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Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 15% YoY, and net income up 10% YoY to $24.1B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| 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 tumbled as much as 5% in extended trading Wednesday after the software company issued fiscal second-quarter results …
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| 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.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's Reality Labs posts Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.1B est., and a $4.97B operating loss, vs. $5.4B est.; Reality Labs has lost $60B+ since 2020 — Meta continues to lose billions of dollars developing the virtual reality and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the nascent metaverse.| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle a 2021 lawsuit that Trump brought against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6 riot — The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended — President Trump has signed settlement papers …
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| Wired: |
Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys — China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records …
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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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| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon — Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers. — Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.
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| 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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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.6B, vs. $17.5B est., bookings for AI consulting and software crossed $5B, up from $3B in Q3; IBM jumps 8%+ after hours — - Software business revenue gained 10%, fueled by Red Hat — IBM gives a forecast for free cash flow that tops estimates
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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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| 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 … | 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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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says cheaper AI “could mean more applications” and “more demand over time”, and “cost and energy” are the big issues to address — WATCH NOW — Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML expects new low-cost models like the one rolled … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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