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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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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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Bluesky: @alexeheath.com. X: @firstadopter, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @amitisinvesting, @munster_gene, and @munster_gene
| 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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Threads: @firstadopter. X: @munster_gene, @thetranscript_, @thetranscript_, @deeketweak, @ericjhonsa, @ericjhonsa, and @alexweprin. LinkedIn: Nicole Herskowitz
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs, starting at $1,500, 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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X: @zacbowden, @pavandavuluri, and @tomwarren
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes OpenAI's o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching o1 in October 2024 as a paid Copilot Pro feature — Think Deeper first launched in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature, but it's now free.
More: ZDNET, Thurrott, Windows Central, and TestingCatalog
Bluesky: @jbranchaud, @quinnypig.com, and @techerous
X: @tomwarren and @mustafasuleyman
| 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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Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @mattburgess1, @braithwaite.dev, @marypcbuk, @nathanpeck.com, and @marko.social
Mastodon: @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social and @eloquence@social.coop
X: @mavolpi, @lostinsecurity, @wiz_io, @ceo_clickhouse, @miguel_de_vega, @mayazi, @wiz_io, @dcuthbert, @0ceans404, and @joab_jackson
LinkedIn: Krzysztof Pranczk and Casey Bleeker
Forums: Hacker News, r/programmingHungary, r/cybersecurity, r/technews, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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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X: @europol, @intelbrokerbf, and @darkwebinformer
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos — Meta's newer social network Threads announced on Thursday that it's introducing a dedicated “media” tab for both photos and videos …
More: The Standard, Moneycontrol, and Social Media Today
| 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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Mastodon: @annmlipton@esq.social and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Threads: @katieharbath, @katieharbath, @katieharbath, and @katieharbath
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Forums: r/technology, r/ConservativeKiwi, r/politics, and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| 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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Bluesky: @garymarcus, @marypcbuk, @niedermeyer.online, and @zbs
X: @joshuaogundu, @zachweinberg, and @buccocapital
Forums: r/ValueInvesting and Slashdot
| 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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| 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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X: @lmstudio, @paul_jacob_, @ollama, @tres_sarcastik, @dchaplot, @usb_type_d, @rseroter, @kaggle, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @firstadopter, @binarybits, and @mistralai. LinkedIn: Sophia Yang, Ph.D.
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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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Bluesky: @danielrubino.com, @fxshaw.com, and @tomwarren.co.uk
X: @anshelsag, @azure, @never_released, @never_released, @javaatmicrosoft, @btibor91, @adamclark_dev, @bgurley, @headinthebox, @windowsdev, and @minimaxir. LinkedIn: Engin Erzengin
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Cybersecurity firms Netskope and Armis say “hundreds” of companies and government agencies globally are moving to block DeepSeek due to data leak concerns — - Ireland, Italy seek details on if citizens' data is protected — Companies and government agencies around the world … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ sues to block HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, arguing the deal would harm competition in the enterprise wireless equipment — - Justice Department files complaint in California federal court — Company executives met with DOJ to discuss concerns this week| Stephen Eisenhammer / Reuters: |
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum writes to Google arguing that Maps should not accept Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday presented a letter the government is sending to Google arguing the Google Maps platform … | 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.
More: The Keyword, Tech.co, 9to5Google, KnowTechie, and The Verge
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure with Stargate to support AI development, citing the rise of DeepSeek — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon's lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon's $1.5M partnership with X — - Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal — X owner says journalist's interview led to ‘sour’ relationshipSponsor Posts
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