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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: after closing several video game studios, Microsoft plans more cuts, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division  —  Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Town hall: Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty discussed wanting small and prestigious games, after closing the studio behind small, prestigious hit Hi-Fi Rush  —  Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Dell warns customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data for ~49M customers, but says financial and payment data was not stolen  —  Dell is warning customers of a data breach, after a threat actor claimed to have stolen information for approximately 49 million customers.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs  —  - Company puts Mac-grade chips in data centers for fall launch  — Apple to offer features using on-device and cloud approaches
Wall Street Journal:
In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out  —  Amount of data captured from the device declined, although the patient and the Elon Musk-owned company still staged a successful demonstration
Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”  —  The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives
Wall Street Journal:
Binance sources and docs: an internal investigator, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of secret internal trading accounts and DWF Labs' market manipulation  —  Former company insiders say the firing of an internal investigator showed that the crypto exchange neglected evidence of market manipulation.
Financial Times:
TikTok plans to start automatically labeling some AI content, including from DALL-E and Adobe's Firefly, and joins the Adobe-led content credentials coalition  —  Social media companies under pressure to identify deepfakes and prevent spread of misinformation
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
As part of its Model Spec release, OpenAI says it is considering letting developers and users “responsibly” generate “NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts”  —  Critics say ChatGPT creator's proposal to allow erotica, slurs and other adult content undermines its mission statement
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI publishes Model Spec, which specifies how its AI models should act, including objectives, rules, and default behaviors, and asks the public for feedback
Mike Solana:
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more  —  jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever …
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Google got Gemini image generation wrong, the future of search, layoffs, and more  —  In this episode of The Circuit with Emily Chang, the Alphabet CEO explains how he's in it for the long haul—and won't dance to anyone else's tune.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos responds to criticism of its app redesign, saying it takes “courage to rebuild” and that it's working to reintroduce missing features in the coming months  —  In the days since, customers have complained about missing features like sleep timers, broken local music library management …
Nectar Gan / CNN:
Baidu's PR chief Qu Jing reportedly left the company after criticism over her Douyin videos demanding that workers must be available 24 hours a day  —  Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world.
The Information:
Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025  —  Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor …
Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News:
Huawei Pura 70 Pro teardown: most of its chips are designed and manufactured in China, and the 7nm Kirin 9010 is only marginally better than the Kirin 9000S  —  Huawei released the Pura 70 line of smartphones in April 2024 and it's already made a bit of a stir.

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Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
Gaza Health Ministry says five journalists working for Reuters, AP, Al-Jazeera, and others were among at least 20 killed in an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox warns customers that Fox News and other channels could be pulled from YouTube TV “unless Google engages in a meaningful way soon” in a carriage dispute

Swati Pandey / Bloomberg:
President Trump says he would support the FCC revoking NBC and ABC's station licenses and calls them “two of the worst and most biased networks in history”

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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $801M, bookings up 19% YoY to $923M, DAUs up 17% YoY to 77.7M, and cuts its full-year bookings forecast; RBLX drops 30%
Nicholas Yong / Rest of World:
Some Singaporean writers resist the government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and other issues

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James Thomason / VentureBeat:
RunPod, which offers a globally distributed GPU cloud platform for developing and deploying AI, raised a $20M seed co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies
Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware:
A Stack Overflow user says the site suspended his account for a week after he altered his posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to use data for AI training
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come
Pratik Jain / Reuters:
US hospital operator Ascension reports disruptions to its clinical operations due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and engages Mandiant to help investigate
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Tim Cook's potential successors; sources say hardware engineering chief John Ternus is the most likely successor, and Cook could stay on until 2027
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