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Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13, a day before the start of Google's annual I/O developer conference  —  OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games, including Candy Crush Saga, and later opening to other publishers  —  The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft's own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component  —  Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly  —  Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions.  They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
Mike Solana / Pirate Wires:
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more  —  jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph:
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform in May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds  —  The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for its “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plan to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”  —  The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives
Financial Times:
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google  —  Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow the EU and US in trying to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google  —  Japan, South Korea and Australia are tightening rules …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
As Elon Musk posts memes about buying MSNBC, sources say one liberal billionaire expressed interest in buying the channel; Comcast is not looking to sell MSNBC

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, previews an AI model that can generate lyrics and samples of songs from text prompts
Nectar Gan / CNN:
Baidu's PR chief Qu Jing reportedly left the company after criticism over her Douyin videos demanding that workers must be available 24 hours a day

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses of US Cellular for $2B+; Verizon is also in talks with US Cellular
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Financial Times:
TikTok plans to start automatically labeling some AI content, including from DALL-E and Adobe's Firefly, and joins the Adobe-led content credentials coalition
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Google got Gemini image generation wrong, the future of search, layoffs, and more
Wall Street Journal:
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out
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