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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $119.8B, above $116.9B est., Google Cloud revenue up 82% YoY to $24.8B, and Services revenues up 15% to $94.5B

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Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $11.06B, vs. $10.8B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $81.63B, up from $71.34B in Q2 2025

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman says Kimi K3 is a “pretty good model” but it is “too early” to tell whether Moonshot used distillation on OpenAI's models

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Source: Stripe revenue jumped by a third to $6.8B in 2025, its fastest revenue growth since 2021, with free cash flow up 52% to $3.2B

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