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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell to oversee Siri  —  Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple
Bloomberg:
SoftBank acquires Ampere Computing for $6.5B in cash, with Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes as part of the deal, which is expected to close in H2 2025  —  SoftBank is buying Ampere in an all-cash transaction that values the Santa Clara, California-based firm at $6.5 billion, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Financial Times:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend “several hundred billion” on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid US tariff threats  —  Jensen Huang's pledge follows onshoring plans by other tech companies as Trump trade policies ripple through industry
Reuters:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel, following a report about a consortium with TSMC to operate Intel's factories
Sue Marek / Ookla:
Analysis: AT&T and Verizon Speedtest users saw higher median download speeds on the iPhone 16e and its C1 than the iPhone 16; T-Mobile users saw the opposite  —  The 16e is the first iPhone to feature the Apple-designed C1 modem.  —  Key Takeaways:  — AT&T and Verizon Speedtest® …
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; source: Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut  —  Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company's video-streaming service …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta plans to roll out Meta AI with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, after pausing its debut in June 2024  —  A more limited version of Meta AI will head to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger this week.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse  —  Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web.
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Crypto exchange Kraken acquires US retail futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B, pending “purchase price adjustments”; NinjaTrader has 1.8M+ customers  —  NinjaTrader, a futures trading platform, would expand Kraken's offerings  —  The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken agreed …
Reuters:
Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its US IPO at a valuation between $27.4B and $32B, selling 49M shares for $47 to $55; Nvidia owns 5.96%  —  CoreWeave is targeting a valuation of up to $32 billion on a fully diluted basis in its U.S. initial public offering, as the Nvidia …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Sam Altman on the path to OpenAI, its origin story, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and the AI outlook  —  This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to select developers for $150/1M input and $600/1M output tokens  —  OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK NCSC urges large entities, including energy and transport providers, to introduce “post-quantum cryptography” by 2035 to protect against quantum hackers  —  Organisations including energy and transport firms told to guard systems against powerful new computers
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud”  —  Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act …
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
US schools spending billions on laptops, an idea supported by technologists and computer makers, has led to students' worsening social skills and test scores  —  Technology should supplement, not substitute, traditional teaching methods.  —  Over the past two decades …

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Associated Press:
President Trump signed an EO on May 1 instructing CPB and other agencies to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting

Washington Post:
After VOA director said staff can begin a “phased return”, an appeals court stays the preliminary injunction that allowed VOA and USAGM staffers to go back

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Earlier Picks

Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says the Disney+ show's scripts will not be released as planned, due to fears that they could be used as AI training data
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
A group of cross-discipline video game workers in the US and Canada announce United Videogame Workers, a direct-join industry-wide union organizing with the CWA
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Verizon says its satellite text messaging service is now available to owners of Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones at no extra charge
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