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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases  —  US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
HPE reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $7.85B, vs. $7.82B est., Q2 and FY 2025 guidance below est., and plans to cut ~2,500 employees; HPE drops 20%+ after hours  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares slid 19% in extended trading on Thursday as the data center equipment maker issued quarterly …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers  —  The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex …
CoinDesk:
In a Tucker Carlson interview, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP in the lead-up to his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing  —  Between his recent social posts referring to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an interview with The New York Sun …
NewsGuard's Reality Check:
An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time  —  An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
The US State Department says it will use AI to review social media accounts to revoke visas of students who seem to support designated terror groups like Hamas  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman says that for 25% of the W25 batch, 95%+ of their codebases are AI generated, not including code like for importing libraries  —  With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code.
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Broadcom Q1: revenue up 25% YoY to $14.92B, vs. $14.61B est., net income up 315% YoY to $5.5B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AVGO jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Broadcom (AVGO.O) on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on strong demand …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that uses optical character recognition to turn complex PDF documents into Markdown files ready for LLM training  —  On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display  —  Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple is developing an updated C1 modem chip for mass production in 2026 with mmWave support and improved power consumption and transmission speed
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Reddit adds tools like Post Insights, Post Recovery, and Post Check, which helps users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules  —  The website will now also suggest appropriate communities for your post.  —  Reddit has announced several new tools that seem …
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet and Sundar Pichai as part of its investigation into alleged censorship under the Biden administration  —  The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet Inc. and its CEO Sundar Pichai as part of its ongoing investigation …
Angela Christy / Reuters:
CoreWeave denies an FT report that Microsoft withdrew from some of its agreements ahead of CoreWeave's IPO, saying “there have been no contract cancellations”  —  IPO-bound AI cloud startup CoreWeave said on Thursday it had not seen any contract cancellations after the Financial Times reported …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
1Password now lets users add specific physical locations to passwords and other items, which then appear in its mobile app when the user is near those locations  —  You can now add a location for passwords and other items saved in 1Password. … 1Password introduced a new feature today …

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Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets

More News

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: longtime Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes is leading a shake-up of the Chips Program Office, which administers billions in semiconductor subsidies
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time

Earlier Picks

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI
Forbes:
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search
Ira Alok Puranik / The Economic Times:
India's Income Tax Bill 2025 gives income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' accounts like email and social media if they suspect tax evasion
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases open-source reasoning model QwQ-32B on Hugging Face and ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to DeepSeek-R1 but with lower compute needs
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils AI agents Sales Agent and Sales Chat that connect to Dynamics 365 business apps and Salesforce, available in public preview from May 2025
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers
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