Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $51.2B, vs. $49.4B est., net income down 83% YoY to $2.7B, and family DAP up 8% to 3.54B for September; META drops 12%+
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025.
Meta reports Reality Labs Q3 revenue of $470M, above $316M est., and a $4.4B operating loss, below $5.1B est.; Reality Labs has lost $70B+ since 2020
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Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple's legal case against the UK Home Office over an encryption backdoor, which “could set a dangerous precedent”
WhatsApp is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy, BBC News has learnt.
Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps
Ever since OpenAI announced a couple of days ago that it's integrating Jony Ive's hardware startup, I've been struggling with what to write about it.
Sources: Apple plans to relocate its secret robotics team from John Giannandrea's AI unit and place it under SVP John Ternus, who oversees hardware engineering
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On the Apple Watch's 10th anniversary, a look at how Apple reshaped the watch industry and ushered in a new age of fitness tracking
When the Apple Watch launched, it was unclear if smartwatches would pan out. Ten years later, Apple has a $100-billion hit that reshaped the watch industry …
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas
without reading them Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple details how it plans to improve its...
Email: Amazon says Echo users won't be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally, as new generative AI features need processing in the cloud
In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally …
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
Dell rebrands its PCs as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision
someone came to me with “I heard it is discontinued, can you help me choosing a new laptop?” — what actually happened: they saw in the news that Windows XP was being discontinued...
Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements
Apple (AAPL.O) has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely …
Apple's first chief people officer, Carol Surface, who joined in early 2023, is leaving; retail chief Deirdre O'Brien is reassuming oversight of human resources
https://mastodon.social/... X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : If it feels like there are a lot of senior exits right now, that's because there are: CFO moving to smaller role, plus Ap...
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango
switchover caught many users by surprise Ernestas Naprys / Cybernews.com : Kaspersky users shocked by automatic antivirus replacement without explicit permission Sofia Elizabella W...
Apple announces CFO Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025; Kevan Parekh, Apple's VP of Financial Planning and Analysis, will become CFO
could this bring changes for its future releases? Sheezan Naseer / International Business Times : Who is Kevan Parekh; Indian-origin exec appointed Apple's New CFO Abhijeet Kumar /...
Sources: Apple App Store VP Matt Fischer is leaving in October; the App Store group will split into two teams: for its own store and for alt app distribution
- Longtime App Store vice president Fischer to exit in October — Company makes changes in response to regulatory environment
Intel shares fall 26% to close at $21.48 in their biggest drop since 1974, after the company reported a big earnings miss; Intel's market cap is now below $100B
Intel shares plunged the most in 50 years on Friday, reaching a price not seen since 2013, after the chipmaker reported …
Reeling from CrowdStrike-related outages, Delta has canceled 5,000+ flights, including 1,384 on Sunday and 700+ for Monday so far, according to FlightAware
Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) struggled to restore normal operations on Sunday after last week's crippling global cyber outage …
Sources: Apple will get an observer role on OpenAI's board, with Phil Schiller chosen for the position, as part of their ChatGPT partnership announced in June
CDK Says ‘Substantially All’ Car Dealerships Restored After Hack — Northern Data May Be Testing Limits of AI Frenzy With Unit IPO
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple
The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence
Sources: the EU has determined that Apple's anti-steering rules for developers do not comply with the DMA, and plans charges against Apple in the coming weeks
Two things happened this week. Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) … Thomas Claburn / The Register : European Commission may be about to put the squeeze on Apple for its App Store rules Chance...