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July 27, 2023, 5:40 AM

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Meta Investor Relations:
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 7%+  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023.  —  “We had a good quarter.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Scott Nover / Quartz:
CNN:
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT  —  New York CNN —  —  US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Bloomberg:
New rules approved by the SEC require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying that it has a material impact  —  - Delay possible if public safety or national security at risk  — Some business groups argued that deadline was too short
Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q2 revenue of ~$47.21B, a 22% YoY drop and below analyst expectations of ~$47.7B, and operating profit of ~$525M, a 95% YoY drop  —  - Samsung is the world's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are found in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers.
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David Welch / Bloomberg:
Waymo plans to slow the development of autonomous trucking as the company moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing  —  Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that's being done by its Via subsidiary.
David Pierce / The Verge:
A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance  —  A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future.  They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free.
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Wes Davis / The Verge:
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks”  —  / T-Mobile's new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Sources: the California AG is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and ex-employees about Autopilot safety issues and advertising complaints  —  - The California attorney general is investigating Tesla, CNBC has learned, seeking information from customers …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing  —  Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.
Medha Singh / Reuters:
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers  —  Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …

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