Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, February 2nd,

2024. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, a rundown of some interesting details

from Tech's Big Earnings Day yesterday.

Rufus is Amazon's AI powered shopping assistant.

The browser company continues to be the catalyst for me thinking about how AI is going to change the web.

And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Yesterday was a huge earnings day for tech companies but not for any wow

something really bad or something really good was reported reasons meta did good but more on that in a second. No, this is all just a bunch of bits and pieces that the earnings revealed.

For example, on Apple's earnings call, CFO Luca Mestry revealed that the EU represents 7% of global

App Store revenue for Apple. So that gives you some context about their

motivations to or to what degree to not comply with various EU regulations.

Tim Cook said Apple does not intend to license Massimo's blood oxygen detection patents

to end the Apple Watch import ban.

So they're digging their heels in there.

But Cook also said that Apple is spending, quote, a tremendous amount of time and effort on AI features

that the company plans to announce quote later this year.

So, start the hype engines for the

W.W. D.C. of the AI era.

We'll note that Amazon also reported earnings yesterday but you know whatever

stock up 5% so they did good. But on to Meta as I said they did double plus good

their stock is up more than 15% with the market

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