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Reuters: 40 mins ago

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

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: 1½ hours ago

Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop an autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally-owned vehicles

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 3 hours ago

Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements

Alex Heath / The Verge:

Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share

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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy

Fortune:

Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site”

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon”

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, subscribers up 12% to 268M, vs. 265.2M est., MAUs up 10%, forecasts Q2 gross profit margins and MAUs below est.

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:

Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop an autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally-owned vehicles

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22

CNBC:

Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., and does not offer Q2 guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties; SNAP drops 14%+ after hours

Wired:

Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices

Paige Smith / Bloomberg:

PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 1% YoY to $7.8B, transaction margin dollars up 7% to $3.7B, above est., TPV up 3% to $417.2B, and active accounts up 2% to 436M

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements

Bloomberg:

The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation

Karen Freifeld / Reuters:

Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into tiers that help determine how many AI chips a country can obtain

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., earnings per share of $0.29 to $0.31, vs. $0.54 est.; SMCI drops 16%+ after hours

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