Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue up 15% YoY, and net income up 10% YoY to $24.1B
Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today” and he is focused on returning to “OG Facebook” in 2025
Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes …
Mark Zuckerberg says spending heavily on AI infrastructure is a “strategic advantage” and vows Meta will invest “hundreds of billions” in AI over the long term
Wall Street breathes a sigh of relief X: Tae Kim / @firstadopter : For Zuckerberg to come out guns ablazing saying he expects Llama 4 to be the best AI model in the world when it comes out, if true, m...
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot
The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended — President Trump has signed settlement papers …
Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys
China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records …
OpenAI says the US National Laboratories will use its o1 models for research; it will work with Microsoft to deploy a model on Los Alamos' Venado supercomputer
OpenAI on Thursday said the U.S. National Laboratories will be using its latest artificial intelligence models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security.
Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs, starting at $1,500, or $500 more than Qualcomm variants
Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses. — Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses.
Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI business has surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $13B, up 175% YoY, as the company faces new scrutiny over AI spending
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Vodafone makes “the world's first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025
It's partnered with Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile on a direct-to-smartphone satellite service it plans to launch in Europe later this year.
Microsoft adds DeepSeek's R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, and plans to make a distilled, smaller version of R1 available to run locally on Copilot+ PCs soon
Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers. — Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.
Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users
Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent …
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B to $25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make SoftBank OpenAI's biggest backer
Deal would make Japanese group biggest financial backer in ChatGPT maker — SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI …
Microsoft Q2: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 4% YoY, gaming revenue down 7%, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 2%
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Mistral launches Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model that it says is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B
Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s — Today we're introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Microsoft reports Q2 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 19% YoY to $25.5B, vs. $25.8B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 31%, down from 33% in Q1
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and Satya Nadella says that LinkedIn passed a record $2B in Premium subscriptions revenue in the last 12 months
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Microsoft makes OpenAI's o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching o1 in October 2024 as a paid Copilot Pro feature
Think Deeper first launched in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature, but it's now free.
Microsoft's stock fell 5%+ after saying it expects revenues for the current quarter to range between $67.7B and $68.7B, compared to $69.78B est.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum writes to Google arguing that Maps should not accept Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday presented a letter the government is sending to Google arguing the Google Maps platform …
Google announces new Gemini features for Google Sheets, letting Workspace users ask Gemini to generate static charts, analyze data, and more
What's changing — Building data visualizations and identifying trends in data is a critical business function, however it can be time consuming and oftentimes overwhelming.
Trump Media unveils fintech brand Truth.Fi with an investment of up to $250M, which can be allocated to various investments, like bitcoin and other crypto
Trump's Net Worth Spikes Over $200 Million Mohammad Shahid / BeInCrypto : Trump Media Group to Invest Up to $250 Million in Crypto with Truth.Fi Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Trump Media announces Bitco...
An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”, social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more
The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up. — Take billionaires.
Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure with Stargate to support AI development, citing the rise of DeepSeek
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure …
Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon's lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon's $1.5M partnership with X
- Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal — X owner says journalist's interview led to ‘sour’ relationship
NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek's chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate
Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ deepseek-d... X: @newsguardrating : In DeepSeek's first appearance in NewsGuard's red-team audit of AI tools, the Chinese AI chatbot...
Fairshake, the crypto super PAC bankrolled by Coinbase, a16z, and others, says it has $116M in cash on hand aimed at the 2026 midterm election cycle
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance, and battery life, slimmer bezels, and new 50MP UW sensor, but no S Pen Air actions and pricey
Sam Rutherford / Engadget :
Documents: in the Biden administration's final days, the FTC sent info demands to Uber and Lyft, as it probes whether they coordinated to limit NYC driver pay
- Uber, Lyft had 30 days to respond to FTC information demands — Companies say they're working with the FTC on the inquiries
The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational and available to researchers, offering over 1 FP64 exaFLOPS performance
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware :
Cybersecurity firms Netskope and Armis say “hundreds” of companies and government agencies globally are moving to block DeepSeek due to data leak concerns
Bloomberg :
The US DOJ sues to block HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, arguing the deal would harm competition in the enterprise wireless equipment
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
How Epic is transforming Fortnite into a content platform, paying $350M to creators in 2024; 36.5% of the total playtime was spent in games made by creators
impressive, but smaller than Roblox — made me want to dig into the YouTubeification of gaming. What are islands if not just creator channels? Decentralized, but connected content in one centralized sy...
STMicro reports Q4 revenue down 22.4% YoY to $3.32B, net income down 68.3% YoY to $341M, and projects Q1 revenue down 27.6% YoY to $2.51B, below $2.72B est.
Mistral AI, seen as Europe's great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions
Financial Times : X: @workmj and @starcourse . Forums: Slashdot X: Michael Jackson / @workmj : “One investor in Mistral is less bullish in private. ‘They are starting to see the writing on the wall,’...
French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
A look at FathomVerse, a mobile game that helps scientists identify deep sea creatures by using players' contributions to train AI for underwater robots
Todd Woody / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Todd Woody LinkedIn: Todd Woody : New: Some good news about AI. The ocean is a bulwark against climate change but most of the marine organisms crucial to the carbo...
During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick called the CHIPS Act an “excellent down payment” but pledged to review binding awards
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg :
Motif, which is building cloud-native 3D computer-aided architecture design tools with AI features, raised $46M in seed and Series A funding
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Sources: the Trump administration is exploring additional curbs on the sale of chips to China to cover Nvidia's scaled-down H20, designed for the Chinese market
Bloomberg :
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