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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella says 20% to 30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was AI-written, and Microsoft was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI …
More: CNBC, PCWorld, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, The Register, Meta Developers on YouTube, Tech in Asia, PCMag, Business Insider, Windows Report, PC Gamer, Benzinga, The Economic Times, WinBuzzer, Business Today, Moneycontrol, SiliconANGLE, XDA Developers, nextbigwhat, Associated Press, Sherwood News, Engadget, and Wall Street Journal
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X: @taylordbarkley, @levie, @apphil, @tonytico, and @codebypoonam
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, r/microsoft, r/technology, and r/theprimeagen
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more — Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it's not replacing the Wikipedia community … | Financial Times: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US to court if necessary to protect European customers' “continuity of access” to its services — Tech group says it would sue to keep European access to crucial cloud services — Microsoft's top legal officer …
More: Microsoft, Silicon Republic, Thurrott, Politico, Reuters, Associated Press, RTÉ, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, Telegraph, Atlantic Council, UPI, Le Monde, CNBC, Mobile Europe, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @parismarx.com. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social. X: @privacymatters, @benjaminbjerre, and @bradsmi. Forums: Slashdot
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3 — The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
More: Hugging Face, The JetBrains Blog, TechCrunch, nextbigwhat, WinBuzzer, and Tech in Asia
X: @zhs05232838, @openrouterai, @xanderatallah, @dorialexander, @devgerred, @ns123abc, @sino_market, and @angrytomtweets. Forums: r/DeepSeek
| Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing — Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
More: Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, The Decoder, nextbigwhat, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, DigiTimes, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, XiaomiTime, Tech in Asia, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, and Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face
Bluesky: @sungkim. X: @jagersbergknut, @_akhaliq, @gm8xx8, @sino_market, and @adinayakup. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says GPT-4o's latest update is “now 100% rolled back” for free ChatGPT users and is rolling back for paid users, in a bid to fix the model's sycophancy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/agi, and r/singularity
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Meta, Spotify, and Match launch the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience, a lobbying coalition to take on Apple and Google over user age verification — App makers Meta Platforms Inc., Spotify Technology SA and Match Group Inc. are girding for a high-stakes political battle … | Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$55.4B, operating profit up 1.2% YoY to ~$4.68B, and chip division operating profit down 42% YoY to ~$770M — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) reported on Wednesday a small rise in first-quarter operating profit as customers concerned about U.S. tariffs rushed …
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| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says the DOJ's proposal to share Google search data with rivals amounts to a “de facto” spinoff of Google's search engine and its IP — If Google were required to share both its search data and the information on how it ranks results …
More: Business Insider, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, Computerworld, and Bloomberg Law
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site — The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
EA says it laid off staff and canceled “two early-stage incubation projects”; sources say EA cut 300 to 400 roles and its Respawn unit canceled a Titanfall game — The video-game publisher cuts between 300 and 400 jobs — Electronic Arts Inc. is laying off hundreds of workers …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple reorganizes its global affairs unit, including management of the government teams for Europe and Asia, and Apple Music's leadership structure — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.| Financial Times: |
Rogo, which offers an AI chatbot that replicates an investment banker, raised a $50M Series B led by Thrive at a $350M valuation, after raising $18.5M in 2024 — Rogo, founded by an ex-Lazard analyst, has raised $50mn from investors led by Thrive Capital — An AI start-up behind a chatbot …
More: PYMNTS.com and Rogo
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Duolingo launches 148 new language courses developed with generative AI, doubling its offerings for non-English speakers within a year, as it aims for 1B+ users — On Wednesday, Duolingo signaled that approach is helping to rapidly expand its language-learning courses … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles — Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.
More: Waymo, Engadget, Investor's Business Daily, The Decoder, Electrek, electrive.com, TechCrunch, Analytics India Magazine, Forbes, 9to5Google, Reuters, and The Verge
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @carlquintanilla, and @lorak
X: @waymo, @wholemarsblog, @techtekedra, @saswat101, and @dmitri_dolgov
Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub, r/RealTesla, r/waymo, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service — A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.
More: Supreme Court News …, Security Affairs, Bar and Bench, Digit, The Indian Express, CyberInsider, MEDIANAMA, Moneycontrol, The Hacker News, Inc42 Media, Cointelegraph, The Hindu, and nextbigwhat
Forums: r/unitedstatesofindia, r/privacy, r/IndiaTech, and r/india
| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50.3% of the watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16.3% — It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer …
More: Dexerto, Digiday, and Music Ally
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei has sold 10+ sets of its AI chip cluster CloudMatrix 384, including to data centers that serve Chinese tech companies, in a bid to rival Nvidia — CloudMatrix 384 sent to data centres serving Chinese tech companies as they seek to fill gap created by US export controls
More: Cryptopolitan, TipRanks Financial, Semafor, MarketWatch, and International Business Times. X: @johnthackara
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Google Play now hosts ~1.8M Android apps, down 47% from ~3.4M at the start of 2024, likely due to raising minimum quality requirements in July 2024 — Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …
More: Chrome Unboxed, Forbes, 9to5Google, PCMag, Android Headlines, SammyGuru, Tech Advisor, Android Police, and Android Authority
| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
Doc: the EU's draft International Digital Strategy, set for June 4, acknowledges that decoupling from US tech is “unrealistic” and calls for strategic alliances — The European Union is set to admit that untangling from the dominance of U.S. tech companies is “unrealistic” … | Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Filing: PayPal discloses that the US SEC said in February 2025 that it was closing its investigation into the PayPal USD stablecoin “without enforcement action” — PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant's US-dollar stablecoin.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI legal analysis startup Supio, which focuses on personal injury law across 114+ case types, raised $60M led by Sapphire, taking its total funding to $91M — Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led …
More: GeekWire and Legal Tech News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts the Llama API for fine-tuning and evaluating the performance of its Llama models, available in limited preview with pricing yet to be announced — At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API.
More: The Information, Meta, eeNews Europe, VentureBeat, Analytics India Magazine, Neowin, Reuters, nextbigwhat, The Fast Mode, The Economic Times, Groq, Research & Development World, CNET, Techstrong.ai, Forbes, Constellation Research, The Decoder, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, Business Wire, The Information, Wired, and The Verge
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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