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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 …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI prompts that friends and others have shared
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Meta plans to add cloud-based AI features to WhatsApp, like message summarization and composition, using Private Processing so the data is inaccessible to Meta
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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:
Online graphic design platform Freepik releases F Lite, a ~10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images  —  Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into three tiers to determine how many AI chips a country can obtain  —  The Trump administration is working on changes to a Biden-era rule that would limit global access to AI chips …
CNBC:
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., $2.96 ARPU, vs. $2.93 est., and 460M DAUs, but declines to provide Q2 guidance; SNAP drops 13%+  —  Snap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but declined to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties that could weigh on advertising demand.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Kintsugi, which uses AI to help companies automate their sales tax compliance, raised $18M at a $150M post-money valuation, up from $80M in November 2024  —  Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., and $0.29 to $0.31 EPS, vs. $0.54 est., lower than past guidance; SMCI drops 19%+  —  Super Micro shares fell as much as 19% on Tuesday after the server maker announced preliminary results for the fiscal third quarter …

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount has offered $15M to settle with Trump; Trump's team wants more than $25M, is seeking an apology from CBS News, and threatened another lawsuit

Ben Johansen / Politico:
Sources: all 800 full-time VOA staff are expected to receive reduction-in-force notices this week, after ~600 VOA contractors were dismissed earlier in May

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery

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