Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY, Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption

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Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours. - Link

Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools. - Link

Tim Cook says half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units. - Link

Snap announces Snapchat users can edit messages within five minutes of sending them, “coming soon” to Snapchat+ subscribers “first”, map reactions, and more. - Link

Some developers are releasing versions of Llama 3, which has a context window of 8K+ tokens, with longer context windows, thanks to Meta's open-source approach. - Link

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