• Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

• Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

• Washington Post: TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard

• Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators

• William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log: Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

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• Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days

• Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Ethan Mollick, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose early embrace of AI made him a go-to expert for policymakers and corporate leaders

• Karen Weise / New York Times: Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

• Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months

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• Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022

• Debangana Ghosh / Moneycontrol: India's top five IT services companies, including Infosys and Wipro, collectively saw a decline of 69,167 employees in FY 2024; HCLTech added 1,537 employees

• Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post: The US IRS says it spent $10.5M to develop and $2.4M to run its free tax filing website, used by 140K+ taxpayers in 12 states, and claims high user satisfaction

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• Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue

• Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills

• 45 minutes ago Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Ethan Mollick, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose early embrace of AI made him a go-to expert for policymakers and corporate leaders

• 5 hours ago Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

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• 17 hours ago Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days

• 19 hours ago Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board

• 20 hours ago Karen Weise / New York Times: Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

• 22 hours ago Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators

• 23 hours ago Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue

• 26 hours ago William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log: Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

• 30 hours ago Jonathan Ford / Financial Times: A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

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• 32 hours ago Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills

• 33 hours ago Nikkei Asia: Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US”

• 33 hours ago Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

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