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Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/baid

The average temperature over the entire contiguous U.S. (CONUS) in March was 10.5°C, 5.2°C above average, ranking as the warmest March in the 132-year record.
This marks the first time any month's average temperature has exceeded 5°C above its 20th-century baseline.
https://www.ncei.noaa…

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Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/

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Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…

Floating static geometry bug IRL
(Looks around for matrix agents in suits and earpieces)

"‘A huge anomaly’: Antarctica records winter temperatures 20C warmer than normal"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

Record winter heat in Antarctica is worrying scientists
The new heat record comes amid a prolonged heatwave that has seen maximum daily temperatures above zero degrees for three consecutive weeks.

Surfing Ability Summit page at 200% with my keyboard (as one does) and came across this weird control.
Turns out it’s a roled-up button that launches Microsoft Immersive reader. Which is crap at 200%, it turns out.
Anyway, use native HTML buttons and let users rely on their browser’s reader mode.

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

The office last night. Rialto Square Theater, #Joliet, IL.
Built in 1926; surely one of the most beautiful buildings in America.
#chicago #LiveMusic

Had to get rid of some ants in the garden. My daughter was not pleased about this deathly maneuver but accepted it if we also set up grave stones for the ant’s memorial!
So if you need some crafts gravestones you know where to look for!
#RIP Ants

SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-stock-rally-market-cap.html

My jar of goodies — Observe, reflect, engage
https://jar.tiddlyhost.com/#2026-04-17-Fri
The verb “calls” in the verse above is a present active participle. His call, made initially at conversion, still is active. But the emphasis is on the Caller, more than the time of…

Too high concentrations of PFAS 'forever chemicals' found in all waterways and lakes of the Dutch rural province of Friesland, often a factor of 1 to 10 above the legal limit, and sometimes worse than that. Water management board asks for a complete ban. https://nos.nl/l/2619066

PFAS in alle Friese wateren aangetroffen, waterschap wil verbod
Het Friese waterschap bracht als eerste op provinciaal niveau in beeld waar PFAS in wateren zat.

The Honest Button
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says "Wait!" when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. No wire runs from the button to the signal timer. The LED is connected only to the button itself, and it does the single job of telling the pedestrian to wait.

The Honest Button | David Boles, Blogs
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says “Wait!” when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. …

Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France,
sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.
One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing”
and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsula
Last week saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C
which is more than 20C above average.

Climate Defenders Warn GOP Immunity Bill Puts 'Big Oil Above the Law' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-immunity-bill

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Remember what I said about flower naming conventions? Well this one is called "Sunrise Dynasty".
#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips

Question: I'm designing the board game version of my digital game. I have two levels in the digital game: the ground where the spider walks along, and just above where the fly, flies.
The fly isn't in the sky, though. I can't call it sky because it is at human-level and players assume sky means above all our heads.
What do you think I could call this area above the ground?

First try propagating plants from cuttings. The little ones with 1 or 2 leaves are coyote mint cuttings

"Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Travelers Along Norway’s Busy Coast"
#Norway #Boats

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s coast will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water from Candela.

Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160, raising at least $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B fully diluted (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/cerebras-prices-ipo-above…

Cerebras prices IPO above expected range, as Wall Street braces for AI tsunami
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in its IPO, and with the chipmaker's offering, investors are gearing up for some even bigger AI deals later this year.

I got quite a few photos Tuesday for which I didn't give somebody a token but I am prioritizing portraits for processing since I know people are waiting for them; here is a wide angle of the four season garden in the ILR courtyard with a class discussing outdoors
#photo #photography

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

Celestial exclamation mark :)

Somewhat shaky proof that the skies above over the International #DarkSky Community MŸn and Nyord - https://darksky.org/places/mon-and-nyord-dark-sky-community/ - are good indeed: out of cam vertical 60 seconds f/2.8 shot at ISO 1600 (camera lying on an unstable table) from a place between Elmelunde and NŸrreby, still no sky background appearing. The SQM reading in the zenith was consistently 21.7 mag./sq.arcsec.

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Amazing image from Artemis II

I went out into the wood to try to assess what dangerously unstable trees still standing in places where they could cause damage when they fall.
Needless to say, besides the two trees that have already collapsed above the house, there's at least one and possibly two unstable trees hanging over the house.
H'mmm...
#TheJoyOfCrofting

#acousticmusic #americana #mandolin #guitar

Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
#ClimateCrisis

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I grew up in Southern California - so the concept of continuously free flowing fresh water all year was a thing of hard-to-believe imagination.
All these decades later, now that I live in the mountains around the Monterey Bay, I look with daily amazement at at the ever-running stream that runs past my garden.
I kinda wonder whether climate change will cause my stream to dry up or become larger.
I'm glad my house is roughly 40 to 60 feet above (and well back from) the cr…

"Scientists said the high of 15.4 °C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2 °C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20 °C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
(Degree symbols added for clarity.)

Well, no, there are people on the list above brand strategists...
#AI #LLM

Eugene Healey on Instagram: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces."
3,896 likes, 102 comments - eugbrandstrat on April 13, 2026: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces.".

Still thinking about those delicious Steak Frites at Little Bad Wolf in Andersonville from over a month ago - highly recommended #Chicago

this came to me in a dream and i thought it was the funniest shit ever
@… #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

This front page, above-the-fold article about Hany Farid is a good read. I know him ever so slightly from when our paths crossed in steganography research 25 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

I ended up in a lot of photos over the past week. I think this is my favorite.
#Memphis #Tennessee #redistricting

A physical tool bar 😉
From the 2024 XOXO talk by @… about the artist Wes Cook.
https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

Another addition to the space battle that is being fought above my head: the #StarWars #YWing my favorite ship from the saga. #3Dprinting with a Prusa i3 Mk3s,

Maui, looking north from SE coast
Haleakala peeking above the clouds, Molokini in the foreground.

Ende Mai 2026 wurden im #Atlantik und im #Mittelmeer deutlich erhöhte #Meeresoberflächentemperaturen gemessen.
Daten des

Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average sea surface temperatures.

After quinoa’s boom, Bolivian farmers face degraded soils and climate stress
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/after-quinoas-boom-bolivian-farmers-face-degraded-soils-and-climate-stress/

After quinoa’s boom, Bolivian farmers face degraded soils and climate stress
AROMA MARKA, Bolivia — The rolling hills around the town of Aroma Marka are a cacophony of colors: golden-yellow, deep-red and purplish-black quinoa pods smatter the otherwise barren landscape here in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, the Andean Plateau. At 3,800 meters (about 12,500 feet) above sea level, the Altiplano stretches across much of western Bolivia and […]

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Mossy, rainforesty oaks above Loch Tay #Scotland

0°C line has dropped to 1100m above sea level. I see white summits around 🤯🥶
I'm so glad that I was cycling and hiking last weekend!

Trying to argue with car-brained people...
One says that since everyone drives above the posted speed limit that it's the speed limit signs that are wrong, and the drivers are right!
sigh...

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Is this article too praiseful (at least the part I can see above the paywall)? Well…
When I complain about executive types at Target, CBS, Google, Apple, etc. who rolled over and played dead the instant fascism farted in their general direction…it’s not like I’m expecting them to form the New French Resistance or something. I’m just expecting them to respond to wildly inappropriate power grabs with modest but firm refusal. That’s it. And that’s what Powell did.
So I say yeah, go ahead and lionize him for 15 min, even if just to shame Tim Cook.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-jerome-powell-fed-legacy/

Is that a JoJ- Souls reference?
#games #Dishonored2 #DeathOfTheOutsider

This afternoon, fulfilling a Mother’s Day request a day early, the family hiked the Cascades in Pembroke, VA. The trail transits up Little Stony Creek to this fantastic set of falls. We had the fortunate timing of being there not long after heavy rains. Perfect weather for it too.
#hiking #waterfall

:neocat_knife:

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/tsmc-q1-profit-58-percent-ai-chip-demand-reco…

TSMC first-quarter profit rises 58%, beats estimates as AI demand fuels record run
TSMC reported another quarter of record profit, with the company expecting AI demand to continue to grow.

@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.

lmao!
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AltText: A NYTimes-style headline in the usual NY Times font. The headline reads : "You Were In For a Dipshit Take As Soon As You Saw This Font." Above i…

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The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.

#silentSunday

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fleet-of-flying-ferries-will-provide-zero-emissio…

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s coast will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water from Candela.

May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

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"Egypt installs 800 MW of solar in 2025"
#Egypt #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Egypt installs 800 MW of solar in 2025
Latest analysis from GlobalData expects Egypt’s annual solar additions to reach above 2 GW over the next three years, increasing to above 3.5 GW from 2029 onwards. Cumulative capacity is expected to grow from around 2.9 GW at the end of 2025 to 34.3 GW by the end of 2035.

SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (Deedy/@deedydas)
https://x.com/deedydas/status/2055491938464489888

Deedy (@deedydas) on X
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope

This will get better when the rack kit for the SPD3303X-E comes in but for now it's just sitting on a shelf.
Now I have a DUMPTRUCK plus the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board all wired up with power, jtag, annd serial console for remote firmware/gateware dev work.
Free bench space, coming soon (slowly)

The White House is forcing countries to choose between opening up a potentially unbridgeable rift
or playing down the climate crisis and trying to squeeze in green priorities by the back door.
Last autumn, the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, demanded the removal of some climate finance targets from the World Bank’s aims
and insisted it must “finance all affordable and reliable sources of energy … [with] an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes financing fo…

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown.
Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”

It looks like Hungary has a long road ahead: Orbšn will almost certainly fight the results and try to throw things into chaos, his party’s tentacles still run wide and deep throughout Hungarian institutions, getting Putinism out of the dark corners of power there will be like ending a bedbug infestation, and Orbšn’s likely replacement…um, well, he doesn’t seem like the greatest guy on earth.
EDIT: My first prediction above was wrong! I hope my others are too.
1/

"Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Antarctic

What Lies Beneath (2025)
As much as it hurts to witness glaciers disappearing more every year, the colors, textures and exposed geological features are some of the things I absolutely cherish each time I find myself in their vicinity...
These are truly unique landscapes to meditate on the age, scale & forces which have been shaping this planet, the environments they've created, directly and indirectly, the fragility of life trying to thrive in them, even if only temporarily, …

#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #red

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

Solid ash by the remains of a drystone wall, above Stirling, #Scotland.
Seen a lot, will it see off ash dieback? It might well.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $333.4M, vs. $313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/figma-r

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

ICE Wants To Hand Out Its Unproven Facial Recognition Tech To Thousands Of Cops - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/ice-wants-to-hand-out-its-unproven-facial-recognition-tech-to-thousands-of-cops/

Tech jobs are highly cyclical and lots of the gen AI stuff is ridiculously overhyped, and I’m hopeful that the wheel will keep turning and the professional prospects of software developers will improve again…assuming human civilization survives, that is.
But what I said above applies regardless. We should all be doing this meaning-making work all the time, even in the best job markets. In fact, that work is a part of •making• human civilization survive.

Aviation / flight sim geeks: There's plenty of flight sims focused on fixed wing airline flying, combat, etc.
But are there any for more technical / specialized operations? I'm picturing "DCS for wildland firefighting and SAR" where you get to pilot a rotary or fixed wing water attack aircraft, land on a lake to refill then dump it on the flank of a fire, hover above a rocking ship to lower a rescue swimmer to it (maybe the latter being a team game with NPC or players…

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Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M profit, up from a $99M loss YoY (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/klar…

"France, Spain set solar records in May"
#France #Spain #SolarPower #Energy

France, Spain set solar records in May
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting’s latest analysis finds the weekly average electricity price was above €100 ($117.45)/MWh in most major European markets last week, bar the Portuguese, French and Spanish markets. 

Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, vs. $15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/cisco-csco-q3-earnings-report-2026.html

Cisco's stock pops 14% on surging AI orders, as company says it's cutting almost 4,000 jobs
Cisco's AI story has finally started resonating with Wall Street, with the stock hitting a record late last year and continuing to rally in 2026.

Can somebody help me figure out this switch? I can't find the right rack ears online and it didn't come with any, but I wanted to rack it above the current core switch.
And I can't figure out how to get this optic in.

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…

Microsoft reveals major price increases for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues: Flagships now $500 more expensive than at launch
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.

SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/85b9fe04-0d70-482e-bd27-9c87c1ebfc01

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…

DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11% after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Sea reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $7.1B and net income up 6% YoY to $428M, both above est., after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's e-commerce market (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-forec

STMicro reports Q1 revenue of $3.10B, above $3.04B est., $171M operating income, above $165.8 est., and forecasts $3.45B revenue for Q2, above $3.21B est. (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/stmicroelectronics-repor…

Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-tcs-beats-fourth-quarter-revenue-v…

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above est., suggesting global chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…

Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/ap…

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/black-forest-labs-ai-image-generation/

The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.

Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 17% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/twilio-stock-twlo-twilio-earni…

Twilio Stock Pops On Q1 Earnings Beat, Strong Guidance
Twilio stock popped on Q1 earnings and revenue that topped estimates while June quarter sales guidance came in above views.

Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B, vs. $3.25B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; WDC drops 7% after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/western-digital-f…

Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-anonymous…

Alibaba Anonymously Launches New AI Video Model
Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1.0, which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard and attracted a lot of attention on social media, according to two people with knowledge of Alibaba’s involvement. The new video model is the Chinese tech giant’s latest effort to step up its fight against its major rival ByteDance in all areas of AI,

Sony reports Q4 revenue of $19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., operating profit of ~$1.06B, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit to rise 13% to ~$7.4B (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/sony-q4-earnings-ps5-gaming-sales-memory-…

Sony targets double-digit profit growth despite slowdown in PlayStation 5 sales amid memory price crunch
While hardware sales took a hit in Sony's fourth-quarter, strong revenue from its image sensing and music businesses offset the dip.