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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., and Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est.; GOOG jumps 6%+ after hours — Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 29, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Alphabet updates its 2026 capital expenditure guidance range to $180B to $190B, up from $175B to $185B, and expects capex to “significantly increase” in 2027 — Alphabet reported first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, showing revenue that topped expectations boosted by its surging cloud business.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta raises its 2026 capex to between $125B and $145B, exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting $115B to $135B; META drops 6%+ after hours — Meta Shares Plunge as AI Investments Raise Spending Outlook — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 12.32% Playback Rate
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, says “scrutiny on youth-related issues” and trials may “result in a material loss” — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $82.9B, net income up 23% to $31.8B, and says its AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37B, up 123% — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Third Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — April 29, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats — Microsoft issued higher-than-expected capex guidance for 2026, with the software maker's quarterly earnings and revenue topping estimates.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $181.5B, up 17% YoY, net income of $30.3B, up 77%, and operating income of $23.9B, up 30% YoY — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2026. - Net sales increased 17% to $181.5 billion in the first quarter …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool” for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars — Billionaire says OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman wasn't honest about nonprofit mission
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round at a $900B+ valuation, after previously resisting investor proposals at an $800B+ valuation — Anthropic PBC has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the artificial intelligence developer at more than $900 billion …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to ~$90.2B, vs. ~$89.4B est., and operating profit up 756% to ~$38.5B, vs. ~$37.2B est., driven by AI-linked memory demand — Samsung Electronics reported an over eight-fold increase in first-quarter operating profits on Thursday, hitting a new record … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Sources: PayPal is separating Venmo into its own standalone unit and is looking to recruit a digital banking executive to run the new Venmo segment — PayPal CEO Enrique Lores has this week told managers that he is reorganizing the firm's reporting lines to separate Venmo … | Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation — Masayoshi Son plots IPO for business named Roze as soon as this year — SoftBank is planning to create and list an AI …
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The European Union's executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $10.6B and says a top hyperscaler is on track to begin using its chips later this year; QCOM jumps 12%+ after hours — Qualcomm Inc. rallied in late trading after the company said it was making headway in the lucrative data center market and predicted …
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| Reuters: |
SpaceX IPO filing: Elon Musk can only be removed as CEO via a vote by holders of Class B super-voting shares, which he will control post-IPO, a rare provision — SpaceX is telling investors that no one can fire Elon Musk from his role as chief executive and chairman of the board without … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says the Gemini app can now generate files; supported formats include PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Docs and Sheets, plain text, and Markdown — You can now ask the Gemini app to directly generate “downloadable and ready-to-share files.” Google wants you to …
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| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models — THE SCOOP — Two Republican-led House committees are probing Airbnb and Anysphere, maker of AI coding platform Cursor … | Financial Times: |
Google has told employees in a memo that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts — The tech giant signed an artificial intelligence deal with the defence department on Monday| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit “and Other Stuff” and built by an early Twitter employee, debuts with ~500K restored Vine videos — A new project to bring back Vine's six-second looping videos is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play.
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| Fortune: |
Meta quietly rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts on Solana and Polygon for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines — Meta has reentered the stablecoin market. Four years after pulling the plug on an earlier attempt, the tech giant has quietly rolled out the digital currency payouts … | Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” — Chief executive Sam Altman's flexible approach to infrastructure projects is unsettling partners but boosting computing lead
More: Tom's Hardware, OpenAI, and Spyglass
| Bloomberg: |
Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China — A US company has tested a brain implant in a Chinese patient in Shanghai, a rare sign of cooperation as the two countries compete …
More: China Money Network, Digital Trends, and Axoft
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 — Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app — Apple Inc. is planning to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into the iPhone's camera app, adding a new Siri mode alongside … Sponsor Posts
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