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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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Bluesky: @filomenac, @hdijkstra, @bremaininspain.com, @gateklons, and @corporateeurope
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social, and @jwildeboer@social …
X: @jason_kint, @tomvalletti, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @hydrakles, @yannikouts, @andymstone, @lewis_crofts, @epicnewsroom, @lewis_crofts, @timsweeneyepic, @joel_kaplan, @lewis_crofts, @jan_eeckhout, @samuelstolton, @timsweeneyepic, @davekeating, @lewis_crofts, @itifdc, @timsweeneyepic, @hennavirkkunen, @bzamayo, @timsweeneyepic, @samuelstolton, @tomwarren, @eu_competition, @eu_competition, @digitaleu, and @zamaan_qureshi
| Bloomberg: |
President 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
| 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.
More: The Verge, Discord Blog, TechCrunch, PocketGamer.biz, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Bloomberg, Dexerto, PC Gamer, and CNBC
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz and @alexeheath.com
X: @lucas_shaw, @cecianasta, @jasoncitron, @pimdewitte, and @suhail
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/discordapp, and r/technology
| 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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| 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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
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Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @carnage4life, @scripting.com, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
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
| 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: OpenAI, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechRadar, The Decoder, Neowin, BGR, implicator.ai, and Maginative
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.6% YoY to $14.54B, vs. $14.4B est., software revenue up 7% to $6.34B, and maintains its full-year forecast — IBM reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday. The stock slipped 2% in extended trading. — Here's how the company performed:| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Microsoft 365 Copilot with OpenAI-powered AI agents Researcher and Analyst, available via its new Agent Store, AI-powered Search, and more — Microsoft announced today a major expansion of its artificial intelligence tools with the “Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release …
More: Microsoft, ZDNET, The Verge, Maginative, Microsoft, OpenAI, GeekWire, Constellation Research, and Windows Central. LinkedIn: Satya Nadella
| 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
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @kevincollier, @kateconger.com, @jugander, @dgschell, @quinnypig.com, and @noupside
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.| 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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Bluesky: @staffordphilip. X: @juthica, @market_heretic, @jfk_america, @tier10k, @cryptofizzbuzz, @_the_prophet__, @izakaminska, and @antoinegara. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| 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: 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, Proactive, and Axios
| 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
| 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.
More: PCWorld, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Mercury News, PCMag, How-To Geek, MakeUseOf, The Desk, Tom's Guide, Neowin, TechRadar, Roku, CNET, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Bloomberg, The Streamable, The Shortcut, Cord Cutters News, and The Wrap
| 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 … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia announces the general availability of its NeMo platform to build AI agents, supporting Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Phi, Google's Gemma, and Mistral — Nvidia Corp. today announced the general availability of NeMo microservices, a set of tools designed to assist developers …
More: The New Stack, NVIDIA, Techstrong.ai, The Register, Wall Street Journal, and ZDNET
| 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| 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.| 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. X: @trengriffin, @mattmday, @mattmday, @sawyermerritt, and @kingtutcap
Forums: r/SpaceXLounge, r/Starlink, r/space, and Slashdot
| 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
| 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 … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal documents: several Google units have notified remote workers that their jobs will be in jeopardy if they don't show up at the office three days a week — Five years removed from the onset of the Covid pandemic, Google is demanding that some remote employees return to the office … | 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
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