpenAI has launched Aardvark, a cybersecurity researcher agent. — Aardvark is powered by GPT-5 and is in private beta.
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Google, Meta, and Microsoft collectively spent nearly $80B on AI infrastructure in Q3, dividing the market on whether they can translate huge capex into income — Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income
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Sources: Nvidia plans to invest $500M to $1B in AI coding startup Poolside, which is in discussions to raise $2B at a $12B valuation — Nvidia Corp. plans to invest as much as $1 billion in the artificial intelligence company Poolside, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Chris Ciaccia / Seeking Alpha: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8%+ after hours — For the period ending Sept. 30, Twilio said it earned an adjusted $1.25 per share as revenue rose — Quick Insights
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation — Bending Spoons, an Italian holding company that buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, on Thursday announced a $710 million equity raise …
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Sources: the US Commerce Department has proposed banning TP-Link's devices, citing its ties to China; more than six departments and agencies backed the proposal — The Commerce Department has proposed barring sales of TP-Link products, citing a national security risk from ties to China, people familiar with the matter said.| Cognition: |
Cognition releases SWE-1.5, a new coding model in Windsurf, saying it partnered with Cerebras to serve SWE-1.5 at speeds up to 13x faster than Claude Sonnet 4.5 — Today we're releasing SWE-1.5, the latest in our family of models optimized for software engineering.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog and Windsurf
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people — American business services giant Conduent has confirmed that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5 million people, according to notifications filed … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021 — Intel Corp. is in preliminary talks to buy artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Core Scientific shareholders vote to reject a $9B takeover bid by CoreWeave that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company — Core Scientific Inc. shareholders rejected a takeover bid by CoreWeave Inc. that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company, ending a contentious monthslong saga.
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