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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell will take over Siri, which is being removed from AI head John Giannandrea; Rockwell will report to Craig Federighi  —  Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple Mark Gurman Answers Your Questions About Apple
Benedict Evans:
Apple stumbling with Vision Pro and then falling flat on its face with AI suggests that it is slipping into a Vista-like drift of systemically poor execution  —  It matters that Apple's new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn't realise.  Is it more than that?
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 …
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 …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic adds web search in preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, available now for paid US Claude users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon  —  Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, can now search the web — a capability that had long eluded it.
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.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Huawei unveils the 6.3" Pura X, a flip foldable that opens from the side, not the top, and its first flagship with HarmonyOS 5, launching in China for ~$1,036  —  The 6.3-inch Pura X folds in half to a square clamshell with a 3.5-inch display on the exterior and was introduced …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI adds gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model that it says delivers more nuanced and realistic-sounding speech, and two speech-to-text models to its API  —  OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web, using AI to show the most relevant results instead of showing them in chronological order  —  Google is introducing “smarter search” to Gmail for Android, iOS, and the web that leverages “AI to show you the most relevant results, faster.”
New York Times:
A profile of longtime Elon Musk loyalist Steve Davis, who effectively runs DOGE after SpaceX, Boring Company, and X stints, based on interviews with 22 sources  —  Elon Musk declared last month that the federal government was engaged in “utterly insane” activity, claiming without evidence …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025  —  Video Quests will start rolling out to mobile users in June. … Discord is bringing third-party ads to its mobile platform.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Threads rolls out new features: ability to set following feed or any custom feed as the default, limit post replies to followers, a better video player, more  —  Threads will also let you limit replies to just followers and add topics to your bio. … Meta is finally allowing Threads users …
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
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Sam Altman on his background, OpenAI's origin as a nonprofit, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and AGI  —  This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …
Gillian Tan / Bloomberg:
Source: Insight Partners is set to reap ~$2.7B from the pending sale of Wiz to Alphabet, a 15.5x return on its invested capital, based on its ~8% stake in Wiz  —  The investment firm will reap about $2.7 billion from the deal, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
Financial Times:
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Donald Trump; many pointed to Amazon losing the $10B JEDI contract during Trump's first term as a watershed moment  —  In the past year, the Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with the president that has surprised even longtime associates
The Guardian:
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods  —  Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems
Reuters:
X sues Narendra Modi's government in New Delhi, saying its IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content  —  India's IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Stockholm-based Rerun, which is building a data stack for “Physical AI” like robots and drones, raised a $17M seed, bringing its total funding to $20.2M  —  As generative AI moves increasingly into the physical world through robotics, vehicles, and drones, the need to map cloud-based AIs …
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

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA journalists, their unions, and Reporters Without Borders sue USAGM, acting CEO Victor Morales, and Kari Lake, alleging their moves to close VOA are unlawful

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Max Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994, has died at the age of 94

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A profile of The New Yorker at 100 and an interview with editor David Remnick, in the post for 27 years, as the magazine navigates “a world of misinformation”

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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
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
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
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
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