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| Wall Street Journal: |
The European Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA and issues cease-and-desist orders to both companies; Apple and Meta say they will appeal — Fines come as European officials pursue trade talks with the Trump administration — BRUSSELS—The European Union fined Apple …
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Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social, and @jwildeboer@social …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/berlin_public, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/eutech, r/wallstreetbets, r/theprimeagen, r/europeanunion, and Slashdot
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Discord CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be succeeded by Humam Sakhnini, effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and serve as a CEO advisor — Jason Citron is stepping down as CEO of Discord and he has hired game veteran Humam Sakhnini as the new CEO.
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X: @lucas_shaw, @suhail, @cecianasta, @jasoncitron, and @pimdewitte
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/technology, and r/discordapp
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: a Perplexity executive says Google's contract with Motorola blocked Perplexity from being the default AI assistant on new Motorola devices — - AI startup's app will be preloaded on new Motorola phones — Company in negotiations with another smartphone maker| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: OpenAI's ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off — OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said in a court hearing Tuesday.
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Threads: @firerock31 and @kris_walker
X: @jason_kint, @dacemoglumit, @skygodkingdom, @relegoai, @pat_hedger, @vramm17, @mulka, @horsieattack, @signulll, @megangra, and @brianroemmele. LinkedIn: Lorenzo Thione
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/technology, r/theprimeagen, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
On the 20th birthday of its first video, YouTube says it has had 20B+ uploads, including 20M+ daily now, and unveils app and TV updates, including new Multiview — YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday with a number of stats, while previewing new features that are coming this year.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it is opening Threads to all advertisers worldwide, but ads will only appear in select markets at launch, after testing ads in the US and others — Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app …
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Analysis: three X users who used to receive hundreds of thousands of views daily have seen their reach collapse after feuding with Elon Musk in December 2024 — Note: Five-day moving average. Views are only shown up to 400,000. Source: X — When Mr. Musk purchased X in 2022 …
More: New Republic and The Independent
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Forums: r/Twitter, r/skeptic, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, and r/politics
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out live translations and other AI features to all Ray-Ban smart glasses, unveils new color lens combos, and plans an India, Mexico, and UAE debut — The Ray-Ban Meta Skyler frames are also now available in shiny chalky gray with sapphire Transitions lenses.| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
WhatsApp rolls out Advanced Chat Privacy, a new opt-in tool to block participants from sharing the contents of a conversation in traditional chats and groups — The opt-in setting will also stop the auto-downloading of media and AI integration. — WhatsApp is introducing … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Intel is set to unveil plans this week to cut 20%+ of staff, its first major restructuring under Lip-Bu Tan; Intel had 108,900 workers in December 2024 — Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker …
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Forums: r/Portland, r/AMD_Stock, r/Columbus, r/intel, r/Semiconductors, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens — OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API …
More: TechRadar, OpenAI, The Economic Times, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Decoder, Neowin, BGR, implicator.ai, and Maginative
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding” — A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …
More: Nari on GitHub. X: @_doyeob_, @cocktailpeanut, @emollick, @donpark, @brianroemmele, @deedydas, @_doyeob_, and @_doyeob_
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Documents: OpenAI told investors it expects revenues of $125B in 2029 and $174B in 2030, with sales from agents and other products exceeding those from ChatGPT — For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI's cash cow. But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential … | Financial Times: |
Cantor's Brandon Lutnick, the son of the US commerce secretary, Tether, Bitfinex, and SoftBank form Twenty One Capital, a $3.6B bitcoin acquisition vehicle — Vehicle backed by son of US commerce secretary comes as investors hope for more favourable policy on digital currency
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia updates its G-Assist AI chatbot, offering plugin and API support to let developers connect to external services and tools, such as Spotify and Gemini — G-Assist is moving beyond just improving PC gaming, to controlling more apps and services.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Geoffrey Hinton, other AI experts, and 10 former OpenAI staff write to the CA and DE AGs opposing OpenAI's for-profit restructure, echoing Elon Musk's concerns — Former employees and figures such as Geoffrey Hinton warn of dangers of allowing start-up to make corporate switch| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon's Project Kuiper has completed just a few dozen satellites so far, far below the pace needed to reach the FCC's 1,618 deadline by July 2026 — Project Kuiper has completed just a few dozen satellites so far, more than a year into its manufacturing program, according to three people familiar with the situation.
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Information
X: @trengriffin, @mattmday, @mattmday, @sawyermerritt, and @kingtutcap
Forums: r/SpaceXLounge, r/Starlink, r/space, and Slashdot
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, a new AI video generation model in closed beta that animates characters in diverse styles and voices, including human-like and 2D — Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday.
More: Character.AI Blog, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, and Android Headlines
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere has reached ~$300M in ARR and declined an acquisition offer from OpenAI, which now aims to buy rival Windsurf, with $100M in ARR — Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly that it's not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI … | Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets — Speaking on the company's earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”.
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X: @tesla_optimus, @chafkin, @ryantanaka3, and @sawyermerritt
Forums: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/BoycottUnitedStates, and r/NoShitSherlock
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Listen Labs, which uses AI to conduct thousands of voice interviews simultaneously for customer research, raised $27M across a seed and Series A led by Sequoia — Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann, co-founders of Sequoia-backed AI startup Listen Labs (photo courtesy of Listen Labs)
More: Sequoia Capital. X: @pejmannozad, @itsalfredw, @florian_jue, and @ericw. LinkedIn: Sharon Goldman
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches new OpenAI-powered AI agents, Researcher and Analyst, designed to function as digital colleagues, available via its Agent Store — Microsoft announced today a major expansion of its artificial intelligence tools with the “Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release,” …
More: Microsoft 365 Blog, ZDNET, The Verge, Tech Brew, Fast Company, Maginative, The Windows Club, GeekWire, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Satya Nadella
| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive on AMD 2.0: a new sense of urgency, rapid AI software stack progress, a critical talent retention challenge, ROCm lags Nvidia's CUDA, and more — - What's New Since our December AMD Article? — AMD's Culture Shift - A Renewed Sense of Urgency — What Makes CUDA Great?| Bloomberg: |
President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the TRUMP memecoin on May 22, according to the memecoin's website; TRUMP jumps 40%+ — President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the Trump memecoin, the issuers of the cryptocurrency announced on Wednesday.
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/politics
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Nintendo says Switch 2 preorder demand in Japan “far exceeds expectations” and 2.2M applied via a lottery; Nintendo is offering a cheaper, region-locked model — 2.2m people applied to buy, and a “significant number” will be unsuccessful. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
More: The Verge, How-To Geek, Engadget, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Game Developer, VideoGamer, Laptop Mag, Comic Book, The Shortcut, Gameranx, BGR, TheGamer, Reuters, GamingBolt, Dexerto, and Polygon
| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Samsung resumes rolling out One UI 7, per users on Reddit, X, and forums, after pausing it earlier in April, bringing new icons, a new camera UI, and more — - Samsung has resumed the One UI 7 update. — Users in Africa, the US, and several other locales have reported that they received the new software.| Bloomberg: |
Source: Neuralink has begun preliminary discussions to raise about $500M at an $8.5B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: it was valued at $3.5B as of November 2023 — Elon Musk's Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: The Information, Reuters, and Axios
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