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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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,” …
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
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”.
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 …
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.
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 …
More: VICE and MediaPost
Bluesky: @edzitron.com.  X: @rick_zullo and @pitdesi.  Forums: Slashdot
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)
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 …
Forums: r/technology
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) …
Bloomberg:
President Donald 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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Memo: CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon is stepping down from the network, saying “it's become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward”

Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Netflix says Season 56 of Sesame Street will be available on Netflix “later this year”; Sesame Street had searched for a streamer since Max dropped it in 2024

New York Times:
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway re-sign their Vox Media deal using a novel revenue-sharing contract with no guaranteed payments, potentially earning them ~$70M

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal:
How Nike and US manufacturer Flex's plan to automate sneaker production in Guadalajara ran into trouble, with factory robots struggling to handle soft materials
More: BusinessLIVE.  Bluesky: @frankpasquale.  X: @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj
Connor Jones / The Register:
The UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance
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
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