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April 30, 2025, 6:30 PM

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Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $70.1B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 11% YoY, and net income up 18% YoY to $25.8B  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Third Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Reuters:
Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, net income up 35% YoY to $16.6B, and family daily active people up 6% YoY to 3.43B on average for March 2025  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Verge:
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai said Google expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by mid-2025 and Tim Cook told him Apple plans to add more AI models this year  —  Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company plans to roll out its Gemini integration by the end of this year.
Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says the DOJ's proposal to share Google search data with rivals amounts to a “de facto” spinoff of Google's search engine and its IP  —  - Alphabet CEO testifies as part of Justice Department lawsuit  — Rivals could reverse-engineer ‘every aspect of our technology’
Financial Times:
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US to court if necessary to protect European customers' “continuity of access” to its services  —  Tech group says it would sue to keep European access to crucial cloud services  —  Microsoft's top legal officer …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Duolingo launches 148 new language courses developed with generative AI, doubling its offerings for non-English speakers within a year, as it aims for 1B+ users  —  On Wednesday, Duolingo signaled that approach is helping to rapidly expand its language-learning courses …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 4, benchmarks, AI friends, DeepSeek, China, export controls, open source, monetizing AGI, aligning with Trump, and more  —  Zuck on:  — Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs closed  — Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo:
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight  —  In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's.  —  Egg-headed venture capitalist …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more  —  Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it's not replacing the Wikipedia community …
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3  —  The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
Bloomberg Tax:
Sources: Ripple has proposed a takeover of Circle for $4B to $5B, a bid that was rejected as too low; Ripple remains interested in Circle  —  Ripple has proposed a takeover of rival stablecoin provider Circle Internet Group Inc. for $4 billion to $5 billion, a bid that was rejected as too low …
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Meta, Spotify, and Match launch the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience, a lobbying coalition to take on Apple and Google over user age verification  —  App makers Meta Platforms Inc., Spotify Technology SA and Match Group Inc. are girding for a high-stakes political battle …
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing  —  Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg:
TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site  —  The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site …

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