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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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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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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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says spending heavily on AI infrastructure is a “strategic advantage” and vows Meta will invest “hundreds of billions” in AI over the long term — U.S. markets panicked on Monday over speculation that DeepSeek's AI models would crush demand for GPUs, with Nvidia's stock dropping almost 20%.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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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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LinkedIn: Krzysztof Pranczk and Casey Bleeker
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B to $25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make SoftBank OpenAI's biggest backer — Deal would make Japanese group biggest financial backer in ChatGPT maker — SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI …
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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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| Bloomberg: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users — Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Vodafone makes “the world's first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025 — It's partnered with Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile on a direct-to-smartphone satellite service it plans to launch in Europe later this year.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon's lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon's $1.5M partnership with X — - Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal — X owner says journalist's interview led to ‘sour’ relationship| NewsGuard's Reality Check: |
NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek's chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate — The new Chinese AI tool finished tied for 10th of 11 chatbots tested — Special Report — Chinese artificial intelligence …
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X: @newsguardrating, @marionawfal, and @deitaone
| 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 bitcoin and other crypto — 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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Bluesky: @owillis. X: @thestalwart, @byzgeneral, @sjdedic, @altcoin_gold, @kobeissiletter, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, @arkham, and @ericbalchunas. Forums: r/btc
| 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%+ — - Software business revenue gained 10%, fueled by Red Hat — IBM gives a forecast for free cash flow that tops estimates
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