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The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more — Justice Department says iPhone maker leveraged its dominance to block software and limit functionality of competing devices
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ — The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.
More: PCWorld, The Verge, Neowin, and How-To Geek
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says the US DOJ winning its lawsuit “would set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology” — The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of operating …
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Payments Dive, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, London Evening Standard, Redmond Pie, KnowTechie, and The Register
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: |
The DOJ's Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was — The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia sued Apple for antitrust this morning in federal court.| Bloomberg: |
Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis — The San Francisco-based company's stock began trading on Thursday at $47 each, above the offering price of $34 per share.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon — Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny — - Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU's Big Tech clampdown — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure — Microsoft doesn't want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI's co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition.
More: Reuters and The Decoder
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more — Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won't be sold directly to consumers.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M — The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
More: Thurrott. Mastodon: @andyn@social.lol. X: @browsercompany, @_shankarganesh, @jackrandalll, @joekndy, and @vanlancker. Forums: r/ArcBrowser
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube TV gets multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch up to four TV channels at once; Android support is set to arrive “in the coming months” — Google has confirmed that YouTube TV is now rolling out support for Multiview on the iPhone and iPad, but the feature won't arrive on Android for a while.| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm
More: Ars Technica, Protos, Cryptonews, Financial Times, and CoinDesk
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese state media: Tim Cook said “there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China” and praised “modernization in Chinese factories” — Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures claims to have built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials — OpenAI claimed it's “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” …
More: Hugging Face, Silicon Republic, and Fairly Trained
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying its aim is to “restrict the use of such devices to legitimate actors only” — A Canadian regulatory agency says the aim is to restrict the Flipper Zero ‘to legitimate actors only.’ — Michael Kan
More: XDA Developers and BleepingComputer
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the 10K most popular websites shows that dozens share data with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies — Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies …
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange and @Theeo123@mastodon.social
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify's TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M — A new TikTok-like redesign from the streaming giant unveils actual audience data for top podcasters — Welcome back to Soundbite.| Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans — The rollout is also timed to the second season of “House of the Dragon” — Max will begin its launch in Europe on May 21 … | Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
In a research paper, Google Research details how AI helped to provide more accurate flood forecasting in 80+ countries up to seven days in advance of the flood — A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods …
More: Tech Brew, Google AI Blog, ZDNet, Nature, ZME Science, Engadget, Google Research on YouTube, Interesting Engineering, Livemint, Android Headlines, and Business Standard
LinkedIn: Robert Emberson, Debbie W., Kate Brandt, Juliet Rothenberg, and Adam Elman
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A — - That's all well and good. … - It might, for example, take a ton of work for a blockchain to verify all its transactions, but then applications that use …
More: Succinct, The Block, NFTgators, and CoinJournal
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, founded by two ex-Google researchers, releases three Japanese language models built using “model merging”, which combines existing models — Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup founded by two prominent former Google (GOOGL.O) researchers …
More: Sakana AI and arXiv.org
X: @sakanaailabs, @vkhosla, @sakanaailabs, @sakanaailabs, and @graceisford
LinkedIn: Arvind Ayyala, Mohamed El Mehdi Khalfoun, and Christine Tsai
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing” — - But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.
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| Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: |
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