Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware — Apple's latest quarterly results were about as boring as you can get while still featuring $21.4 billion in profit and setting an all-time third-quarter record.
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Sunday, August 4, 2024
Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
Saturday, August 3, 2024
A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once — The creator of Halo and Destiny laid off more than 200 people this week including several top executives — Hi everyone.
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B (Eric Platt/Financial Times)
Eric Platt / Financial Times:
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B — Cash holdings hit a record high as billionaire investor dumps $76bn of stocks — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed …
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes — Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence
How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously — A stunt got White House officials to take technological advances in weaponizing disease seriously. — Rocco Casagrande entered …
Friday, August 2, 2024
An Indian tribunal orders a halt on insolvency proceedings against Byju's, days after Byju's settled a $19M payments dispute case with the Indian cricket board (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters:
An Indian tribunal orders a halt on insolvency proceedings against Byju's, days after Byju's settled a $19M payments dispute case with the Indian cricket board — India's appeals tribunal on Friday ordered a halt on insolvency proceedings against embattled education startup Byju's …
A profile of, and interview with, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, who is building a reputation in Washington, DC, as a trusted expert on AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
A profile of, and interview with, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, who is building a reputation in Washington, DC, as a trusted expert on AI — Helen Toner is building a reputation in the nation's capital as a trusted expert on artificial intelligence.
Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds — Not all that long ago, it used to be hard, really hard to generate 3D images. It was a process that involved complex wireframes, complicated software and beefy hardware.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes — Byju's, Paytm falter in stark reminder of the unique risks and challenges facing the country's tech economy.
Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find new apps, updates the in-app browser to support multiple tabs, and says its mini apps have 500M MAUs (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find new apps, updates the in-app browser to support multiple tabs, and says its mini apps have 500M MAUs — Telegram is refining the in-app expereince, adding a new way to interact with the browser and a Mini App Store for native applications.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
How US safeguards on the Microsoft-G42 deal, aiming to protect critical data center and AI infrastructure, could shape future international data center projects (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
Chris Miller / Financial Times:
How US safeguards on the Microsoft-G42 deal, aiming to protect critical data center and AI infrastructure, could shape future international data center projects — Security hawks in Washington worry that infrastructure deals risk the future of AI — If artificial intelligence systems transform …
An airline industry group executive says India doubled the use of digital biometric systems in airports to 28 in June, covering ~90% of sky-bound travel volumes (Chris Kay/Financial Times)
Chris Kay / Financial Times:
An airline industry group executive says India doubled the use of digital biometric systems in airports to 28 in June, covering ~90% of sky-bound travel volumes — Digital initiative chief claims technology can halve queueing times and pledges transparency on personal data
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Faye, which offers travel insurance and fintech services via a single smartphone app, raised a $31M Series B led by Portage; Faye raised a $10M Series A in 2023 (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Faye, which offers travel insurance and fintech services via a single smartphone app, raised a $31M Series B led by Portage; Faye raised a $10M Series A in 2023 — We've been covering US-based Insurtech startup FAYE way back since 2022 with its Seed round, and the Series A round in 2023 …
Flipkart consolidates its various fintech offerings, including UPI and BNPL, under Flipkart Pay; the move follows recent expansions and a spinoff of PhonePe (The Economic Times)
The Economic Times:
Flipkart consolidates its various fintech offerings, including UPI and BNPL, under Flipkart Pay; the move follows recent expansions and a spinoff of PhonePe — Flipkart has integrated its various fintech services into a single vertical named ‘Flipkart Pay’.
Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category — Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2. The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users …
A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disne...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...