Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $90.2B, net income up 46% to $34.54B, Services revenue up 10% to $77.3B, and Other Bets revenue down 9% to $450M
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 24, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more
Apple Watch turns a decade old today. Cheers to 10 amazing years! 🥂 Threads : Allow the use of cookies from Threads by Instagram on this browser? Bluesky: @thespoileralert : Is t...
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he has raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything”
We want to cheat on everything. Yep, you heard that right. Interviews. Business Today : AI startup Cluely raises $5.3 million to let users ‘cheat on everything,’ even job intervi...
OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API
OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, “4.1” — as if the company's nomenclature wasn't confusing enough already.
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences
Here's How to See Posts From Your Friends Instead of Algorithms Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes ‘throwback to OG Facebook’ Emma Crabtree / ...
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week
Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol , @karlbode.com , a...
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range
This is excellent news!! Will definitely be adopting this API in AltStore — https://www.macrumors.com/... Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : Wrote about Apple's clever answer t...
Apple says it is working to fix an issue after users said its automatic dictation system was transcribing the word “racist” as “Trump”, before correcting itself
The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash via its API, an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro version via its apps, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and 2.0 Flash-Lite in AI Studio
Gemini 2.0 AI updates include cheaper access for developers, and AI that can use other Google apps like YouTube.
Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content”
Threads is officially getting ads — https://www.theverge.com/... #Threads #Meta #Ads #SocialMedia #Tech — [image] Threads: Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : We're starting a small tes...
Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg ...
Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.
Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives
Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer — I. The past
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer — I. The past
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday. — In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …
o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024
This is “The AI Economy,” a weekly LinkedIn-first newsletter … Sharon Goldman / Fortune : Sam Altman says OpenAI's new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this A...
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights
PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot — The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.