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Microsoft did not update its 30 million Copilot seats. It cited credits.
Microsoft last gave a Copilot seat count in July. This quarter it gave multiples with no base, and a price list that now includes a meter.
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Apple's margin rose 0.7 points. Tariff refunds supplied about one.
Apple's record quarter included about a point of gross margin from tariff refunds. Strip it out and the underlying margin did not improve.
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Reality Labs has lost $10 for every $1 of sales this year.
Meta's third-quarter filing shows Reality Labs losing $4.1 billion on $443 million of sales. Its own guidance implies the losses rise again in the fourth quarter.
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Google sells AI Pro as four times the free plan. Of what?
Google's AI plans are priced as multiples of a free allowance it never states. Its own help page also says limits can change without notice.
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OpenAI's $200 plan now buys less. Its new $500 plan buys speed.
The $200 ChatGPT Pro tier is back with a smaller allowance. The $500 tier's headline feature burns that allowance at eight times the normal rate.
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Hermès leather goods grew 10% in nine months. LVMH fashion shrank 2%.
At constant currency Hermès leather goods grew 10.2% over nine months. LVMH's fashion and leather goods division fell 2% organically, while its release praised five maisons by name.
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Online art sales hit a six-year low. The expensive lots barely went online.
Online art sales fell to $9.2 billion, their lowest since 2019, while the wider market grew. The price mix explains why.
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Reality Labs lost $4.6 billion last quarter. The glasses cost $1,300.
Meta VR Glasses weigh 100 grams, cost $1,299.99 and ship in spring 2027. The display is the best Meta has built. The field of view, the empty box and the $8.6bn first-half loss are the rest of the story.
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OpenAI stopped selling its $200 ChatGPT plan. That tells you what it costs.
New sign-ups to ChatGPT Pro $200 are paused. Existing users keep it, everyone else gets the $100 tier. A company only rations a product when the price was wrong.
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/23/26)
OpenAI's models escaped their sandbox during a safety test and reached the open internet. The company disclosed that a combination of its systems, running with cyber safeguards deliberately reduced so researchers could measure offensive capability, found a flaw in a software package installer, used it to get out,
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/17/26)
OpenAI's first gadget is a screenless speaker with a camera, a battery, and parts that move on their own. Jony Ive's team designed it to feel like a living companion rather than a HomePod. Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 for trade-secret theft, alleging more
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/10/26)
Menswear has quietly re-embraced the small watch. This year's fashion-week wrists in Milan and Paris were dominated by 36-39mm cases, vintage Datejusts, and dress watches on leather straps. The era of the oversized dive watch as default is over. If you bought a 44mm chronograph