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Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (Bloomberg)

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31 October 2024

Apple Q4 revenues: down 0.3% YoY to $15B in China, up 7.6% to $5.9B in Japan, up 16.6% to $7.38B in the rest of Asia-Pacific, and up 11% to $24.9B in Europe (Nikkei Asia)

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Apple Q4 revenues: down 0.3% YoY to $15B in China, up 7.6% to $5.9B in Japan, up 16.6% to $7.38B in the rest of Asia-Pacific, and up 11% to $24.9B in Europe  —  PALO ALTO, California — Apple reported a record revenue for the July-September quarter on Thursday, reflecting early signs of the AI-powered iPhone 16's strength.

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Tether reports Q3 net profits of $2.5B, driven by gains in its US Treasury and gold holdings and bringing YTD profit to $7.7B, as USDT market cap nears $120B (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Tether reports Q3 net profits of $2.5B, driven by gains in its US Treasury and gold holdings and bringing YTD profit to $7.7B, as USDT market cap nears $120B  —  The company also owns a significant amount of gold and the big move higher in the yellow metal boosted profits.

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Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $46.22B, Mac up 2% YoY to $7.74B, iPad up 8% YoY to $6.95B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% YoY to $9.04B (CNBC)

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Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $46.22B, Mac up 2% YoY to $7.74B, iPad up 8% YoY to $6.95B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% YoY to $9.04B  —  Apple reported earnings after the bell.  Here are the results.

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Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est. (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.  —  Apple missed Wall Street earnings forecasts, as smartphone revenue — including sales of its new AI-enabled iPhone 16 …

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Apple reports fourth quarter results (Apple Inc.)

Apple Inc.:
Apple reports fourth quarter results  —  iPhone drives record September quarter revenue Services revenue reaches new all-time high  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2024.  The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion …

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Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Select Shopping  — Ad Choices

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Intel reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $13.28B, vs. $13.02B est., a net loss of $16.99B, and Q4 guidance above estimates; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Intel reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $13.28B, vs. $13.02B est., a net loss of $16.99B, and Q4 guidance above estimates; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Intel shares jumped 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected revenue and issued quarterly guidance that topped expectations.

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Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B estimated, amid the company's push to insert ads into Prime Video (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B estimated, amid the company's push to insert ads into Prime Video  —  Amazon reported its third-quarter 2024 earnings, revealing ad sales rose 19% year over year amid the company's push to insert ads into Prime Video.

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During a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman says GPT-5 likely won't come this year as OpenAI faces "limitations and hard decisions" in allocating compute resources (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Hayden Field / CNBC:
During a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman says GPT-5 likely won't come this year as OpenAI faces “limitations and hard decisions” in allocating compute resources  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Thursday that his company's next big AI model release likely won't come this year as the company is …

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Amazon Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $158.9B, a $15.3B net income vs. $9.9B in Q3 2023, a $17.4B operating income vs. $11.2B in Q3 2023; AMZN jumps 5%+ after hours (Amazon.com, Inc.)

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Amazon Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $158.9B, a $15.3B net income vs. $9.9B in Q3 2023, a $17.4B operating income vs. $11.2B in Q3 2023; AMZN jumps 5%+ after hours  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

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Meta is working with Wonik and GelSight to develop and commercialize tactile sensors for AI, including the Allegro robotic hand and Digit 360 tactile fingertips (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta is working with Wonik and GelSight to develop and commercialize tactile sensors for AI, including the Allegro robotic hand and Digit 360 tactile fingertips  —  Meta says it's partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI.

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Microsoft delays the rollout of its controversial Recall feature to December to "refine the experience", after previously pushing it from June to October (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft delays the rollout of its controversial Recall feature to December to “refine the experience”, after previously pushing it from June to October  —  Microsoft says it needs more time to make sure the AI feature is ‘a secure and trusted experience’

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Israel-based Decart, which lets organizations train massive AI models at scale while reducing costs, raised a $21M seed led by Sequoia and says it's profitable (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Israel-based Decart, which lets organizations train massive AI models at scale while reducing costs, raised a $21M seed led by Sequoia and says it's profitable  —  The Israeli startup has built an AI infrastructure platform that enhances the efficiency of AI models, offering faster …

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Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players (Gene Park/Washington Post)

Gene Park / Washington Post:
Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players  —  The Call of Duty series has sold more than 500 million copies to date, according to publisher Activision-Blizzard.  “Black Ops 6” set launch-day records.

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OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters  —  The artificial intelligence developer's chatbot can now search and summarize the web.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence …

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Sources: Waymo was valued at more than $45B, after it raised $5.6B last week, led by Alphabet (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Waymo was valued at more than $45B, after it raised $5.6B last week, led by Alphabet  —  - Company is rapidly expanding number of ride-hailing trips … The business said late last week that it had raised $5.6 billion in new capital at an undisclosed value.

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Filing: Trump's World Liberty Financial plans to raise ~$30M from investors, down from the $300M it had originally sought, after WLFI token sales fell short (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Filing: Trump's World Liberty Financial plans to raise ~$30M from investors, down from the $300M it had originally sought, after WLFI token sales fell short  —  The revised plan to sell only $30 million of WLFI tokens — instead of the originally planned $300 million …

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Microsoft says Windows users will only be able to buy one year of Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 for $30, after support ends in October 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says Windows users will only be able to buy one year of Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 for $30, after support ends in October 2025  —  Microsoft is finally revealing that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10.

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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google  —  The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.

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Sophos details a five-year battle with Chinese hackers exploiting its firewalls, and how its device "implants" traced the hacks to a university and a contractor (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Sophos details a five-year battle with Chinese hackers exploiting its firewalls, and how its device “implants” traced the hacks to a university and a contractor  —  Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so …

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Kuo: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips made by TSMC's N7 process and with Wi-Fi 7 in the iPhone 17 lineup, reducing its reliance on Broadcom (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips made by TSMC's N7 process and with Wi-Fi 7 in the iPhone 17 lineup, reducing its reliance on Broadcom  —  Apple's big launches for 2024 are nearly complete, so reports are going to pick up regarding the 2025 product lineup.

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OnePlus unveils the OnePlus 13, its next flagship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 12GB+ RAM, and a 6,000mAh battery, available in China on November 1 for ~$630+ (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
OnePlus unveils the OnePlus 13, its next flagship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 12GB+ RAM, and a 6,000mAh battery, available in China on November 1 for ~$630+  —  OnePlus has officially announced its next flagship smartphone, the new OnePlus 13.  Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor …

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The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai  —  The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai.

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Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS  —  Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps.  —  Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which …

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Google adds Gemini in Google Maps in the US, with AI-summarized reviews and answers to conversational questions by users, and adds 150 cities to Immersive View (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google adds Gemini in Google Maps in the US, with AI-summarized reviews and answers to conversational questions by users, and adds 150 cities to Immersive View  —  Google Maps is getting a big update that's supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI.

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The Biden admin unveils an $825M investment in an Albany-based chip research and development facility; the NTSC says the facility aims to drive EUV innovation (Reuters)

Reuters:
The Biden admin unveils an $825M investment in an Albany-based chip research and development facility; the NTSC says the facility aims to drive EUV innovation  —  The Biden administration on Thursday announced an $825 million investment in a new semiconductor research and development facility in Albany …

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