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Apple reports Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B, marking its largest annual quarterly revenue decline since 2016, and net income down 13% YoY to $30B — Installed base crosses 2 billion active devices and hits all-time high for all major product categories — Services set new all-time revenue record
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Apple missed expectations for revenue, profit, and sales for many of its lines …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Sundar Pichai says Google will make LLMs like LaMDA available “in the coming weeks and months”, and users will be able to use them “as a companion to search” — Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analysts' expectations …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google invested $300M in Anthropic, taking a 10% stake in the generative AI startup and requiring it to spend the money on Google Cloud — Cash-for-computing deal shows how large tech groups are investing in companies at the vanguard of generative AI
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Inside ChatGPT's rushed launch, as OpenAI feared that rivals might upstage them; Sam Altman now worries about regulatory backlash and inflated expectations — Even inside the company, the chatbot's popularity has come as something of a shock. — One day in mid-November …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Activision Blizzard to pay $35M to the SEC to settle claims it violated federal whistleblower protections and failed to maintain adequate disclosure standards — - Activision Blizzard will settle with the SEC for $35 million, over claims that the company violated federal whistleblower protections … | Wall Street Journal: |
Documents offer a look at the four men, including a former child actor, who control ~86% of Tether Holdings, incorporated in 2014, and their ties to Bitfinex — The stablecoin has become a lucrative business at center of crypto economy — Tether Holdings Ltd. operates a $68 billion stablecoin …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more — “I'm not paying a dime to Elon lol.” — Pranav Dixit — One of the most popular bots on Twitter is @MakeItAQuote, which has more than 565,000 followers.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source, document, and emails: PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch have committed to spending $3M+ and $2.4M, respectively, on Twitter takeover ads during the Super Bowl — After weeks of turmoil and layoffs, Twitter's sales team in recent weeks has reorganized to focus more on big advertisers … | Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3 — The solution ostensibly ends worries about what would happen to customer funds if Binance and WazirX end their collaboration.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FTC is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, though the timing remains in flux, and is scrutinizing Amazon Prime's bundling practices — Federal Trade Commission considers challenge to array of practices by Amazon, a target of criticism from Chair Lina Khan
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| Matt Richtel / New York Times: |
Some US emergency services operators say they are inundated with false calls placed by the Apple Watches or iPhone 14s of skiers and other fitness enthusiasts — 911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A former employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of confidential data in December 2020 and extorting the company for ransom — Nickolas Sharp, a former Ubiquiti employee who managed the networking device maker's cloud team, pled guilty today …
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Department of Justice, SecurityWeek, and The Register
Tweets: @windscribecom, @quinnypig, @troyhunt, @seanwrightsec, @tomlawrencetech, and @jbadomics
| Amazon: |
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022. Fourth Quarter 2022
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