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Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.66B est., net income up 5% YoY to $24.78B, and China net sales down 2% YoY to $16B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high — EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2: iPhone up 2% YoY to $46.84B, vs. $45.84B est., Mac up 7% to $7.95B, iPad up 15% to $6.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 5% to $7.52B — Apple reported second fiscal-quarter earnings Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, but the company's closely-watched Services division came up light versus estimates.
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, MarketWatch, and Financial Times
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $26.65B, a new record but below $26.7B est. — The company overall topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter as investors awaited word on how President Trump's tariffs might hurt its business.| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.7B, operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and net income up 64% YoY to $17.1B; AMZN drops ~4% after hours — - Net sales increased 9% to $155.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $143.3 billion in first quarter 2024.
More: Associated Press and ZeroHedge News
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $29.3B, vs. $29.42B est., and AWS operating income up 23% YoY to $11.55B — Amazon reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter, driven by growth in its cloud computing and advertising businesses, but it gave soft guidance for the current period.| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules that Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to third-party payment options, and refers the case for a criminal investigation — Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says it will take a 0% store fee from developers on their first $1M in revenue per app per year, and plans to let developers open their own webshops — Less than 24 hours after Apple's legal defeat over its App Store model, Epic Games is wasting no time.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft raises the prices of its Xbox Series S and X consoles, Xbox controllers, and some new Xbox games globally; the consoles are priced $80 to $100 more — New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023 — WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company's Q1 results conference call on Wednesday.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says “a small percentage” of Search users in the US will start seeing an AI Mode chatbot tab “in the coming weeks”; AI Mode uses Google's search index — An AI Mode tab will soon start appearing in Search for a handful of US users.
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
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| Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC: |
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling “tall tales” after the startup argued for tighter export controls by saying China is smuggling chips in “prosthetic baby bumps” — Nvidia blasted Anthropic Thursday in a rare public clash over artificial intelligence policy with U.S. chip export restrictions set to take effect.
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| Lindsay Clark / The Register: |
Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model — New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers — Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for AI app developers — Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI's o3-mini on at least one benchmark.
More: Microsoft Azure, Hugging Face, arXiv.org, Tom's Guide, and WinBuzzer
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Meta updated Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses' privacy policy on April 29 to enable the Hey Meta voice command by default, store voice recordings for a year, and more — The company has removed the option to disable your voice recordings from being stored, among other changes.
More: TechCrunch, Livemint, PetaPixel, and TechRadar
| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO — The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president's executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Polygon staff, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games publication has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet — One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up — The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users — Anthropic on Thursday launched a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded “deep research” … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: about a month ago, Tesla's board opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the succession planning status is unknown, but Tesla denied the report — With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company
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| Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more — An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
London's Court of Appeal rules Apple must pay Optis $502M as a lump sum for using Optis' 4G patents from 2013 to 2027, overturning a 2023 High Court decision — Apple (AAPL.O) must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads …
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether says its “total exposure” to US Treasurys had neared $120B at the end of March, and reports $1B+ in Q1 operating profit from traditional investments — - Tether said its “total exposure” to U.S. Treasurys had neared $120 billion at the end of March.
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| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields — Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer. sking scientists …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features like Cursor and goes further than its current coding assistant, Amazon Q Developer — Artificial intelligence-assisted coding firms are some of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley right now, drawing attention from OpenAI, among others.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Pinterest rolls out an “AI modified” label globally to indicate AI-generated or AI-edited images, identified via metadata analysis and its own AI classifiers — AI labels are coming to a platform that sorely needed them. … Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform.| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q1 revenue down 3% YoY to $5.77B, vs. $6.2B est., gross profit up 9% to $2.3B, below est., issues weak profit guidance; XYZ drops 15%+ after hours — WATCH NOW — Block reported first-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations on Thursday and issued a disappointing outlook.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out native AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those the app generates using natural language text prompts — After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.
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