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Its pretty amazing to see. Revolut ads are starting to take over an airport near you. These positions used to be controlled by HSBC, but it really does feel like the world is changing in banking – and we are finally getting a good product.
Google’s net income over time is a thing of beauty. Over $115 billion in the past 12 months, the most of any company.
Sundar Pichai deserves more credit!
Have you ever looked at your pizza oven and wished it was just a little bit smarter? Ooni has, and so its new Volt 2 comes loaded with “Pizza Intelligence,” an adaptive heating system designed to deliver a more even and consistent cooking temperature.
Why does everything need to have the AI buzz word attached to it at the moment. An AI Pizza Oven – just sounds stupid.
It would be great if you could just put in the pizza and its cooks to the perfect temperature automatically, without having to program it at all.
There is a lot of talk about the specs of the new versions in the Apple Watch series – and here is what we know so far before the next Apple event. Full specs on Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.
The next Apple event is getting closer and here is what to expect when they launch the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air.
Which one of these iPhone 17 versions will you be looking to get?
Anthropic is launching a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models, the company announced on Tuesday. Claude for Chrome is initially rolling out to 1,000 subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan (priced at $100-$200 monthly). The company has also opened a waitlist for other interested users.
With this Chrome extension, selected users can chat with Claude in a sidebar that maintains awareness of everything happening in their browser. Users can also authorise Claude to perform actions in their browser and complete tasks on their behalf.
Marshall just introduced its very first party speaker, the Bromley 750. The speaker resembles a guitar amp, which aligns perfectly with the company’s heritage. After all, instrument amps are essentially powerful speakers in their own right.
This Bluetooth speaker features a replaceable battery delivering over 40 hours of playback on a single charge. It produces 360-degree stereophonic sound that Marshall claims will “find its way through any crowd.” Additionally, it includes a “sound character knob” for adjusting tone from clear (ideal for indoor use) to punchy (better for outdoor settings).
WeBull is launching their crypto trading service in Australia – just after they re-opened the service in the US.
With companies like eToro – now making the majority of their revenues via crypto trading – it feels like this is going to be an easy revenue driver for WeBull.
via – Cointelegraph
It all depends on where you buy the Xiaomi stock.
TikTok’s UK subsidiary has published its latest financial results covering operations in Europe, the UK, Latin America and Africa. The report shows revenue growth of 38% to $6.31bn in 2024, while the company significantly reduced its operating losses from $1.37bn in 2023 to $484.6m last year.
Filed with Companies House in the UK, these results primarily address financial performance rather than user statistics. However, earlier this year TikTok separately disclosed user numbers for the European Union. The platform reached 159 million monthly active users across the EU by the end of 2024, with its largest markets being France (25.1 million), Germany (24.2 million), Italy (22.8 million) and Spain (21.9 million).
Revolut has achieved a remarkable milestone: it is now the largest bank in Lithuania by assets, just five years after securing its license there. According to the central bank, Revolut now commands 30.8% of the Lithuanian market, overtaking long-time leaders Swedbank (24.4%), SEB (19.6%), Luminor (10.5%) and the recently rebranded Artea (6.6%).
Licensed in Lithuania but serving 50 million customers across 30 EEA countries, Revolut has rapidly grown its local footprint with more than 650,000 Lithuanian clients. In 2024 alone, retail customers grew 24%, business clients 57%, and youth accounts 47%. This year, Revolut also entered the housing loan market, further cementing its presence alongside its full suite of digital banking, credit, investment, and savings products.
While others are trying to take legal action against Midjourney – Meta is partnering with them for AI image and video creation.
The Midjourney partnership could help Meta develop products that compete with industry-leading AI image and video models, such as OpenAI’s Sora, Black Forest Lab’s Flux, and Google’s Veo. Last year, Meta rolled out its own AI image generation tool, Imagine, into several of its products, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Meta also has an AI video generation tool, Movie Gen, that allows users to create videos from prompts.
via – Techcrunch
David Vélez, Nubank’s CEO and co-founder, just sold 33 million Class A shares (around 0.7% of the company’s total shares) through Rua California Ltd. He said it was for personal asset planning—about 3.5% of his stake.
Amazon has a chance of becoming the first company ever to reach $1 trillion in revenues. I think it is coming! (but still have to wait a few years)
Salesforce has announced that they will be acquiring Regrello to help drive their AI Agentic agenda.
The press release from Salesforce providing very limited information on the deal (so if someone at Saleforce reads this – let me know the details 😉 )
via Reuters.
Alphabet’s revenues are become more diverse over time – and quickly!
Google Search revenues now make up only 56.1% of their total revenues and the gap is getting smaller every quarter.
Google Cloud is driving growth in the other areas, but YouTube is also climbing fast as well as other subscriptions and devices (and lets not even talk about Waymo and its potential).
Nvidia earnings are reported next week. It will be very interesting to see how this chart continues to move over the coming quarters and years. I think it is all going higher, but I think we are starting to see a little bit of a slower growth, which hopefully will allow them some breathing space to stabilise a few things.
The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months.