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Apple's services revenue missed Wall Street estimates at $30.74B vs $31.22B expected in its fiscal Q3, despite hitting 1.5 billion subscribers (up from 1 billion in January 2025). CFO Kevan Parekh attributed the shortfall partly to App Store business model changes in the U.S. — a court order now lets developers process payments outside Apple's commission — plus a mobile gaming slowdown and FX headwinds. Apple's stock fell over 4% in after-hours trading.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said the forced unwind of Situational Awareness shows how borrowing money can quickly magnify losses and trigger forced selling.

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Microsoft posted strong Azure and Copilot growth, while Meta missed revenue guidance forecasts as free cash flow plunged leading to diverging stock moves.

Reddit reported second-quarter earnings that beat on the top and the bottom, and gave a revenue forecast that topped estimates.

Tim Cook held his final Apple Q3 2026 earnings call, reporting strong iPhone sales but flagging rising memory costs as a concern. The article text itself was not captured—only cookie consent boilerplate is present, so substantive details beyond the headline are unavailable.

Morgan Stanley is in advanced talks to lend $15B to Nexus Data Centers to build a large AI infrastructure campus in Hubbard, Texas for Anthropic. Google has agreed to backstop Anthropic with its investment-grade credit rating as part of the deal, signaling a new financing structure for AI compute buildouts.

AWS sales expanded 37% year over year, which trounced analysts' expectations for 31% growth.

A maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange server is reportedly under active exploitation by Kremlin-linked hackers to backdoor unpatched networks. The article body was not captured—only cookie consent boilerplate was retrieved—so technical details such as CVE number, affected versions, patch availability, and attack specifics are missing from the provided text.

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Satellite imagery reportedly confirms new Iranian strikes damaging Amazon data centers and a Saudi oil facility amid an escalating regional conflict. The article content itself was not captured—only the title and cookie consent boilerplate are available, so details on extent, specific AWS regions, or service impact are missing.

AWS grew nearly 37% in Q2 2026 to $42.23B, beating analyst estimates of $40.54B and marking its fastest expansion since 2021. AWS's AI business and its custom chips each surpassed $25B in annualized revenue, more than doubling year-over-year, while Azure grew 43% and Google Cloud surged 82% to nearly $25B for the quarter.

AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come

A U.S. federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a 'supply-chain risk' and banning federal use of its AI. The dispute stems from stalled DOD contract negotiations where Anthropic refused to allow its models to be used for mass surveillance or lethal targeting decisions, and the Pentagon argued a private company shouldn't dictate military use terms. Judge Rita Lin called the government's argument that Anthropic's public criticism justifies the ban 'really troubling' and said she saw no proof Anthropic could alter a delivered model or 'flip some kind of kill switch.'

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

Ars Technica reports that physical game discs increasingly ship incomplete, requiring mandatory downloads to be playable, which undermines the long-term preservation promise of physical media. The article text itself was not captured—only the site's cookie consent boilerplate is present.

Strong earnings from Lam Research, Microsoft and Arm boosted hard-hit semiconductor stocks.

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

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As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

The future of AI may be dictated not by who builds the smartest model, but who builds the models everyone runs on. Right now, that's China.

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Oracle is adding Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash models to its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, alongside existing Cohere and Meta model options. The integration also covers embedded AI use cases in Oracle Fusion Applications and NetSuite. Gartner VP Balaji Abbabatulla cautioned that the technology 'doesn't necessarily look as glittery as it sounds' and raised unresolved questions about accountability when AI agents make bad decisions at scale.

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.