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July 24, 2025, 9:00 AM

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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, vs. $94B est., net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12%  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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Financial Times:
The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for “ideological bias” and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer “objective truth”  —  Federal government will only do business with tech companies whose models offer ‘objective truth’
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Bloomberg:
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Reuters:
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam  —  The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers  —  The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone  —  But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? … The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos  —  Photo-to-video lets you take an existing still image in your library and transform it into a “dynamic” six-second clip …
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Financial Times:
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May  —  Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators  —  Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …
IGN:
Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013  —  1.6 million units were sold during its launch month in the U.S., and 82% of buyers also got Mario Kart World.
Sarah Owermohle / CNN:
Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work  —  White Oak, Md. CNN —  To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived …
Google DeepMind:
Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret, attribute, and restore text fragments  —  Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.
Deadline:
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules  —  Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform  —  Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon are set to announce that they've created the ability for institutional investors …
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$16.2B, vs. ~$14.9B est., operating profit up 68% to ~$6.7B, vs. ~$6.5B est., expects sustained HBM demand in 2025  —  South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter on sustained demand …
Bloomberg:
AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost “more than 5% but less than 20%” above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said that the chips her company gets …

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