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Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $213.39B, vs. $211.33B est., EPS of $1.95, vs. $1.97 est., and net income up 6% to $21.19B; AMZN drops 11%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon projects its 2026 capex to hit $200B, above $146.6B est. and up from $131B in 2025, and reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, above $34.9B est. — Amazon shares plunged more than 10% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings …
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Bluesky: @simli and @josephpolitano
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information to create detailed financial analyses — Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …
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X: @chatgpt21 and @claudeai
LinkedIn: Thomas Remy, Dirk Jonker, Magnus Oxenwaldt, Dave Brown, and Ashraf Alhashim
Bluesky: @cameron.stream and @steveklabnik.com
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
| Anthropic: |
More: Moneycontrol. X: @radiantnous, @krishnanrohit, @mitsuhiko, @tenobrus, @esrtweet, @headinthebox, @chatgpt21, and @deryatr_
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Strategy reports Q4 net loss grew to $12.4B from $671M a year earlier, as BTC trades below its ~$76K average purchase price; MSTR is down 68% in the past year — Shares of the bitcoin-stockpiling company have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October
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| Bloomberg: |
Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more — Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us …
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple wound down plans for an AI-based virtual health coach in recent weeks; Eddy Cue has told colleagues that Apple needs to move faster in health — Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for a virtual health coach, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code “to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer” — Expanding Codex across the full spectrum of professional work on a computer. — Join the Codex app waitlist
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and “is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself” — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.3-Codex helped debug and deploy parts of itself. — Codex can be steered mid-task without losing context.
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| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction — Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 … | Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: |
Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.06B est., GMV up 36% to $13.8B, and forecasts Q3 revenue slightly above est.; AFRM drops 6%+ after hours — Consumer financing firm Affirm Holdings (AFRM) reported fiscal second quarter earnings and revenue that topped consensus estimates.
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| CoinDesk: |
Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token — What to know: … Tether, issuer of the world's most popular stablecoin USDT … , has acquired a $150 million minority stake in Gold.com …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told employees that he's “deeply distraught” with the US's current approach …
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X: @bobbydownes, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @tomsteyer
Bluesky: @hilli.tech, @daniloc.xyz, @seanokane, @durumcrustulum.com, and @tgnyc
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @twostraws@mastodon.social
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Roblox reports Q4 bookings up 63% YoY to $2.2B vs. $2.05B est., DAUs up 69% to 144M, and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates; RBLX jumps 8%+ after hours — Roblox (RBLX.N) forecast fiscal 2026 bookings above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, signaling another year of strong growth …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback — Reddit shares rose 5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat on the top …
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X: @thetranscript_ and @stocksavvyshay
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny — The Meta CEO said Apple seems to get away with less criticism by lying low. … One day after The Wall Street Journal published … | Emily Steel / New York Times: |
A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable — In a federal bellwether case, the jury ordered the ride-hailing giant to pay $8.5 million to Jaylynn Dean, who said one of its drivers assaulted her in 2023.
More: Tech Times, Reuters, Silicon UK, Lawyer Monthly, Bloomberg, and Courthouse News Service
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings — European Union regulators said the app's infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children.| New York Times: |
DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction — The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.
More: Forbes, Inc.com, and Forbes
X: @cowboycrypto313, @nafeezahmed, @aaronrday, and @cryptadamist
LinkedIn: Ryan Mac, Teena Touch, and Katharine Schwab
Bluesky: @rmac, @ering, @noahshachtman, @mcbridetd, @samblum, and @jennycohn. Forums: r/siliconvalley
| Victoria Waldersee / Reuters: |
Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming “human responsibility over AI-powered weapons”, with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges — Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment …
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