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May 3, 2026, 4:15 PM
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Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:
Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google  —  “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com.
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. 50-55% for triage doctors  —  Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’  —  From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle …
Chavie Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala  —  The Amazon founder and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have become front-row fixtures through business expansion and charitable giving
Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI  —  The list of Asian stocks that benefit from business partnership with Nvidia Corp. is getting longer, as the region further integrates …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2  —  Higher memory chip costs fuel fears of price rise for Switch 2 and cast shadow over console's success  —  The latest Super Mario movie released …
NIST:
An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date  —  In April 2026, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) evaluated the open-weight AI model DeepSeek V4 Pro ("DeepSeek V4").
Reuters:
Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions  —  Two brothers from the elite Kharrazi family, using an alternative surname, started up Nobitex in 2018.
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue  —  John Wall has spent nearly his entire career working for the same company.  And when he tells people where he works, nobody has any clue what he's talking about.

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Zoe Engels / Mediaite:
Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026

Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination

Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M

More News

Victor Swezey / Bloomberg:
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025
Bloomberg:
A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player “whales” spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms
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Earlier Picks

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A group sympathetic to Iran claims responsibility for DDoS attacks on Ubuntu and its parent Canonical, hampering communications about the CopyFail vulnerability
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