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Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $113.83B, above $111.43B est., Cloud revenue up 48% to $17.66B, vs. $16.18B est., and net income up 30% to $34.46B — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.
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Alphabet says it expects 2026 capex to be between $175B and $185B, above ~$120B est. and up from $91.4B in 2025; Q4 capex was $27.9B, up from $14B in Q4 2024 — Search giant reports more than $400bn in annual revenue for the first time — Google said it plans to double its capital expenditure … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access” — First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won't do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.7B, vs. ~$23.5B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.3B, vs. ~$3B est., and raises FY operating profit outlook by 8% — Sony on Thursday reported a rise in operating profit that beat expectations, supported by favorable foreign exchange rates despite surging memory chip costs.
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Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as technical advisor, a “shadow” role often leading to greater responsibilities — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has tapped one of the company's top marketplace executives to be his new “shadow” advisor, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data — As a consortium of investors led by Oracle's Larry Ellison took control of TikTok's U.S. business, users accused the app … | Reuters: |
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.24B, above $1.22B est., and license and other revenue up 25% YoY to $505M, below $519.9M est.; ARM drops 7%+ pre-market — Shares of Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F), fell on Wednesday as its licensing revenues slightly missed Wall Street estimates …
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Amazon MGM Studio plans to develop new AI tools via its “AI Studio” to speed TV and film production and cut costs, in collaboration with AWS and LLM providers — Amazon (AMZN.O) plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows …
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Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.21B est., and projects Q2 revenue below est. due to memory supply shortages; QCOM drops 9%+ pre-market — Chip supplier Qualcomm (QCOM.O) forecast second-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google teases the Pixel 10a in a new 15-second video, revealing a completely flat dual-camera system on the back, and says preorders begin on February 18 — Google this morning officially announced the Pixel 10a via a video teaser emphasizing the updated design.
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Multicoin co-founder and Managing Partner Kyle Samani says he is stepping back from the VC firm and has transitioned to an advisory role — Quick Take — Kyle Samani, known for his early investment in Solana as part of Multicoin, is stepping back from the crypto-focused venture capital firm.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B, vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M, below 478M est., forecasts Q1 revenue below est., and plans a $500M buyback — Snap shares were up over 5 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the Snapchat-parent released fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales.
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor fears that software companies face an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the belief that they might be facing one is damaging their stocks — Fears that software companies are facing an extinction event are exaggerated, but other dangers are real| Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services — Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across … | Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an “AI mathematician” it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems — Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology's steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.| Bloomberg: |
TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make advanced 3-nanometer chips in Japan, stepping up its semiconductor manufacturing roadmap …
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Adaption Labs, which aims to create AI systems that learn continuously and cost less to run, raised a $50M seed round led by Emergence Capital Partners — Sara Hooker, an AI researcher and advocate for cheaper AI systems that use less computing power, is hanging her own shingle.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M — Software supply chain security startup RapidFort Inc. announced today that it has raised $42 million in early-stage funding …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics — An AI model developed by Google DeepMind is giving athletes like Maddie Mastro new insights into how their bodies move
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Workday is cutting ~400 employees, or ~2% of its workforce, primarily in customer-facing roles, saying the move will help it invest in priority areas — Workday Inc. is cutting about about 400 employees, saying it will help the software company better invest in priority areas.| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Uber promotes Balaji Krishnamurthy, its former VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah — Uber is promoting Balaji Krishnamurthy, its VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing its current finance chief Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah.
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