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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: r/technology, r/neoliberal, r/eutech, r/wallstreetbets, and r/europeanunion
| 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
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Forums: r/browsers, r/chrome, r/google, r/technology, r/technews, r/technology, and r/singularity
| 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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| 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,” … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
| 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, The Rundown AI, and MarkTechPost
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| 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| 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, Livemint, Android Headlines, and Neowin
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
On the 20th birthday of its first video, YouTube says it has had 20T+ 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.| 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”.| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Cantor's Brandon Lutnick, the son of the US commerce secretary, seeks to form a $3B bitcoin acquisition vehicle with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex — Investment vehicle backed by son of commerce secretary comes as US adopts more favourable policy on digital currency
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Endor Labs, which scans AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, raised a $93M Series B, taking its total funding to $163M, and says it performs 1M+ weekly scans — AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it's also introducing new security challenges.
More: FinSMEs, Developer Tech News, DevOps.com, and Endor Labs
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's new hate speech policies were “announced hastily” in January 2025 and asks Meta to assess the impact on vulnerable users — Meta's Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions …
More: Livemint, Engadget, Oversight Board, UPI, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, BSS, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, and The Hill
| 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.| IWF: |
In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM — Call for Member States to come together and push forward with ‘desperately needed’ child protection laws as thousands …
More: The Guardian, The Independent, The Standard, and IWF
| 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.| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Mantra's CEO begins burning $80M worth of his OM tokens and plans to burn $80M worth from partners, after a 90% collapse on April 13 erased $5B+ in market value — The tokens are part of John Mullin's team allocation that were staked when the network first started in October 2024. — What to know:
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X: @stakecito, @mantra_chain, @rahul_2503, @cpofficialtx, and @chaingptai
| 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
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| Chris Miller / Financial Times: |
Trump's chip tariffs may lead to even more overseas manufacturing to offset costs, not creating self-sufficiency; the US should focus on China's chip subsidies — A component levy on foreign-made semiconductors would function as a major tax increase on electronics sold in America| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A — A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world's first super app that is designed to help people better understand and take care of their health.
More: Australian Financial Review, Forbes, SmartCompany, and Forerunner
X: @j__cub, @superpower, @shaheersan, @mashadrokova, @paytonarriaga, @adnmurphy, @maxmarchione, @sachin_shah_, @eurie_kim, @karine_hsu, @mollysoshea, @forerunnervc, @gettinyhealth, @rominaramon, @tnoakesmith, @nmashchenko_, @menemazarakis, @erica_wenger, @kevinunkrich, @shaanvp, @kirstenagreen, and @chadbyers
| Ryan Broderick / Wired: |
A week after a hack, 4chan remains down, apparently pushed off the internet by rival hackers; its toxic legacy carries on across social platforms and culture — It's likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.
Bluesky: @davidgilbert and @sesmith.lol. Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange. Forums: r/technology
| 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?| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku updates its $30 Streaming Stick and $40 Streaming Stick Plus, saying they are “the most compact sticks on the market”, and unveils new software updates — The company also introduced a pair of battery-powered smart home cameras, new Roku OS software features, and more.
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| Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal: |
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