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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems  —  The Facebook and Instagram parent is partnering with Anduril Industries to develop combat VR headsets for the Army
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that struck down most of President Trump's tariffs  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices  — News Tips
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: the US SEC voluntarily dismissed its 2023 lawsuit against Binance and CZ that accused them of diverting customer funds, misleading investors, and more  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a Thursday court filing shows.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft has sidelined its native Xbox handheld to focus on improving Windows 11 gaming performance for devices like the Asus model debuting in 2025  —  Xbox's handheld ambitions continue unabated, but the focus is shifting towards improving Windows 11 for third-party handhelds — for now.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs  —  Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite …
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says its R1 update can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, and comes close to o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro  —  The Chinese startup DeepSeek said Thursday that its upgraded artificial-intelligence model can perform mathematics, programming …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Like its predecessor, DeepSeek-R1-0528 has an MIT License and model weights are on Hugging Face; DeepSeek API users will get to use the model at no extra cost
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users  —  Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts  —  YouTube announced on Thursday that it's bringing Google Lens to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks.  With this integration, viewers will soon be able …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $23.38B, vs. $23.14B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., and raises its FY 2026 profit forecast on demand for AI systems  —  Shares of Dell Technologies rose on Thursday in extended trading after the company raised its full-year earnings forecast …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Job postings: Amazon has a new ZeroOne team focused on inventing “breakthrough” consumer products, and led by former Microsoft executive J Allard  —  Amazon's devices unit has a new team tasked with inventing “breakthrough” consumer products that's being led by a former Microsoft executive who helped create the Xbox.
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Grammarly raised $1B in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst to expand its AI tools; 2005-founded Grammarly has $700M+ in annual revenue and is profitable  —  Grammarly has raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) …
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025  —  AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products  —  A high-profile lawsuit between two rival lifestyle and shopping influencers would have rewritten copyright law and changed the creator industry.
New York Times:
The New York Times agrees to license editorial content to Amazon for use in its AI platforms, marking NYT's first licensing deal with a focus on generative AI  —  In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.  Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
An Apple-funded study says the US App Store drove $406B in 2024 billings and sales, up from $142B in 2019, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales  —  Perhaps to fight off the ire of legislators worldwide about App Store fees, Apple says that it has grown the global economy …

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation suit against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, and others after WSJ wrote an article saying Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter

Peter White / Deadline:
CBS says The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is ending in May 2026 and that this was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night”

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A look at GOP efforts to cut NPR and PBS funding, dating back to Nixon; the cuts succeeded now due to Trump's grip on the GOP and the increase in media sources

More News

Jennifer Young / Windows Central:
Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Victoria's Secret replaces its website with a message saying “we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident”, and closes some store services

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by US companies leaving China and Huawei has become “quite formidable”
Wall Street Journal:
Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but it takes tedious work to get scene consistency
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
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