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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 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 29, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026.| 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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| 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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| 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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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| 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: |
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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 — Barrage of Big Tech Earnings Beat Estimates to Mixed Reaction — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 5.55% Playback Rate
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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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| 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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| 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 eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits on Thursday, hitting a new record … | 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 … | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate — The payments giant added support for Stripe's Tempo, Circle's Arc, Coinbase's Base, Polygon and Canton Network as stablecoins gain traction in global money movement.| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices — Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months| New York Times: |
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting — For years, DribbleUp, a sports equipment company, spent its own time and resources figuring out whom it should advertise its basketballs and soccer balls to on Facebook.
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| Frank Konkel / Nextgov/FCW: |
FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines — The first-of-its-kind pilot could lead to speedier regulatory approval of medical drugs and devices and potentially reduce …
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| 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 …
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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 …
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| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.09B, vs. $3.04B est., net income up 2% to $512M, GMV up 18% to $22.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates — The company logged a profit of $512 million, or $1.12 a share — EBay recorded higher profit and revenue in its latest quarter as gross merchandise volume climbed.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the White House opposes Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos to 70 additional companies and organizations because of concerns about security — Relationship is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to de-escalate — The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic …
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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 …
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| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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