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A look at the "Palantir Mafia", a group of Palantir alumni who have started or are leading 350+ tech companies, including at least a dozen valued at $1B+ (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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31 July 2025

Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $512.3M, vs. $501.21M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue of $543.5M to $544.5M, vs. $538.6M est. (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $512.3M, vs. $501.21M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue of $543.5M to $544.5M, vs. $538.6M est.  —  Shares in Cloudflare Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the content delivery network company impressed investors with earnings …

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Apple incurred ~$800M in tariff-related costs in Q3, $100M less than expected, and expects a jump to $1.1B in Q4 if current rates and policies remain in place (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple incurred ~$800M in tariff-related costs in Q3, $100M less than expected, and expects a jump to $1.1B in Q4 if current rates and policies remain in place  —  Trump's tariffs are increasingly costing Apple more per quarter  —  Apple's bill for Trump's tariffs in the third quarter …

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Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.6B est., and retail trading volume up 16% to $43B, vs. $48.05B est.; COIN drops 6%+ after hours (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.6B est., and retail trading volume up 16% to $43B, vs. $48.05B est.; COIN drops 6%+ after hours  —  Coinbase shares fell Thursday after gains in the cryptocurrency exchange's subscription revenue failed to offset weaker trading volumes.

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Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since its 2007 launch; it reached 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since its 2007 launch; it reached 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021  —  Apple reported its fiscal Q3 2025 earnings today, beating analyst expectations in key categories like revenue, earnings per share, iPhone revenue, and more.

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Apple Q3: iPhone up 13% YoY to $44.58B, vs. $40.22B est., Mac up 15% to $8.05B, iPad down 8% to $6.58B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 9% to $7.4B (Apple)

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Apple Q3: iPhone up 13% YoY to $44.58B, vs. $40.22B est., Mac up 15% to $8.05B, iPad down 8% to $6.58B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 9% to $7.4B  —  June quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue and EPS  —  Services revenue reaches new all-time high

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Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est. (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est.  —  Apple continued to drive double-digit growth in its Services business, which increased revenue 13.3% to $27.42 billion for the June 2025 quarter — a new quarterly record.

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Apple reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $94B, its largest quarterly growth since December 2021, net income up 9% to $23.4B, and China net sales up 4% to $15.4B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $94B, its largest quarterly growth since December 2021, net income up 9% to $23.4B, and China net sales up 4% to $15.4B  —  Apple Apple reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue.

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Roku reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.07B est., a net profit of $10.5M, and Platform segment sales up 18% to $976M (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.07B est., a net profit of $10.5M, and Platform segment sales up 18% to $976M  —  Roku exceeded expectations for the second quarter of 2025, with the streaming platform company turning in better-than-expected 15% top-line growth — and a quarterly profit.

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Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, operating income up 31% YoY to $19.2B, and net income up 35% YoY to $18.2B (Amazon)

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Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, operating income up 31% YoY to $19.2B, and net income up 35% YoY to $18.2B  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2025.  - Net sales increased 13% to $167.7 billion in the second quarter …

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Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 17.5% YoY to $30.9B, vs. $30.8B est., and AWS operating income up 8.8% YoY to $10.2B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 17.5% YoY to $30.9B, vs. $30.8B est., and AWS operating income up 8.8% YoY to $10.2B  —  Amazon's cloud group grew recorded revenue growth of 18% in the second quarter, slightly ahead of analysts' estimates.  —  Amazon Web Services continues to lead …

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Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Coinbase says its new “everything exchange” will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months  —  Coinbase is planning to expand its core trading app beyond crypto, the company said Thursday.

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Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $15.7B, vs. $14.9B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $12.2B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $15.7B, vs. $14.9B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $12.2B  —  Amazon one-day stock chart  — CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Select Shopping  — Ad Choices

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Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 78% YoY to $500M, vs. $426M est., daily active uniques up 21% to 110.4M, Q3 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours (Angela Palumbo/Barron's Online)

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online:
Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 78% YoY to $500M, vs. $426M est., daily active uniques up 21% to 110.4M, Q3 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours  —  earnings greatly beat expectations and the company provided better-than-expected revenue estimates for its third quarter on Thursday.

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Sources: Salesforce and ServiceNow are in talks to invest ~$750M each in Genesys, which uses AI to automate customer service functions, valuing Genesys at ~$15B (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Salesforce and ServiceNow are in talks to invest ~$750M each in Genesys, which uses AI to automate customer service functions, valuing Genesys at ~$15B  —  Salesforce Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. are each in advanced talks to invest about $750 million apiece in Genesys Cloud Services Inc. …

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The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to "modernize" securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to “modernize” securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday debuted “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize securities rules and regulations to allow for crypto-based trading.

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Sources detail the rise and fall of Builder.ai, as founder Sachin Duggal's alleged financial transgressions fueled the first big bust of the generative AI era (Bloomberg)

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Sources detail the rise and fall of Builder.ai, as founder Sachin Duggal's alleged financial transgressions fueled the first big bust of the generative AI era  —  Sachin Dev Duggal helped Builder.ai reach a $1.5 billion valuation.  Then its board ousted him amid allegations of inflated revenue and the startup filed for bankruptcy.

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Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition  —  Figma's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO.

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A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)

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A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research  —  Over the summer, Matt Deitke got a phone call from Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive.  —  Mr. Zuckerberg wanted Mr. Deitke …

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Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of its app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Epic Games (Bloomberg)

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Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of its app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Epic Games  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google lost its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of the technology giant's app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc.

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Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is impersonating Kaspersky and leveraging Russian ISPs to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is impersonating Kaspersky and leveraging Russian ISPs to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow  —  The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic …

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Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is impersonating Kaspersky and leveraging Russian ISPs to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is impersonating Kaspersky and leveraging Russian ISPs to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow  —  - Notorious espionage group impersonated Kaspersky hit targets  — Malware tools decrypted sensitive data to gather intelligence

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Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25+ companies as competitors (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25+ companies as competitors  —  Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents.

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Tether reports Q2 net profit of $4.9B, a quarterly record, and says it held nearly $9B in bitcoin at the end of the quarter (RT Watson/The Block)

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Tether reports Q2 net profit of $4.9B, a quarterly record, and says it held nearly $9B in bitcoin at the end of the quarter  —  - Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, said it registered a net profit of $4.9 billion, setting a new quarterly record.  The previous record was $4.5 billion, set in Q1 2024.

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Israel-based Noma Security, whose platform secures enterprise data and AI models against AI agents, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $132M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Steven Scheer / Reuters:
Israel-based Noma Security, whose platform secures enterprise data and AI models against AI agents, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $132M  —  Israeli cybersecurity startup Noma Security, whose platform secures enterprise data and AI models against AI agents …

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Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago  —  With $83 million raised in six months, the Turkish mobile game developer is emerging as a new force in global gaming.

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Fleet management software provider Motive raises $150M led by Kleiner Perkins; the company reportedly could go public by the end of 2025 (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)

Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
Fleet management software provider Motive raises $150M led by Kleiner Perkins; the company reportedly could go public by the end of 2025  —  Fleet tracking and driver safety startup Motive Technologies Inc. raised $150 million from a private funding round led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins …

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