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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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| 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 … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the MI300 AI chips did over $1B in sales in Q2 and that supply of MI300 chips will remain tight through 2025 — AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company's sales are now data center products … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
After users reported Meta's AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted assassination of Trump didn't happen, Meta blames hallucinations for the response — Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …
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| 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.| Reuters: |
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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| 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 …
More: Benzinga. Threads: @alexa.corse, @alexa.corse, and @karaswisher. X: @barbariancap. LinkedIn: Momo J.
| 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 …
More: Avalanche, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, NFTgators, CoinGape, Quartz, Cointelegraph, The Daily Hodl, and crypto.news
Threads: @gwestr. X: @avax, @bondjanebond, @kevinsekniqi, @jacqmelinek, @smyyguy, @john1wu, and @avalabs
Forums: Hacker News, r/California, and r/Hedera
| 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 … | Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
A profile of Bengaluru-based Pocket FM, which has 2,000+ audio shows with 10- to 15-minute episodes and is working with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio — Pocket FM is teaming up with U.S. text-to-speech app ElevenLabs to produce more shows for less time and money. — • MUMBAI, INDIA
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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 … | Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia shares close down 7% to $103.73, after falling ~23% since July 10, as investors pull back from large tech stocks amid doubts over AI spending paying off — - Gauge of Nvidia's 10-day volatility twice as high as Bitcoin's — The stock sees biggest drop since April in shift from techSponsor Posts
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