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Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $81.27B, above $80.27B est., net income up 60% YoY to $38.5B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 26% YoY to $51.5B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 28, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B, vs. $58.35B est., net income up 9% to $22.8B, and family DAP up 7% to 3.58B for December; META up 6%+ pre-market — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta expects 2026 capex at between $115B to $135B, compared with a $110.6B analyst estimate and $72.2B in 2025, driven by investments in Superintelligence Labs — Meta Platforms Inc.'s better-than-expected sales outlook helped ease Wall Street concerns about plans for unprecedented spending on artificial intelligence this year.
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| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Security researchers warn Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, requires a specialist skillset to use safely, as data exposure risks persist even when set up correctly — The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it
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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google Chrome is being upgraded with Gemini 3 and a revamped sidepanel UX.
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price rises and HBM demand — Samsung Electronics shares rose 2.4% Thursday after the company reported an over threefold surge in fourth-quarter operating profits … | Kara Carlson / Bloomberg: |
Tesla agrees to invest $2B in xAI for preferred shares as part of xAI's Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November 2025 that failed to win approval — Tesla Inc. reported fourth-quarter profit that surpassed expectations, showing the automaker is making progress toward overcoming rising costs … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it took legal action to take down dozens of domains and disrupt the residential proxy network of Chinese company Ipidea, widely used by bad actors — Company targets global network employed by hackers that often use devices running in homes of everyday Americans
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Sources: the White House will meet with banks and crypto firms on Monday to discuss a path forward for crypto legislation stalled by a clash between the sectors — The White House on Monday will meet with executives from the banking and cryptocurrency industries to discuss a path forward …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of iPhone camera app Halide and who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team — Halide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple's human interface design team.
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks — Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta …
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| Tom Knowles / The Guardian: |
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them “irresponsible” for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis — Advertising Standards Authority says firm advised by George Osborne ‘trivialised risks of cryptocurrency’
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix announces a new US-based “AI Company” from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity — South Korean memory giant SK Hynix announced Wednesday that it will set up a new U.S.-based company focused … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $19.7B, above $19.2B est., and projects 2026 revenue growth and free cash flow above estimates; IBM jumps 8%+ — International Business Machines Corp. reported quarterly sales that topped analysts' estimates on strong growth for its closely watched software unit.
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people — OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning orb …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
ServiceNow reports Q4 revenue up 20.5% YoY to $3.57B, above $3.53B est., and subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.47B; NOW drops ~3% — ServiceNow topped Wall Street's fourth-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday, but shares fell more than 3%. — Here's how the company performed versus LSEG estimates:
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Fidelity Investments announces its own stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar, or FIDD, available to institutional and retail clients in the coming weeks — Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, announced on Wednesday it will launch its own stablecoin.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents, raised a $250M Series D led by Coatue and Index Ventures at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in June 2025 — Decagon AI Inc., a customer support startup, has raised $250 million in a new round of funding that triples its valuation to $4.5 billion …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
A federal judge in Virginia ruled that Norfolk's use of ~200 Flock automated license plate scanners is constitutional and doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment — A federal judge in Virginia ruled Tuesday that the City of Norfolk's use of nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
The US construction industry is adopting AI tools to improve project management and support site managers and foremen; IDC says 60% of firms use some form of AI — New AI tools are helping managers stay on top of the complex processes underpinning an exploding sector| Momoka Yokoyama / Bloomberg: |
Advantest shares hit a record high after the chip equipment maker beat Q3 earnings estimates and raised its FY operating profit forecast from $2.45B to $2.97B — Advantest Corp. shares jumped as much as 14% to a record high after the company beat earnings estimates and raised its forecast.
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| Wired: |
The US DHS confirms NEC is the vendor that sold Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition app used by federal immigration agents to identify people, to CBP and ICE — Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
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