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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
More: The White House, The White House, New York Times, The Information, CoinDesk, Axios, CNBC, New York Post, Washington Post, MarketWatch, Blockchain News, Coinmonks, NewsBTC en español, The Economic Times, Politico, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, ZyCrypto, Wu Blockchain, Agence France-Presse, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Yahoo Finance, Protos, UPI, The Block, crypto.news, Gulf News, Raw Story, CryptoPotato, The Hill, Times of India, BTC Times, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Associated Press, Cryptopolitan, ZeroHedge News, CNN, CoinDesk, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, and Decrypt
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Forums: r/FinanzenAT, r/wallstreetbets, r/news, and r/DeepFuckingValue
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors  —  After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users …
NewsGuard's Reality Check:
NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time  —  An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
Financial Times:
Analysis: the $TRUMP memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns  —  Donald Trump's crypto project made at least $350mn from the launch of his memecoin, a windfall that is likely to fuel concerns …
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
VCs are increasingly pouring money into “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others  —  Forget LLMs.  Silicon Valley investors have a new favorite AI play.  —  Not long ago, Silicon Valley was dismissive of startups like Harvey.
X: @alex
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $7.85B, vs. $7.82B est., Q2 and FY 2025 guidance below est., and plans to cut ~2,500 staff over 18 months; HPE drops 15%+  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares slid 19% in extended trading on Thursday as the data center equipment maker issued quarterly …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns  —  Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed

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From Mediagazer

Natalie Jarvey / The Ankler:
With Kid Cowboy, Nickelodeon becomes the first TV network to debut an original series in full on YouTube, bowing to YouTube's supremacy among kids

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Similarweb: total desktop social referral traffic from Facebook grew 75% YoY for 68 top English-language news sites due to algorithm changes in January 2025

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Matthews is reviving Hardball on Substack with new episodes on Mondays at noon; Matthews abruptly retired from MSNBC in March 2020

More News

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $14.92B, vs. $14.61B est., net income up 315% YoY to $5.5B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AVGO jumps 5%+
Marc Caputo / Axios:
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Sources: Larry Page has formed Dynatomics, which is trying to use LLMs to create highly optimized designs for various objects and then have a factory build them
CoinDesk:
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing

Earlier Picks

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet and Sundar Pichai as part of its investigation into alleged censorship under the Biden administration
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: longtime Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes is leading a shake-up of the US Chips Program Office, which is administering billions in semiconductor subsidies
More: Tom's Hardware.  Bluesky: @denisedwheeler, @craigipedia, and @rmac
X: @tbraithwaite and @tim
Forums: r/Economics and r/finance
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman says that for 25% of the W25 batch, 95%+ of their codebases are AI generated, not including code like for importing libraries
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Reddit adds tools like Post Insights, Post Recovery, and Post Check, which helps users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to items like passwords, which then show up in its mobile app's Nearby section when the user is close
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
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