Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, vs. $94B est., net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12%
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules
Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for “ideological bias” and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer “objective truth”
Federal government will only do business with tech companies whose models offer ‘objective truth’
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam
The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013
1.6 million units were sold during its launch month in the U.S., and 82% of buyers also got Mario Kart World.
At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was “very hard” and “I learned the facts here”
President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition …
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone
But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? … The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) …
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers
The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.
Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now
The new Colorsoft costs $30 less and comes with half the storage than the model Amazon released last year.
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago
and costs Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily : Google Earnings, Revenue Top Estimates. Capital Spending Guidance Hiked Amid AI Investments. Kayla Cobb / The Wrap : YouTube Ad Revenue Up 13% ...
Microsoft says the “Storm-2603” group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+
A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment …
Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M+ MAUs, with daily requests up 50%+ from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B+ MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M+ MAUs in the US and India
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos
Photo-to-video lets you take an existing still image in your library and transform it into a “dynamic” six-second clip …
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May
Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators
Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …
Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work
White Oak, Md. CNN — To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived …
Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces “major improvements” later this year
Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years.
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount
Google announced on Thursday that it's launching a new AI feature that lets users virtually try on clothes.
In Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are “goods” that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mixed ruling in the longstanding case between Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club …
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.
Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company, acquires Indiegogo, which has 38M members and will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound's flat 5% fee
Both platforms will continue to exist separately. … Indiegogo is being acquired by the board game crowdfunding platform Gamefound …
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration
In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia Bluesky: @cathfletcher . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Catherine Fletch...
Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform
Hugh Son / CNBC :
Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API
OpenAI's open language model is still arriving ahead of GPT-5. … Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers were preparing server capacity …
Lyft rolls out letting riders “favorite” or block drivers to enhance loyalty from riders and drivers; favorites get priority for future scheduled rides
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Interviews with 12+ Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox executives and others show the challenges facing US robotaxis; Waymo operates 250K+ rides per week in five US cities
The concept has been proved, but scaling up services beyond a handful of cities will require tens of billions in new investment
Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March
The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf. — SaveComment Bluesky: @rashis Bluesky: Rashi Shrivastava / @rash...
Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches “AI colleagues” that it says can work and interact just like human employees
Leena AI Inc., the developer of an employee-facing agentic artificial intelligence assistant, today announced the launch …
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight months
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product. Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) …
ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7%+
Samantha Subin / CNBC :
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$16.2B, vs. ~$14.9B est., operating profit up 68% to ~$6.7B, vs. ~$6.5B est., expects sustained HBM demand in 2025
2nd Update Evertiq AB : SK Hynix reports record jump in profit as demand for AI chips soars Jo He-rim / THE INVESTOR : SK hynix posts record quarterly profit on AI chip boom Chris Mellor / Blocks and ...
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% YoY to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost “more than 5% but less than 20%” above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end
costs ‘more than 5% but less than 20%’ higher than Taiwan-sourced alternative Ayomide Sadiq / TalkAndroid.com : TSMC American-Made Chips Are Great, But They Cost a Lot More Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga :...
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit accusing Intel of defrauding shareholders by hiding problems in its foundry unit, news of which led to a $32B one-day stock fall
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Intel (INTC.O) of defrauding shareholders by concealing problems in a business …
Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025
Figma Make is out of beta and no longer reserved just for Figma's full-access subscribers. … Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool …
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business in the US after the passage of Genius Act, with a focus on institutional markets
Bloomberg :
The CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that it approving Broadcom's $61B VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :
Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B+ each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March
As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it's getting help from more of its existing investors.
Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms
Bloomberg :
Armada, whose mobile AI data centers for use in remote environments have been used by the US Navy, raised $131M, bringing its total funding to $200M+
Cal Biesecker / Defense Daily :
Q&A with Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju on taking over from Emad Mostaque, his movie background, data and copyright, working with creative industries, and more
The boss of StablityAI insists film industry fears about the impact of the popular image-generating model are misplaced
The EU says it will investigate whether KKR provided incorrect or misleading information in its €22B acquisition of Telecom Italia's fixed-line network
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG and intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
YouTube has become a valuable resource for professional chefs and, in recent years, has helped skilled amateurs build culinary reputations and open restaurants
Kate Krader / Bloomberg : See also Mediagazer
Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia :
LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M+
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boom
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