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Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)

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Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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D&D sci-fi book trilogy Neon Odyssey raises $3.7 million in hours on Kickstarter

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Xbox CEO cancels console AI chatbot Copilot on consoles

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Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the "revenue backlog" Google disclosed last week (The Information)

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Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a "personalized" Siri in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

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AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, vs. $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours (Reuters)

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Target workers are fighting Pokémon scalpers over the displays now

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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era factions list

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Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

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Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27

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Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

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Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying "he knows rockets, he knows electric cars" but "does not know AI" (Bloomberg)

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Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Ravnica changed Magic: The Gathering forever 20 years ago

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Hokum director Damian McCarthy reveals how he's remake his first movie today

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Outfits and how to unlock them in Pokémon Pokopia

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