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Financial Times:
Sources: the EU has determined that Apple's anti-steering rules for developers do not comply with the DMA, and plans charges against Apple in the coming weeks  —  Brussels to announce iPhone maker is failing to adhere to new rules designed to open up its app store to competition
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft delays Recall to test it with the Windows Insider Program and won't ship it with Copilot+ PCs next week, after saying it would make the feature opt-in  —  Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do on these new laptops.
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects:
A look at Apple's technical approach to AI, including core model performance, alignment strategies, and adapter and on-device strategy  —  Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble.  Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models “thinking different.”
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Apple says it doesn't train its models on users' private data or user interactions, and instead relies on licensed materials and publicly available online data  —  At WWDC on Monday, Apple revealed Apple Intelligence, a suite of features bringing generative AI tools like rewriting an email draft …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Meta will not launch Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using the public Facebook and Instagram content of adult EU users  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) will not launch its Meta AI in Europe for now following a request from the Irish privacy regulator, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.
Bloomberg:
Gemini will return ~$50M of digital assets to investors who were locked out of their accounts when Gemini Earn collapsed, to settle a lawsuit by New York's AG  —  - Attorney General Letitia James sued Gemini Trust in October  — The settlement follows similar action brought against Genesis
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Luma debuts Dream Machine, an AI model that generates high-quality videos from text and images, and plans to release APIs and plugins for popular creative tools  —  Luma AI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, today announced the release of Dream Machine, a powerful new AI system capable …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4  —  The Scoop  —  OpenAI was founded, in large part, as an AI safety countermeasure to DeepMind, the AI company acquired by Google in 2014.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
US hospital operator Ascension says a May ransomware attack was caused by an employee downloading a malicious file, and has no proof data was taken from its EHR  —  Ascension, one of the largest U.S. healthcare systems, revealed that a May 2024 ransomware attack was caused by an employee …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for the issues the CSRB found, its business in China serves US interests, and more  —  Microsoft President Brad Smith faced the the House Homeland Security Committee amid sharp criticism the company's practices put government clients at risk.

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Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
A profile of Natalie Winters, a Steve Bannon protégée, War Room reporter, and Piers Morgan Uncensored contributor, who now has a White House press pass

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Twelve-year-old French policy title Contexte, which had €10.7M in 2024 revenue, plans to launch an EU-focused English-language edition to rival Politico in May

More News

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos faces a backlash after removing a line from its US privacy policy that said Sonos “does not and will not sell personal information about our customers”
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
A deep dive into the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus architecture, including Oryon, Qualcomm's custom ARM CPU cores, as the first laptops with the SoC ship next week
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database

Earlier Picks

Amy Or / Bloomberg:
Tempus, which uses AI to process medical data, raised $410.7M after pricing its IPO at $37 a share, the top of a marketed range, giving it a $6.1B market value
Platformer:
Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; Paradigm launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI adds retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, who led the NSA and US Cyber Command, to its board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
US authorities arrest and charge the founder and the head doctor of telehealth startup Done Global for an alleged scheme to profit from Adderall prescriptions
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp increases the limit for video call participants to 32 people, enhances screen sharing by adding audio support, and introduces a speaker spotlight tool
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sony rolls out an update to Discord on the PS5 that integrates the app into the console's dashboard and lets users join voice calls directly, starting in Asia
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke steps down to explore “AI/bio” projects at Alphabet; sources say the Platforms & Devices team is undergoing a reorg
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