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October 31, 2025, 1:45 PM

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
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.
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 10%+  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2025.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
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 …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs …
Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO  —  Gloo Holdings, a religious-oriented technology firm, is seeking a valuation of up to $873.4 million in its U.S. initial public offering …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an “AI Megafactory” and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process  —  Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. said today it's partnering with Nvidia Corp. to build an “AI Megafactory” …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
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Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
In their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B  —  Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon will increase spending in 2026; ‘Are we in a bubble?’  —  Silicon Valley's biggest companies …
Claudie Moreau / Euractiv:
Denmark says it will withdraw the EU “Chat Control” proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning  —  The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
Reuters:
Letter: Nexperia suspends supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, citing a failure to “comply with the agreed contractual payment terms”  —  Dutch chipmaker Nexperia has suspended supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, a letter addressed to its customers reviewed …
Elaine Pofeldt / Forbes:
Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev  —  How to break $1M in revenue in a business staffed only by the owners  —  Lettuce Financial, a San Francisco-based fintech platform for solopreneurs …
Reuters:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he still hopes to sell the company's Blackwell chips to China “someday”, but points out the decision is up to President Trump  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Friday he hoped the company's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips can be sold in China …
Alice Tecotzky / Business Insider:
SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon  —  - Snowflake filed an 8-K after an exec gave financial guidance in an influencer's video.  — The data-storage company said investors …

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