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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90.1B, above $87.62B est., and says 365 Copilot has 30M+ paid seats, up from 20M+ in Q3; MSFT jumps 7%+ pre-market — REDMOND, Wash. — July 29, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft reports Q4 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 43% YoY, above 40% est., and says Azure revenue in FY 2026 exceeded $100B for the first time — Microsoft shares moved 8% higher in extended trading on Wednesday after the software maker disclosed strong fiscal fourth-quarter revenue … | Reuters: |
Microsoft reports Q4 capex up 70% YoY to $41B; an accounting change lowers its 2026 capex forecast to $175B from $190B, while spending plans remain unchanged — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Wednesday said it expects to keep generating cash through its fiscal 2027 and gave a capital expenditure …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a $3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~$600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis — When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft reports Q4 Windows OEM and Devices revenue down 7% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, and Xbox content and services revenue down 10% — Microsoft's cloud division revenue soared 27 percent to $59 billion. … Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content … | Meta: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $60.8B, family DAP up 3% to 3.6B on average for June, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; META drops 8%+ pre-market — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
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| Reuters: |
Meta reports free cash flow of $784M in Q2, down 91% YoY, and now expects 2026 capex to be $130B to $145B, compared with its prior forecast of $125B to $145B — Meta Platforms (META.O) reported a precipitous 91% drop in free cash flow on Wednesday, underscoring the financial strain …
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The FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums — Did you hear it was just a ban on Chinese humanoid robots? It's not. … But spying doesn't require legs — and neither does the FCC's robot ban.
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Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue down 4% YoY to $9.95B, forecasts Q4 profit below est., and expects revenue from Apple to fall faster; QCOM drops 7%+ pre-market — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) forecast fourth-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, and said revenue from Apple (AAPL.O) …
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Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 130% YoY to ~$118.1B, below ~$118.9B est., and operating profit up 1,814% to ~$61.46B, above ~$60.68B est., on robust AI demand — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| Bloomberg: |
Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the DSA as soon as August — OpenAI's ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under … | The Information: |
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns — Lilian Weng, a researcher who cofounded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati …
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| Reuters: |
Arm reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.29B, above $1.26B est., royalty revenue up 22% YoY to $715M, and forecasts Q2 profit above est. — Arm Holdings forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling strong demand for its energy-efficient chip designs for AI data centers.
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A source and docs: Intel has given access to its Atom processor tech to Rosaic, a new startup led by Amarjit Gill; Lip-Bu Tan and Gill are longtime co-investors — Intel (INTC.O) has provided access to some of its processor technology to a new startup, according to a source and documents reviewed …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones — Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads …
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| Google: |
Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control — Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Though Google's SynthID tech for watermarking AI images is hard to break, there will always be ways to create AI-generated content without any labeling — Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future. — The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp.| K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
Airlines are using AI to adjust seat prices more quickly, capturing more revenue while narrowing the pricing gaps that once let travelers find bargain fares — Globetrotters hunting for airfare bargains are in for a rude awakening: the days of stumbling across a cheap seat on a popular flight could soon disappear.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Onyx Security, whose platform enables enterprises to deploy AI agents securely, raised a $113M Series B led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $153M — Just four months after emerging from stealth, the Israeli startup is betting that securing AI agents will become one of cybersecurity's biggest markets.
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| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The co-founder of the UK-based science start-up explains how AI can help create new materials to address some of the world's most complex challenges| Bill Peters / MarketWatch: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.31B, above $1.29B est., event contracts revenue up over 10x to $156M, and crypto revenue down 38% YoY to $100M — Prediction-market revenues on the popular trading app increased tenfold during the second quarter
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A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips — The Chinese company behind TikTok is pouring resources into the technology. Some think it is a big gamble.| Financial Times: |
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