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The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber, accusing the ride-hailing and delivery company of deceptive billing and cancellation practices tied to its subscription service.
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| Julian Mark / Washington Post: |
The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme” — The remedies trial opens in Washington with the government pushing to break up the company through measures that Google lawyers deem “extreme.”
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings — On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team — Bluesky's new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
More: Bluesky, GitHub, PCMag, Forbes, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, Neowin, MediaPost, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Engadget, The Verge, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, The Desk, and TechCrunch
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline — An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
More: Just Security, Mission Local, Trak.in, and CNN
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 — Customers in the US and 200-plus other markets that didn't previously have price-display regulations will now see the total cost …
More: Airbnb Newsroom, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNN, Skift, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Sherwood News, and Entrepreneur
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” — On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced he's raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures …
More: Cluely, Decrypt, and Stove Top
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Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Circle, BitGo, and other firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, as the Trump administration pushes to bring crypto into mainstream finance — Circle, BitGo and other crypto firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses — Crypto is pushing deeper into the banking system.| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Brand aggregator Upexi says it is raising $100M to accumulate Solana, causing its shares to surge over 400%, part of a trend of companies investing in crypto — Upexi Inc. is raising $100 million as part of a pivot that will see the company start to accumulate the cryptocurrency Solana, according to a Monday statement.
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Circle unveils a network designed to link financial institutions and enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments, starting with USDC and EURC in May — Circle Internet Group Inc. is launching a payments network designed to allow financial institutions and technology firms to settle cross-border transactions in stablecoins.
More: PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
Microsoft has improved Recall, but biometrics are only required for setup and users can open it with just a PIN, and sensitive data filtering is unreliable — Last year, Microsoft announced Recall, a feature which screenshots your PC every few seconds, OCRs the screenshots and produces … | NDTV: |
Google settles an Android TV case with India's competition regulator, will offer standalone licenses for Play Store and Play Services for Android TVs in India — This is the first case that has been settled under the amended Competition Act, wherein the settlement and committment provisions were introduced in 2023.Sponsor Posts
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