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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 … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft Q3: Intelligent Cloud revenue up 21% YoY to $26.75B, vs. $26.16B est., Azure and other cloud services up 33%, above est.; MSFT jumps 5%+ after hours — Microsoft shares rose more than 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results driven by its Azure cloud business.
More: Investor's Business Daily, Quartz, MediaPost, and Benzinga
| 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.
More: New York Times, CNBC, Blockchain.News, Shacknews, and The Wrap
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says he had at least a “couple” of calls with Tim Cook in 2024 about a Gemini deal; Cook said Apple plans to add more AI chatbots — Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook had at least a “couple” of phone calls last year where Pichai made the case …
| 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 …
More: Microsoft, Politico, ai fray, CNBC, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, UPI, Atlantic Council, Le Monde, Benzinga, DatacenterDynamics, Silicon Republic, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @pieterhaeck, @simonpetersen.net, @katjabego, and @parismarx.com. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
X: @privacymatters, @benjaminbjerre, and @bradsmi
| 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 …
More: Duolingo, Inc., TechCrunch, The Verge, Digital Trends, Benzinga, Neowin, UPI, USA Today, Mashable, WPXI-TV, ZDNET, The Decoder, Fast Company, WinBuzzer, Freelance Informer, Analytics India Magazine, and Tom's Guide. LinkedIn: Luis von Ahn
| 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
More: Meta, Engadget, Social Media Today, The Next Platform, Forbes, News9live, Analytics India Magazine, InfoWorld, CNET, and Washington Post
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| 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 …
Bluesky: @nzkoz, @normal-form, @alajon, @ryanparker.xyz, @jwmckenzie, @artison, @oldbk, @keblaster, @illuminatus, @davidarch, @wilkos, @doctor-multiverse.com, @jedgeco, @noupside, @jakeekiss, and @balbrecht
X: @texas_libtard, @lib_crusher, @transjesster, @kevinroose, @gao_ag, @loganbartlett, @nikhil_palsingh, @biedersam, @thegpatty, @drmistercody, @chaykak, @dylanmatt, @bigblackjacobin, @bennpeifert, @object_zero_, @summeroffilm, @secretcfo, @robinsonmeyer, @ns123abc, @jolyonklebold, @vitrupo, and @vcbrags. Forums: r/technology
| 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
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/DeepSeek
| 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 …
More: Wikimedia Foundation, Neowin, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @wikimediafoundation.org and @chrisalbon.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/wikipedia, and Slashdot
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @davemurphy. X: @matthew_sigel, @wublockchain, @sytaylor, @twobitidiot, @johnedeaton1, and @tier10k
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Intel EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell is resigning “in order to pursue another career opportunity” after joining in February 2022 — Christoph Schell, Intel's EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after a two-year stint, according to a filing with the SEC.| 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 …
More: MacRumors, mjtsai.com, Deadline, Mashable, GuruFocus, and Cult of Mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Gizchina.com, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, XiaomiTime, South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
Bluesky: @sungkim. X: @bgurley, @jagersbergknut, @_akhaliq, @gm8xx8, @sino_market, and @adinayakup. Forums: Hacker News
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Visa announces Visa Intelligent Commerce, opening its payment network to developers building AI agents to find and buy products for users — AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding — even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network … | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
More: The Block, Blockworks, CoinDesk, FinTech Futures, Reuters, NFTgators, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Filing: PayPal discloses that the US SEC said in February 2025 that it was closing its investigation into the PayPal USD stablecoin “without enforcement action” — PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant's US-dollar stablecoin.
More: US SEC, WinBuzzer, Decrypt, DL News, Blockchain News, CryptoNinjas, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, and Bloomberg
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 50% YoY to $927M, vs. $920.1M est., crypto transaction revenue up 100% to $252M, increases share buyback authorization by $500M — The trading platform's results could give an indication for Coinbase's earnings on May 8. — What to know:
More: The Block, Blockchain.News, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, and Robinhood
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Nuvo, a B2B startup that scales trade partnerships by streamlining credit approvals and more, raised a $34M Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital — Nuvo, a company that has built a social-like platform to facilitate easier purchasing of physical goods between businesses …
More: PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and FinSMEs
LinkedIn: John-Michael Hanks and Nichole Wischoff
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
EA says it laid off staff and canceled “two early-stage incubation projects”; sources say EA cut 300 to 400 roles and its Respawn unit canceled a Titanfall game — The video-game publisher cuts between 300 and 400 jobs — Electronic Arts Inc. is laying off hundreds of workers …
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Bluesky: @jasonschreier, @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, and @dell
Forums: r/gamernews, r/programming, r/vfx, r/3Dmodeling, r/gamedev, r/DeadSpace, r/ApexUncovered, r/xbox, r/Madden, r/gaming, r/Games, r/titanfall, r/pcgaming, r/StarWarsLeaks, and Slashdot
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