TechCrunch
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Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One
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Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix
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Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
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Google Photos uses AI to make the iconic closet from ‘Clueless’ a reality
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More Gemini features are coming to Google TV
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Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government
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Roku’s $3 streaming service, Howdy, reaches 1M subs, per recent report
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Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI
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Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court
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Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals
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Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry
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Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field
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BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun
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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
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Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation
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Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp
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How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world
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At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
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Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
Techmeme
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Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est., net income up 81% to $62.58B (Alphabet)
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Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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eBay reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.09B, vs. $3.04B est., net income up 2% to $512M, GMV up 18% to $22.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
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AWS revenue rose 28% YoY in Q1 to $37.6B, vs. $36.64B est., its fastest growth in 15 quarters, as capital expenditure rose to $44.2B, up from $25B in Q1 2025 (Quartz)
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Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $10.6B and says a top hyperscaler is on track to begin using its chips later this year; QCOM jumps 7%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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Google has told employees in a memo that it "proudly" works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts (Financial Times)
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Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of $402M, vs. $488.8M est., and a $4.03B operating loss, vs. $4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Meta raises its 2026 capex to between $125B and $145B, exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting $115B to $135B; META drops 6%+ after hours (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.24B, vs. $16.87B est., and subscription services revenue up 15% to $13.43B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $82.9B, net income up 23% to $31.8B, and says its AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37B, up 123% (Microsoft)
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Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $181.5B, up 17% YoY, net income of $30.3B, up 77%, and operating income of $23.9B, up 30% YoY (Amazon)