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Amplitude rises after Q2 sales, guidance exceed expectations

Digital analytics company Amplitude beat analyst expectations on the top line in the second quarter.

The firm posted adjusted earnings per share of $0.01, in line with estimates, on better-than-expected revenues of $83.3 million.

Analysts polled by Bloomberg called for sales of $81.3 million.

Shares were up 2% in after-hours trading.

Q2 was a strong quarter. We delivered the highest net-new ARR in nearly three years and saw record multi-product adoption, CEO and cofounder Spenser Skates said in the earnings release.

Customers with more than $100,000 in annual recurring revenue grew to 634, up 16% year over year.

For Q3, Amplitude forecast adjusted EPS of between $0 and $0.02 and revenue ranging from $85 million to $87 million.

Wall Street’s consensus for Q3: adjusted EPS of $0.03 and revenue of $83.2 million.

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Amazon closes at all-time high

Fresh off strong earnings Thursday, Amazon saw its stock price end the week at a record closing high of $244.22.

The stock is up 10% so far this year.

The e-commerce and cloud giant beat analysts’ revenue and earnings, and its massive gain was responsible for more than all of the positive return delivered by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF on Friday.

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Rani Molla

Google uses an AI-generated ad to sell AI search

Google is using AI video to tell consumers about its AI search tools, with a Veo 3-generated advertisement that will begin airing on TV today. In it, a cartoonish turkey uses Google’s AI Mode to plan a vacation from its farm before it’s eaten for Thanksgiving.

Like other AI ad campaigns that have opted to depict yetis or famous artworks rather than humans, Google chose a turkey as its protagonist to avoid the uncanny valley pitfall that happens when AI is used to generate human likenesses.

Google’s in-house marketing group, Google Creative Lab, developed the idea for the ad — not Google’s AI — but chose not to prominently label the ad as AI, telling The Wall Street Journal that consumers don’t actually care how the ad was made.

Google’s in-house marketing group, Google Creative Lab, developed the idea for the ad — not Google’s AI — but chose not to prominently label the ad as AI, telling The Wall Street Journal that consumers don’t actually care how the ad was made.

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Rani Molla

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft combined spent nearly $100 billion on capex last quarter

The numbers are in and tech giants Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft spent a whopping $97 billion last quarter on purchases of property and equipment. That’s nearly double what it was a year earlier as AI infrastructure costs continue to balloon and show no sign of stopping. Amazon, which reported earnings and capital expenditure spending that beat analysts’ expectations yesterday, continued to lead the pack, spending more than $35 billion on capex in the quarter that ended in September.

Note that the data we’re using here is from FactSet, which strips out finance leases when calculating capital expenditures. If those expenses were included the total would be well over $100 billion last quarter.

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