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Reuters:
The White House says that fines on Apple and Meta by the EU are a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not tolerate  —  The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) by the European Union were a …
European Commission:
The European Commission says that Meta's Facebook Marketplace should no longer be designated under the DMA, citing fewer than 10,000 business users in 2024  —  Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) …
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
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 50%+  —  President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the Trump memecoin, the issuers of the cryptocurrency announced on Wednesday.
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.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Hands-on with Cluely's “cheat on everything” tool: the AI can't intuit what the user needs despite being given prior context and takes long to give a response  —  Tech evangelists have been yammering about “working smarter, not harder” for years.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.6% YoY to $14.54B, vs. $14.4B est., and says DOGE delayed or nixed 15 of its federal contracts; IBM drops 6%+ after hours  —  IBM reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday.  The stock slipped 2% in extended trading.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol  —  Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.
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 …
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:
Court data: Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump signs an EO to boost AI education and workforce training, and establishes an AI education task force led by White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive action to boost artificial intelligence education and workforce training …
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index report, based on a survey of 31,000 people, argues that “Frontier Firms” utilizing agentic AI as digital workers are emerging  —  As enterprises adopt AI agents and digital workers, companies' success may depend on the human-agent ratio and how workflows are managed.
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.
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 …
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 Japan  —  Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to all advertisers worldwide.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving  —  Tesla has started testing its autonomous ride-hail service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area ahead of the company's planned robotaxi launch this summer.
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 …
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 …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Q&A with Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, on a dataset called SHADES designed to test AI models for bias in languages beyond English  —  Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

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Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80%

More News

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Meta's Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women aren't hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its policies in January
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Perplexity's iOS app enables support for the company's conversational AI voice assistant, letting users ask the chatbot to write emails, set reminders, and more
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to ~$12.4B, vs. ~$12.1B est, and operating profit up 158% YoY to ~$5.2B, vs. ~$4.6B est., on demand for its HBM chips
Bloomberg:
TSMC plans to begin production with its A14 fabrication process in 2028 and an intermediary A16 chip process in late 2026
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
More: PYMNTS.com.  Bluesky: @edzitron.com.  X: @bantg, @rick_zullo, @pitdesi, and @emollick.  Forums: Slashdot
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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