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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 15%, LinkedIn up 9%, and net income up 10% to $24.1B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
More: New York Times and Constellation Research
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft reports Q2 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 19% YoY to $25.5B, vs. $25.8B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 31%, down from 33% in Q1 — Microsoft shares fell 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the software company issued fiscal second quarter results …
More: The Information, GeekWire, Reuters, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Associated Press, Proactive, Benzinga, and CRN
| Meta: |
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.
More: Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and CNBC
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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LinkedIn: Xingchu Liu, Ph.D., Pritam Bordoloi, Guan Seng Khoo, PhD, and Georg Zoeller
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a DeepSeek-linked group obtained a large amount of data from OpenAI's API in an unauthorized manner — Microsoft's security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount …
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board” — Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …
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| Dario Amodei: |
DeepSeek makes US export controls to China even more important, and DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough but an expected point on a cost reduction curve — A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China. Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company …
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LinkedIn: James Garner and Fred Bliss
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net profit of €2.69B on €9.26B net sales, net bookings up 169% QoQ to €7.09B, and expects 2025 net sales of €30B to €35B, up from €28.3B in 2024 — Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on Wednesday reported a big jump in fourth-quarter net bookings …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Comcast starts rolling out its “pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity experience” to select US cities, using the L4S standard to significantly cut latency — The new technology is based on a standard called L4S, which can significantly reduce latency to help things like video games feel smoother.
More: Comcast, PCMag, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, Apple World Today, TechSpot, CGMagazine, and Digital Trends
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Trump Media unveils fintech brand Truth.Fi with an investment of up to $250M, which can be allocated to various investments, like BTC and other cryptocurrencies — Truth Social parent Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT.O) said on Wednesday its board of directors has approved the launch …
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| Stefano Bernabei / Reuters: |
DeepSeek disappears from Apple's and Google's app stores in Italy, a day after Italy's data protection regulator said it asked DeepSeek about personal data use — The Chinese artifical intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday.
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| New York Times: |
How employees at Meta, Google, and more have quietly protested tech's rightward shift, as Mark Zuckerberg and others embrace Trump and muffle internal dissent — As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies … | Wall Street Journal: |
US officials and Google researchers: China, Iran, and 18+ other countries use AI tools like Gemini to bolster their cyberattacks against US and global targets — A cyber-threat report from Google is shedding light on how foreign actors are leveraging generative AI to boost their hacking prowess.
More: Google Cloud Blog, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, and ComputerWeekly.com
X: @philvenables, @azakasekai_, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, and @jsrailton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Trump administration is exploring additional curbs on the sale of chips to China to cover Nvidia's scaled-down H20, designed for the Chinese market — - Officials had very early talks about restricting the H20 chip — Nvidia designed the scaled-down H20 product for Chinese market
More: Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, Wccftech, Benzinga, TipRanks Financial, and FX Empire
X: @kobeissiletter and @mackhawk
| Matthew Connatser / Tom's Hardware: |
Huawei adds DeepSeek's R1 to its ModelArts Studio platform, saying the free model is “Ascend-adapted”, referencing its data center GPUs, but offers few details — Nvidia has competition in China. … The tech company explicitly said this version is “Ascend-adapted,” as in Huawei's Ascend data center GPUs.| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
The US Copyright Office says using AI tools to assist in creative processes doesn't compromise copyright protections as long as the content has human authorship — The U.S. Copyright Office declared Wednesday that the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist in the creative process does not undermine the copyright of a work.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump signs an agreement calling for Meta to pay ~$25M to settle a 2021 lawsuit he brought after Meta suspended his accounts after the January 6 riot — The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended — President Trump has signed settlement papers …
X: @rebeccaballhaus, @mattgertz, and @meghanbobrowsky
| New York Times: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government, bringing his friends and employees, as he races to cut staff; Musk's plane has not left DC since the inauguration — The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix now lets iPhone and iPad app users download an entire TV show season with one tap, a much-requested feature that launched on Android in 2021 — The new feature lets users download an entire season of a show with one tap.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add Starlink support from iOS 18.3; T-Mobile is testing it with some users, exclusively for texting — - T-Mobile begins pushing offering in limited beta test to users — Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX …
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