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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023  —  The move means Apple has six months to make sure its tablet ecosystem complies with a raft of preemptive measures under the EU's flagship Digital Markets Act.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data to aggregators “without customer consent”  —  The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles  —  Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models
Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg:
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam  —  The Manor Lords video game released this weekend by a small independent studio in Poland has sold more than a million copies …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
GitHub announces Copilot Workspace, a dev environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help devs brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language  —  Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE?  GitHub's floating the idea.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS rejects Elon Musk's appeal to overturn an SEC agreement from 2018 to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his X posts about Tesla, without giving a reason  —  - Justices turn away free speech arguments without comment  — Musk accord requires lawyer pre-approval of his Tesla posts
Bloomberg:
Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full Self-Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit  —  - Carmaker to partner with tech giant Baidu on maps, navigation  — Musk sought clearance from Beijing for potential revenue boost
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese officials told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software feature in the country
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared
Philip Lagerkranser / Bloomberg:
Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo  —  - Funds to be used for roll-out of Blackrock Neurotech products  — Investment will also be used research and development
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
The NHTSA is investigating Ford's driver assistance system BlueCruise, which was active during two crashes that killed multiple people in Texas and Pennsylvania  —  Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into Ford's hands-free driver assistance system, BlueCruise …

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount has offered $15M to settle with Trump; Trump's team wants more than $25M, is seeking an apology from CBS News, and threatened another lawsuit

Ben Johansen / Politico:
Sources: all 800 full-time VOA staff are expected to receive reduction-in-force notices this week, after ~600 VOA contractors were dismissed earlier in May

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery

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Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
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