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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $64.7B, net income up 10% YoY to $22B, Office Commercial revenue up 12% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 10% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — July 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft Q4: Intelligent Cloud revenue up 19% YoY to $28.52B, vs. $28.68B est., including Azure and other cloud services up 29% YoY; MSFT drops ~3% after hours — Microsoft shares fell 7% in extended trading on Tuesday as investors looked past better-than-expected earnings and revenue … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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The US Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act by a vote of 91 to 3; the bills now head to the House — The Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA 2.0) …
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LinkedIn: Dr. Ashwin Vasan, Lennon Torres, and Hari Ravichandran
Forums: r/privacy, r/technology, and r/centrist
| Kate Gibson / CBS News: |
The US CPSC rules that Amazon is legally responsible for recalled products sold on Amazon.com, even by third parties, and must remove them and notify purchasers — Amazon distributed hundreds of thousands of hazardous products sold by third-parties through the e-commerce giant's platform …
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Meta agrees to pay $1.4B to settle Texas' lawsuit accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without consent — Meta Platforms (META.O) has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state's lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $5.83B, vs. $5.72B est., Data Center revenue up 115% to $2.8B, net income up 881% to $265M, Q3 revenue forecast above est. — Advanced Micro Devices reported second-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and showed continued growth … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI begins rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, initially criticized for sounding like Scarlett Johansson during its demo in May, to ChatGPT Plus users — OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode on Tuesday, giving users their first access to GPT-4o's hyper-realistic audio responses.
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
California's DMV says it has created tokens for 42M car titles on the Avalanche blockchain and aims to help state residents access them via an app by early 2025 — California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology in a bid …
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Sources: Intel may unveil plans as early as this week to cut thousands of jobs to reduce costs and fund a rebound from an earnings slump and market share losses — - CEO Gelsinger embarks on ambitious effort to regain share — Chipmaker is spending on research, development and new plants
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025 — The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant. But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.
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LinkedIn: Avi Schiffmann and Magdalena Sawicka
Forums: r/agi, r/aiwars, r/privacy, and r/artificial
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Zscaler ThreatLabz and Chainalysis say ransomware group Dark Angels received a payment worth ~$75M in early 2024, the largest known ransomware payment to date — A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang, according to a report by Zscaler ThreatLabz.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with partners such as Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, and WordPress.com, after weeks of plagiarism accusations — Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with publishing partners following weeks of plagiarism accusations.
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| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
The SEC charges BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji for raising $257M+ from unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT and lying to investors about taking from proceeds — The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has hit the founder of decentralized social network BitClout with fraud charges … | Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
EA reports Q1 net bookings down 20% YoY to $1.26B, above expectations, revenue down 14% YoY to $1.66B, and net income down 30% YoY to 280M — Electronic Arts has announced its financial results for the first quarter quarter of FY25. The game publisher's $1.262 billion …
More: Electronic Arts, Reuters, and Variety
| Jeff Stone / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft calls on the US Congress to pass a comprehensive law to crack down on AI deepfakes that aim to interfere in elections or maliciously target people — - Law enforcement needs a clear legal framework, Brad Smith says — Elon Musk recently shared manipulated clip of Kamala Harris| The Information: |
Meta scraps its celebrity AI chatbot feature less than a year after launch and now expects people to use Meta's new AI Studio to customize their own AI avatars — Meta Platforms has scrapped its first high-profile foray into consumer artificial intelligence—chatbots played by celebrities …
More: The Verge and Maginative
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| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
The UK ICO says the country's election authority failed to take “basic steps” to protect the personal data of 40M voters before a 2021 China-backed cyberattack — ‘Basic steps’ including updating passwords were missed before 2021 hack, finds Information Commissioner| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 23.42% YoY to ~$53.45B, vs. ~$53.3B est., operating profit up 1,458% YoY to ~$7.5B, as AI memory chip demand remains strong — Samsung Electronics on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected second-quarter revenue and operating profit, as demand for its advanced memory chips …
More: Wall Street Journal and Samsung
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Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature-limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category — Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2. The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY — Tensions over the division of labor with Musk have stymied some of Yaccarino's initiatives — X Corp. Chief Executive Linda … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix files to raise $1.8B in a new debt offering, its first since the company was elevated to investment-grade status by Moody's and S&P Global — The raise would be the company's first debt offering since being elevated to investment-grade status last year.Sponsor Posts
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