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Meta reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $39B, net income up 73% to $13.5B, and family daily active people up 7% to 3.27B on average for June 2024; META jumps 5%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.
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X: @jimcramer, @alexeheath, @bluechipdaily, @the_ai_investor, @benitoz, @andrewcurran_, @andrewcurran_, and @ericjhonsa. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: r/technology
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LinkedIn: Matt Mickelson and Rafael Brown
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to scrape Reddit's data, and blocking them has been “a real pain in the ass” — After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data.
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OpenAI tells US lawmakers that it is “dedicated” to “rigorous safety protocols at every stage of our process” and is working with the US AI Safety Institute — OpenAI, responding to questions from US lawmakers, said it's dedicated to making sure its powerful AI tools …
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Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 beta hands-on: meaningful Siri language understanding improvements and Siri text input is nice, but few other notable features — In iOS 18's latest developer preview, Siri gets a glow-up. Like, the whole phone actually glows around the edges when you invoke Siri.| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
WBD, Disney, and Fox plan to launch their joint sports streaming venture Venu for $42.99 per month initially, with a seven-day free trial, expected in fall 2024 — Streaming sports on a stand-alone basis won't be cheap. … The service is expected to debut in the fall in conjunction with the start of the next NFL season.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Don Lemon sues Elon Musk and X, arguing Musk refused to pay him after a content deal with X fell apart; Lemon did not sign a formal contract — The former CNN reporter said in a lawsuit that X had refused to pay him after a testy interview with its billionaire owner.| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find apps, a new in-app browser that supports multiple tabs, and says mini apps have 500M+ out of 950M MAUs — Telegram is refining the in-app expereince, adding a new way to interact with the browser and a Mini App Store for native applications.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $894M, bookings up 22% YoY to $995M, a $206M net loss, average DAUs up 21% YoY to 79.5M, projects Q3 bookings above est. — - Daily users jumped 21% in second quarter from a year ago — CFO Michael Guthrie stepping down to pursue personal interests
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Discord on Xbox gets the ability to watch friends' Discord streams whether they're sharing from a PC, a phone, or an Xbox, rolling out over the coming weeks — Microsoft and Discord are greatly improving the integration of the communication platform into Xbox consoles.
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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the CrowdStrike-caused outage will cost the company $500M, after canceling 6,000+ flights, and Delta will seek damages — WATCH NOW — Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
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Google unveils updates to its Gemma family of open models, including Gemma 2 2B, which it claims surpasses GPT-3.5 and Mixtral 8x7B on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena — Google has unveiled updates to its Gemma 2 family of open-source language models, focusing on improved performance, safety, and transparency.
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LinkedIn: Wenjun Zeng and Ludovic Peran
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Investigation: 2020 to 2023 data shows how thousands of middlemen game the H-1B program and companies that farm out IT workers exploit the US lottery system — Each year in April, the US government conducts a lottery that shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people — and America's future as an economic power.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Economics
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The CISA names Lisa Einstein as its first chief AI officer; Einstein has been a senior adviser at the agency since last year and helped craft CISA's AI roadmap — - She had been a senior adviser at the agency since last year, focused on AI issues — she helped craft CISA's AI roadmap … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes — Byju's, Paytm falter in stark reminder of the unique risks and challenges facing the country's tech economy.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Baidu's experiment with driverless taxis in Wuhan, which became China's biggest proving ground for Baidu's taxis due to a relaxed regulatory approach — Wuhan's experiment with driverless taxis could help China lead the world on the emerging technology. It also risks putting thousands of people out of work.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK told tech companies the AI bill will make existing voluntary agreements legally binding and the AI Safety Institute into an Arm's Length Body — Minister assures tech firms that upcoming legislation will be highly targeted — UK tech secretary Peter Kyle … | Bloomberg: |
While owning less than 1% of TSMC, the number of retail shareholders hit a new high in 2024, as locals believe TSMC's success helps Taiwan fend off China — - Chipmaker is dubbed ‘holy mountain that safeguards the nation’ — Number of retail shareholders has reached a record this year| Tales Azzoni / Associated Press: |
The Premier League, Bundesliga, DAZN, Sky, UEFA, CONMEBOL, and others write to X CEO Linda Yaccarino demanding more action against illegal soccer content on X — Some of Europe's main broadcasters and top soccer leagues have sent a letter to the CEO of social media platform X, Linda Yaccarino … | Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
Bungie says it will lay off 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, and integrate an additional 155 roles into its parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment — “Today is a difficult and painful day.” — Destiny developer Bungie has today announced significant cuts at the studio …
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X: @jasonschreier, @bungie, @a_dmg04, @d2cbro, @griffinwb, @transientgamers, @the_ragespy, @nadiaudio, @kperng, @mangalawyer, @fishprison, @hazelmonforton, @genepark, @ne0mega, @thereallexuzi, @niftybiiscuit, @dirtyeffinhippy, @vahn16, @alex_frostwolf, @dirtyeffinhippy, @mynameisbyf, and @amberillig. Forums: r/pcgaming
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US considers unilateral restrictions on China's access to AI memory chips and equipment, to keep Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung from supplying China — - SK Hynix and Samsung could be affected by the new US rule — China's AI memory chip capability lags behind global rivals
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| Chris Kay / Financial Times: |
Infosys confirms that Indian authorities hit the IT giant with a $3.9B tax demand, covering July 2017 to March 2022, the latest company to get such a demand — Leading tech services provider is latest corporate champion to be handed surprise bill by revenue collectors
More: CIO.com, Business Today, Moneycontrol, and The Register
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU's AI Act takes effect, triggering compliance deadlines for a range of AI developers and apps; most provisions will be fully applicable by mid-2026 — It's official: The European Union's risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence has come into force from Thursday, August 1, 2024.
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Staff memo: Samsung's chip business head Jun Young-hyun warns Samsung risks getting into a “vicious cycle” if the company does not revamp its workplace culture — - Jun Young-hyun replaced his predecessor just a few months ago — It's trying to catch SK Hynix in the hot AI memory chip market
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