Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass is profitable and accounts for ~15% of Xbox content and services revenue, after revealing PC Game Pass subscriptions rose 159% YoY (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI, which raised billions in VC funding, is shutting down; top backers Ford and VW will absorb its parts and some staff (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

iPad Pro (2022) review: M2 runs GPU-intensive tasks well and Pencil hover is nice, but the upgrade is incremental and the front camera remains on the wrong side (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk's Twitter bio reads "Chief Twit", as he visits the company's San Francisco office; memo to employees: "you'll all hear directly from him on Friday" (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users, up from a reported $200M to $300M in ARR and 28M active users when Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:00 Rating: 5

Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 24% YoY to $25.7B, including $20.3B from Intelligent Cloud, up 20% YoY, driven by Azure and other cloud services, up 35% YoY (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Alphabet reports Google ad sales of $54.5B in Q3, up from $53.1B YoY, missing estimates of $56.6B, and Google Search revenue of $39.5B, up from $37.9B YoY (Jon Swartz/MarketWatch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Microsoft reports Q1 Windows OEM revenue down 15% YoY, devices revenue up 2% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue up 13%, and Xbox content and services revenue down 3% (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Internal research: Twitter has been losing "heavy tweeters", who tweet more than three times a week, since the pandemic began, despite overall growth in DAUs (Sheila Dang/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:45 Rating: 5

China's path to chip self-sufficiency is extremely complicated and relies upon re-creating multiple supply chain components without outside help (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5