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April 26, 2023, 5:20 PM

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The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing competition and innovation concerns in the UK cloud gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal  —  The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …
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Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $28.6B, net income down 24% YoY to $5.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.02B for March 2023; META is up 9%+  —  “We had a good quarter and our community continues to grow,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta's Reality Labs division reports Q1 revenue of $339M, down from $695M YoY, and operating loss of $3.99B, up from a $2.96B loss YoY  —  - Meta's Reality Labs unit had a $TK billion operating loss in the first quarter, after losing $13.72 billion last calendar year.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Amazon shuts down its health-focused Halo division, discontinues its Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices, and plans to lay off portions of the team  —  Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned.  Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products …
Brian Fung / CNN:
US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teens' accounts  —  A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies …
New York Times:
A look at the mounting US legal pressure on Binance: the DOJ's money laundering division leading a criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more  —  The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg:
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to invest $1B in generative AI over the next three years, working with Microsoft and OpenAI to automate some of its US operations  —  Multiyear investment in U.S. business includes accessing ChatGPT maker OpenAI's language model, training staff in AI capabilities
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Lenovo announces the $699 Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola, with ThinkPad-compatible productivity features, available to enterprises now and unlocked on April 28  —  The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is available in the US starting today for $699, offering a suite of productivity features designed to work with ThinkPad laptops.
Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World:
A look at the crypto hype waning in Africa, as consumer trust fades, regulators push back, startups shutter, and Web3 workers reconsider their careers after FTX  —  Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices.  —  • LAGOS, NIGERIA
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union; Alphabet is appealing a ruling that Google is their joint employer  —  The majority of a group of YouTube contract staff in Texas have voted to unionize in a labor victory that could force parent company Alphabet Inc …
Madeline Ashby / Wired:
How Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a fair use case before SCOTUS, could impact how copyright law is applied to what AI tools can do with human-made works  —  The US Supreme Court's upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.

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