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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors  —  After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users …
NewsGuard's Reality Check:
An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time  —  An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $7.85B, vs. $7.82B est., Q2 and FY 2025 guidance below est., and plans to cut ~2,500 employees; HPE drops 20%+ after hours  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares slid 19% in extended trading on Thursday as the data center equipment maker issued quarterly …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals …
CoinDesk:
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing  —  Between his recent social posts referring to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an interview with The New York Sun …
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Sources: Larry Page has formed a new company, Dynatomics, to use LLMs to create highly optimized designs for various objects and then have a factory build them  —  Google co-founder Larry Page has formed a new company, Dynatomics, to upend manufacturing with artificial intelligence.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training  —  On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents.
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Broadcom Q1: revenue up 25% YoY to $14.92B, vs. $14.61B est., net income up 315% YoY to $5.5B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AVGO jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Broadcom (AVGO.O) on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on strong demand …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers  —  The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed

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From Mediagazer

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction

New York Times:
Sources: the White House plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR, PBS, and others

Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
How David Zaslav became an “accidental mogul” who is navigating WBD out of its cultural, generational, and technological obsolescence during the Trump era

More News

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet and Sundar Pichai as part of its investigation into alleged censorship under the Biden administration
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: longtime Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes is leading a shake-up of the Chips Program Office, which administers billions in semiconductor subsidies

Earlier Picks

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman says that for 25% of the W25 batch, 95%+ of their codebases are AI generated, not including code like for importing libraries
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Reddit adds tools like Post Insights, Post Recovery, and Post Check, which helps users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to passwords and other items, which then appear in its mobile app when the user is near those locations
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
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