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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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Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social, and @jwildeboer@social …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Discord CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be succeeded by Humam Sakhnini, effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and serve as a CEO advisor — Jason Citron is stepping down as CEO of Discord and he has hired game veteran Humam Sakhnini as the new CEO.
More: The Verge, Discord Blog, TechCrunch, PocketGamer.biz, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Dexerto, Bloomberg, PC Gamer, and CNBC
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk, @daniloc.xyz, and @alexeheath.com
X: @lucas_shaw, @cecianasta, @jasoncitron, @pimdewitte, and @suhail
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/discordapp, and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
President Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the TRUMP memecoin on May 22, according to the memecoin's website; TRUMP jumps 40%+ — President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the Trump memecoin, the issuers of the cryptocurrency announced on Wednesday.
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Bluesky: @martinsfp and @roryroberge
X: @maxhoffmandc, @tysonbrody, @danpfeiffer, and @mccartneywp
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/politics
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
On the 20th birthday of its first video, YouTube says it has had 20B+ 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 …
More: Facebook, MacRumors, Adweek, Mercury News, Reuters, MediaPost, Neowin, Social Media Today, NBC Connecticut, Engadget, Bloomberg, and The Verge
| 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.| 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: Futurism, New Republic, and The Independent
Bluesky: @kevincollier, @kateconger.com, @karlbode.com, @jugander, @dgschell, @quinnypig.com, and @noupside
Forums: r/Twitter, r/skeptic, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, and r/politics
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens — OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API …
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X: @sama, @iterintellectus, @openaidevs, and @sama
Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.6% YoY to $14.54B, vs. $14.4B est., software revenue up 7% to $6.34B, and maintains its full-year forecast — IBM reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday. The stock slipped 2% in extended trading. — Here's how the company performed:| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Microsoft 365 Copilot with OpenAI-powered AI agents Researcher and Analyst, available via its new Agent Store, AI-powered Search, and more — Microsoft announced today a major expansion of its artificial intelligence tools with the “Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release …
More: Microsoft, ZDNET, The Verge, Microsoft, OpenAI, Maginative, GeekWire, Constellation Research, and Windows Central. LinkedIn: Satya Nadella
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: a Perplexity executive says Google's contract with Motorola blocked Perplexity from being the default AI assistant on new Motorola devices — - AI startup's app will be preloaded on new Motorola phones — Company in negotiations with another smartphone maker
More: The Information, Bloomberg Law, SamMobile, and Cryptopolitan
| Financial Times: |
Cantor's Brandon Lutnick, the son of the US commerce secretary, Tether, Bitfinex, and SoftBank form Twenty One Capital, a $3.6B bitcoin acquisition vehicle — Vehicle backed by son of US commerce secretary comes as investors hope for more favourable policy on digital currency
More: Twenty One Capital, Inc., Bloomberg, Decrypt, The Information, The Block, Inside Bitcoins, Reuters, Forbes, Fortune, The Crypto Basic, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Sherwood News, CryptoSlate, NewsBTC, CoinGape, BTC Times, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @staffordphilip. X: @juthica, @market_heretic, @jfk_america, @tier10k, @cryptofizzbuzz, @_the_prophet__, @izakaminska, and @antoinegara. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Neuralink has begun preliminary discussions to raise about $500M at an $8.5B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: it was valued at $3.5B as of November 2023 — Elon Musk's Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: The Information, Reuters, Proactive, and Axios
| 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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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving — Tesla has started testing its autonomous ride-hail service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area ahead of the company's planned robotaxi launch this summer.
More: PCMag, Bloomberg, The Information, and TESLARATI
X: @tesla_ai, @scobleizer, @omead, @chamath, and @elonmusk
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal documents: several Google units have notified remote workers that their jobs will be in jeopardy if they don't show up at the office three days a week — Five years removed from the onset of the Covid pandemic, Google is demanding that some remote employees return to the office … | 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 Decrypt
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku updates its $30 Streaming Stick and $40 Streaming Stick Plus, saying they are “the most compact sticks on the market”, and unveils new software updates — The company also introduced a pair of battery-powered smart home cameras, new Roku OS software features, and more.
More: Android Police, PCWorld, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, VICE, 9to5Google, Mercury News, PCMag, How-To Geek, MakeUseOf, The Desk, Tom's Guide, Neowin, TechRadar, Roku, CNET, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Bloomberg, The Streamable, The Shortcut, Cord Cutters News, and The Wrap
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Documents: OpenAI told investors it expects revenues of $125B in 2029 and $174B in 2030, with sales from agents and other products exceeding those from ChatGPT — For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI's cash cow. But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its G-Assist AI chatbot, offering plugin and API support to let developers connect to external services and tools, such as Spotify and Gemini — G-Assist is moving beyond just improving PC gaming, to controlling more apps and services.| 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: The Register, The Decoder, Semafor, Silicon UK, Washington Post, and The Information. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia announces the general availability of its NeMo platform to build AI agents, supporting Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Phi, Google's Gemma, and Mistral — Nvidia Corp. today announced the general availability of NeMo microservices, a set of tools designed to assist developers …
More: The New Stack, NVIDIA, Techstrong.ai, The Register, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNET
| 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. X: @trengriffin, @mattmday, @mattmday, @sawyermerritt, and @kingtutcap
Forums: r/SpaceXLounge, r/Starlink, r/space, and Slashdot
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, and Android Headlines
| TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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| 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
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