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Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today” and he is focused on returning to “OG Facebook” in 2025 — Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes …
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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 15% YoY, and net income up 10% YoY to $24.1B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says the US National Laboratories will use its o1 models for research; it will work with Microsoft to deploy a model on Los Alamos' Venado supercomputer — OpenAI on Thursday said the U.S. National Laboratories will be using its latest artificial intelligence models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security.| Wired: |
Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys — China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users — Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot — The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended — President Trump has signed settlement papers …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B to $25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make SoftBank OpenAI's biggest backer — Deal would make Japanese group biggest financial backer in ChatGPT maker — SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs starting at $1500, or $500 more than Qualcomm variants — Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses. — Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Vodafone makes “the world's first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025 — It's partnered with Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile on a direct-to-smartphone satellite service it plans to launch in Europe later this year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon — Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers. — Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.
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| Mistral AI: |
Mistral launches Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model that it says is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B — Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s — Today we're introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”, social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more — The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up. — Take billionaires.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes OpenAI's o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching it in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature — Think Deeper first launched in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature, but it's now free. — Think Deeper first launched …
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| Google Workspace Updates: |
Google announces new Gemini features for Google Sheets, letting Workspace users ask Gemini to generate static charts, analyze data, and more — What's changing — Building data visualizations and identifying trends in data is a critical business function, however it can be time consuming and oftentimes overwhelming.
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