Amazon Q3: revenue up 13% YoY to $143.1B, net income up 244% to $9.9B, operating income up 343% to $11.2B, subscription revenue up 14% to $10.2B; AMZN jumps 6%+
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023.
In a testimony without the jury present, SBF says he followed the counsel of lawyers to make critical decisions around passing FTX customer money to Alameda
Former crypto billionaire blames lawyers as court hears first snippets of testimony without jury present
A live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony in front of a jury at his criminal fraud trial in NYC over the collapse of FTX
given how today's testimony went even with limited ammunition from prosecutors, it seems disastrous to allow SBF to undergo cross-examination in the presence of a jury Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjaco...
Microsoft reorganizes its Xbox teams, promoting Matt Booty to game content president and Sarah Bond to Xbox president; CMO Chris Capossela leaves after 32 years
Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and marketing leadership, less than two weeks after acquiring Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft publishes a profile of Octo Tempest, a “dangerous” hacking group targeting organizations across tech, gaming, financial services, and other sectors
Microsoft has published a detailed profile of a native English-speaking threat actor with advanced social engineering capabilities …
Cruise pauses all driverless operations two days after the California DMV suspended its permits, but will continue operating supervised autonomous vehicles
Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department …
What to expect from Apple's “Scary Fast” event on Monday: high-end MacBook Pros with M3 Pro and M3 Max, new 24-inch iMac with M3, and USB-C accessories
The company is poised to introduce computers with speedier chips. — Apple Inc.'s last product unveiling of the year kicks off on Monday …
AWS Q3: sales up 12% YoY to $23.06B, vs. $23.2B est., operating income up 29% YoY to $6.98B, vs. $5.63B est., operating margin of 30.3%, the widest in two years
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Amazon Q3: ad services revenue up 26% YoY to $12.1B, vs. $11.6B est., North American sales up 11% YoY to $87.9B, and International sales up 16% YoY to $32.1B
Driven in Part by ‘TNF’ Theo Wayt / The Information : Amazon's Ad Growth Driven Mostly by Search, Not Video Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon Advertising Revenue Soars to $12B in Q3 Earnin...
The UN creates a 39-member body, including tech executives, government officials, and academics, to examine issues in the international governance of AI
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday announced the creation of a 39-member advisory body to address issues …
Businesses are using SEO-driven names like Thai Food Near Me and Dentist Near Me to optimize for Google Search, but the scheme is likely technically ineffective
Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. X: @megangra , @gpanger , and @lorenzojuniah X: Megan ...
The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill becomes law, allowing fines of up to £18M or 10% of global turnover; Ofcom now plans to publish its codes of practice
Our new regulatory framework for enhancing online safety has just become law, and now the real work begins. … Forums: r/antipornography : The UK moves closer to protecting children from online adult c...
OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against “catastrophic risks”, including biological and nuclear threats
from today's models to AGI. Goal: a quantitative, evidence-based methodology, beyond what is accepted as possible: https://openai.com/... Forums: r/technews : OpenAI forms team to study ‘catastrophic’...
Chinese smartphones sales fell 3% YoY in Q3; Honor leads with 18.3%, Huawei grew the most, up 37% YoY, after the Mate 60's launch, and Apple dropped 10% YoY
- In Q3 2023, smartphone sales in China declined 3% YoY in a sign the market could be closer to bottoming out.
Source: Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino referenced ambitions to create a news wire service called XWire, akin to Cision's PR Newswire, during an all-hands
Executives at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, said they see YouTube and LinkedIn as future competitors while pursuing new business lines in video and hiring.
Filing: Tata Group acquires the India unit of Apple manufacturer Wistron for $125M; an Indian IT minister says Tata will make iPhones for the global market
Tata Group will start making iPhones in India for the local and global markets, India's Deputy IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday …
Documents: Shein and PDD's Temu file joint declarations in the US to end their legal fights, asking judges to dismiss the cases “without prejudice”
Fierce rivals Shein and PDD Holdings-owned (PDD.O) Temu have applied to end their legal fights with each other in the U.S. …
Leica releases the $9,480 M11-P camera, which watermarks photos with the Content Credentials metadata system, created by advocacy groups to fight misinformation
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Intel Q3: revenue down 8% YoY to $14.2B, Data Center and AI Group revenue down 10% YoY to $3.8B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; INTC jumps 8%+
Chavi Mehta / Reuters :
Huawei reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$19.9B, revenue for Q1 to Q3 2023 up 2.4% YoY to ~$62.3B, and a 16% profit margin in Q1 to Q3, up from 15% in H1 2023
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
Meta declines its Oversight Board's advice from August 2023 to tighten its oversight of drug-related posts; the Oversight Board calls the decision “unfortunate”
How OpenAI is using ChatGPT prompt engineering to get around fundamental biases in DALL-E 3, discourage it from recreating the work of living artists, and more
Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI's image generation model. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social , @waxy@xoxo.zone , and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net X: @joedevon...
Google rolls out new Google Maps features, including updating search to more easily find things nearby and expanding Immersive View for Routes to 15 new cities
thanks to AI Jason Bouwmeester / Techaeris : Google Maps AI-powered features like Immersive View rolling out Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Google updates Maps with a flurry of AI features including ‘I...
Xiaomi unveils the 6.36" Xiaomi 14 and 6.73" Xiaomi 14 Pro, offering the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 50MP camera sensors, a Leica lens on the Pro, and LTPO 120Hz panels
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Sources: Flexport is in talks to buy the tech of collapsed digital freight startup Convoy, a move that would expand Flexport's push into the US trucking market
The deal would move the digital-focused freight forwarder into the domestic trucking market — Flexport is in talks to buy …
Uber starts offering rides in fully autonomous Waymo cars in Phoenix, Arizona; users can accept or reject the autonomous option, which includes a 24/7 helpline
This is a narrative violation of the Tesla bull thesis that Tesla is a trillion dollar company because it will launch a self driving car business that will render Uber obsolete. … @paninid@mastodon.wo...
Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestinian protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war; one virtual protest area has been visited 275K+ times
Oxide Computer, which aims to provide on-premise cloud computers including to clients like the Idaho National Laboratory, raised a $44M Series A led by Eclipse
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world's … Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat : Cloud vs. on-prem? Oxide wants to bring together the best of both worlds Intel Capital : Investing in O...
X's tumultuous first year under Elon Musk: mobile DAUs down 16% from October 2022 to September 2023, app downloads fell after X rebrand, and investor markdowns
Some TikTok creators are running “Israel vs. Palestine live matches”, where the side with the most gifts from followers wins; TikTok takes a 50% cut of earnings
In the fast-paced world of social media, a disturbing trend has emerged on TikTok. …
Google expands its bug bounty program to add generative AI, which has unique security issues, like model manipulation and unfair bias, requiring new guidance
Sarah Fielding / Engadget :
Sources detail the rushed timeline for the UK's AI Summit, its expanded scope, which now covers everything from healthcare to deepfakes, and more
Financial Times :
X rolls out opt-out audio and video calling to some users, who can allow incoming calls from users in their address book, users they follow, and Premium users
Samsung offers Galaxy smartphone and tablets running One UI 6 a Temporary Cloud Backup feature with unlimited storage for up to 30 days for free, matching Apple
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Michigan-based Censys, which monitors internet hosts and their security statuses, raised a $50M Series C and $25M in debt, taking its total funding to $128.1M
A look at Apple's double tap gesture, rolling out in watchOS 10.1, letting Series 9 and Ultra 2 users interact with their watch without using its touchscreen
Cranium, which provides enterprise AI security and trust software and spun out of KPMG in April 2023, raised a $25M Series A led by Telstra Ventures
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