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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing  —  - The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google  — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015  —  - Report reassures investors about its prospects with AI  — Google parent already twice breached level on intraday basis
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon  —  - Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents  — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats
Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business  —  U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat.  Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company …
Andy Edser / PC Gamer:
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub  —  Fond memories of beige machines.  —  Ah, the PC in the spare room.  Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games.
Jonathan Ford / Financial Times:
A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful  —  Dana Mattioli's important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills  —  Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google said on Friday it would invest $3 billion to set up a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.
Nikkei Asia:
Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US”  —  Search engine giant ‘serious’ about beefing up equipment and software ecosystem
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in  —  A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening …
The Baltimore Banner:
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments  —  Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School's former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with crimes related …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action  —  Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers  —  New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.  —  A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling …

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CNN:
Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

More News

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500's worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company's missteps
Nikkei Asia:
Apple's latest supplier list shows the challenges the company is facing in diversifying its supply chain, as its Chinese suppliers grew from 48 to 52 in 2023
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China's muted response to TikTok bill reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value than Huawei; China prefers TikTok US closure to sale
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
The NHTSA finds that Tesla's driver-assist features insufficiently keep drivers engaged in the task of driving, and links them to 100+ crashes and 10+ deaths

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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after a 404 Media probe found the apps advertised being able to create nonconsensual nude images
Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The EU Commission says Shein will have to comply with DSA rules for handling content on its platform from August 2024, as the retailer has 45M+ users in the EU
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect
CoinDesk:
Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the agency's “unlawful seizure of authority over ETH”, after getting a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product
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