• Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023

• Bloomberg: Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full Self-Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit

• Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared

• Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country

• Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

• Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam

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• Alexander Martin / The Record: The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so

• Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback

• Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season

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• Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta's Oversight Board told some staff last week that their jobs were at risk, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly

• Scott Nover / Fast Company: AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram

• Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave his incorrect birth date

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• New York Times: A look at the rise of Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, two of the most powerful AI executives, who grew up in London and met at Queen Elizabeth's School

• 30 minutes ago Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: SCOTUS rejects an appeal from Elon Musk in his case to overturn an SEC agreement to have a lawyer pre-approve his posts about Tesla, without giving a reason

• Wall Street Journal: US lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill

• Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt

• 30 minutes ago Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: SCOTUS rejects an appeal from Elon Musk in his case to overturn an SEC agreement to have a lawyer pre-approve his posts about Tesla, without giving a reason

• 45 minutes ago Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: The NHTSA investigates Ford's driver assistance system BlueCruise, which was active in two recent crashes that killed multiple people in Texas and Pennsylvania

• 65 minutes ago New York Times: A look at the rise of Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, two of the most powerful AI executives, who grew up in London and met at Queen Elizabeth's School

• 80 minutes ago Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Getir plans to close its quick grocery delivery operations in the US, the UK, and Europe to focus on its home market of Turkey, impacting 6,000+ jobs

• 1½ hours ago Alexander Martin / The Record: The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so

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• 2 hours ago Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam

• 4½ hours ago New York Times: PitchBook: investors have poured $330B into ~26,000 AI and ML startups over the past three years, up 66% on funding to 20,350 AI companies from 2018 to 2020

• 4½ hours ago Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta's Oversight Board told some staff last week that their jobs were at risk, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly

• 5 hours ago Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023

• 5½ hours ago Bloomberg: France makes a non-binding offer to buy some of Atos' operations, including its supercomputer and cyber products, for €700M to €1B, as Atos seeks to raise €1.7B

• 7 hours ago Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

• 7 hours ago Financial Times: An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on online safety, a mass data protection lawsuit against the app in the UK, plans for increasing ad revenue, and more

• 9 hours ago Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave his incorrect birth date

• 9 hours ago Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country

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• 9 hours ago Martin Coulter / Reuters: The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend

• 10 hours ago Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared

• 11 hours ago Bloomberg: Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full Self-Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit

• 12 hours ago Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more