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"We have an incredible roadmap ahead…suffice it to say this is the most exciting time in my career at Apple to be building products and services," Ternus said.

Reddit also published its quarterly results on Thursday.

The platform, which hosts online forums and topical chat groups, said its revenue hit $663bn for the quarter, a jump of 69%.

During a call with financial analysts, Reddit's chief executive Ladd Huffman, noted that 200 million people in the US, more than half of the country's population, visits Reddit every week.

The goal, however, is to get that many people in the US visiting the site every day. Reddit also aims to see one billion people around the world on the site each day.

"So [daily active users] is both our mission and also fuel for the business," Huffman said.

Reddit has also become a key source of training data for AI companies that "scrape" or harvest material from internet pages so that the data can help train AI chatbots and tools.

Huffman said Reddit's current deals with OpenAI and Google, charging them to use conversations on Reddit for their AI models, is valuable. But he said venues like Reddit, where people converse on a range of topics would become even more important, the more the rest of the internet became "optimised for AI".

"At the end of the day, there is no artificial intelligence without actual intelligence," Huffman said.

Roblox, the online gaming platform popular with young people, saw its shares fall 20% in after hours stock trading following its quarterly results.

The company said that its user base and revenue grew significantly over the last three months.

However, in a letter to investors, chief executive David Baszucki, noted that user growth was not as high as expected after Roblox implemented stricter checks of user age on the platform.

"We believe growth was tempered by greater-than-expected headwinds from our age-check roll out, which restricted on-platform communication for non-age checked users, diluted communication for age-checked users, and slowed new user acquisition," Baszucki said.

Investors also reacted poorly to the company saying it expected to make less money this year than it initially planned.

Roblox has yet to notch a profitable quarter, despite being a publicly traded company since 2021.