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The European Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA and issues cease-and-desist orders to both companies; Apple and Meta say they will appeal — Fines come as European officials pursue trade talks with the Trump administration — BRUSSELS—The European Union fined Apple …
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Bluesky: @hdijkstra, @bremaininspain.com, @gateklons, and @corporateeurope
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social, and @jwildeboer@social …
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/eutech, r/wallstreetbets, r/theprimeagen, and r/europeanunion
| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: OpenAI's ChatGPT chief Nick Turley says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off — OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said in a court hearing Tuesday.
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Threads: @firerock31 and @kris_walker
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/technology, and r/theprimeagen
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Intel is set to unveil plans this week to cut 20%+ of staff, its first major restructuring under Lip-Bu Tan; Intel had 108,900 workers in December 2024 — Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker …
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Forums: r/Portland, r/AMD_Stock, r/Columbus, r/intel, r/Semiconductors, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
On the 20th birthday of its first video, YouTube says it has had 20T+ uploads, including 20M+ daily now, and unveils app and TV updates, including new Multiview — YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday with a number of stats, while previewing new features that are coming this year.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and others — Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app … | Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out live translations and other AI features to all Ray-Ban smart glasses, unveils new color lens combos, and plans an India, Mexico, and UAE debut — The Ray-Ban Meta Skyler frames are also now available in shiny chalky gray with sapphire Transitions lenses.
More: ZDNET, Meta, The Economic Times, The Hindu, Business Standard, Reuters, Moneycontrol, Digit, India Today, MIXED Reality News, and Meta. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding” — A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …
More: Nari on GitHub and The Rundown AI
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches new OpenAI-powered AI agents, Researcher and Analyst, designed to function as digital colleagues, available via its Agent Store — Microsoft announced today a major expansion of its artificial intelligence tools with the “Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release,” …
More: ZDNET, Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, GeekWire, The Windows Club, and Constellation Research
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
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Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR — Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly that it's not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Geoffrey Hinton, other AI experts, and 10 former OpenAI staff write to the CA and DE AGs opposing OpenAI's for-profit restructure, echoing Elon Musk's concerns — Former employees and figures such as Geoffrey Hinton warn of dangers of allowing start-up to make corporate switch
More: Semafor, Silicon UK, Associated Press, The Information, and Washington Post. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon's Project Kuiper has completed just a few dozen satellites so far, far below the pace needed to reach the FCC's 1,618 deadline by July 2026 — Project Kuiper has completed just a few dozen satellites so far, more than a year into its manufacturing program, according to three people familiar with the situation.
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Information
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets — Speaking on the company's earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, a new AI video generation model in closed beta that animates characters in diverse styles and voices, including human-like and 2D — Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday.
More: Character.AI Blog, Mashable, Livemint, and Android Headlines
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Cantor's Brandon Lutnick, the son of the US commerce secretary, seeks to form a $3B bitcoin acquisition vehicle with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex — Investment vehicle backed by son of commerce secretary comes as US adopts more favourable policy on digital currency
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Bluesky: @staffordphilip. X: @juthica, @market_heretic, @jfk_america, @tier10k, @cryptofizzbuzz, @_the_prophet__, @izakaminska, and @antoinegara
| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Samsung resumes rolling out One UI 7, per users on Reddit, X, and forums, after pausing it earlier in April, bringing new icons, a new camera UI, and more — - Samsung has resumed the One UI 7 update. — Users in Africa, the US, and several other locales have reported that they received the new software.| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive on AMD 2.0: a new sense of urgency, rapid AI software stack progress, a critical talent retention challenge, ROCm lags Nvidia's CUDA, and more — - What's New Since our December AMD Article? — AMD's Culture Shift - A Renewed Sense of Urgency — What Makes CUDA Great?| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Analysis: three X users who used to receive hundreds of thousands of views daily have seen their reach collapse after feuding with Elon Musk in December 2024 — Note: Five-day moving average. Views are only shown up to 400,000. Source: X — When Mr. Musk purchased X in 2022 …
More: New Republic. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @kateconger.com, @dgschell, @kevincollier, @jugander, and @noupside. Threads: @ianbremmer. LinkedIn: Johnny Ryan
Forums: r/Twitter, r/skeptic, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/politics
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users — Meta's Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions … | Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
How WBD rebuilt Max to focus on adult-oriented shows like The Pitt, dropping Netflix's “more is better” approach, and expects it to hit 150M subscribers in 2026 — Warner pivots to pared-down model instead of competing with Netflix, and forecasts 150 million subscribers in 2026
More: The Ankler and Barron's Online
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Nintendo says Switch 2 preorder demand in Japan “far exceeds expectations” and 2.2M applied via a lottery; Nintendo is offering a cheaper, region-locked model — 2.2m people applied to buy, and a “significant number” will be unsuccessful. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London and Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers a “virtual CISO” for SMBs, raised a $37M Series B, sources say at a $140M+ post-money valuation — Small and medium businesses are the newest targets for cybersecurity attacks, with 1 in 3 breached last year.
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Cynomi
| IWF: |
In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM — Call for Member States to come together and push forward with ‘desperately needed’ child protection laws as thousands …
More: The Guardian, The Independent, IWF, and The Standard
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Listen Labs, which uses AI to conduct thousands of voice interviews simultaneously for customer research, raised $27M across a seed and Series A led by Sequoia — Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann, co-founders of Sequoia-backed AI startup Listen Labs (photo courtesy of Listen Labs)
More: Sequoia Capital. X: @florian_jue, @pejmannozad, @ericw, and @itsalfredw. LinkedIn: Sharon Goldman
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
WhatsApp rolls out Advanced Chat Privacy, a new opt-in tool to block participants from sharing the contents of a conversation in traditional chats and groups — The opt-in setting will also stop the auto-downloading of media and AI integration. — WhatsApp is introducing …
More: TechCrunch, The Hindu, WhatsApp Blog, Mashable, India Today, and The Economic Times
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