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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella says 20% to 30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was AI-written, and Microsoft was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta debuts the Llama API for fine-tuning and evaluating the performance of its Llama models, available in limited preview with pricing yet to be announced
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Meta plans to add cloud-based AI features to WhatsApp, like message summarization and composition, using Private Processing so the data is inaccessible to Meta
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says GPT-4o's latest update is “now 100% rolled back” for free ChatGPT users and is rolling back for paid users, in a bid to fix the model's sycophancy  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …
Financial Times:
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US to court if necessary to protect European customers' “continuity of access” to its services  —  Tech group says it would sue to keep European access to crucial cloud services  —  Microsoft's top legal officer …
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3  —  The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing  —  Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
EA says it laid off staff and canceled “two early-stage incubation projects”; sources say EA cut 300 to 400 roles and its Respawn unit canceled a Titanfall game  —  The video-game publisher cuts between 300 and 400 jobs  —  Electronic Arts Inc. is laying off hundreds of workers …
Reuters:
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$55.4B, operating profit up 1.2% YoY to ~$4.68B, and chip division operating profit down 42% YoY to ~$770M  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) reported on Wednesday a small rise in first-quarter operating profit as customers concerned about U.S. tariffs rushed …
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg:
TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site  —  The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple reorganizes its global affairs unit, including management of the government teams for Europe and Asia, and Apple Music's leadership structure  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says the DOJ's proposal to share Google search data with rivals amounts to a “de facto” spinoff of Google's search engine and its IP
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles  —  Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service  —  A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.
Mathieu Pollet / Politico:
Doc: the EU's draft International Digital Strategy, set for June 4, acknowledges that decoupling from US tech is “unrealistic” and calls for strategic alliances  —  The European Union is set to admit that untangling from the dominance of U.S. tech companies is “unrealistic” …
More: Bloomberg.  Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @katjabego, and @elinorcarmi.  Forums: r/eutech
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: Google Play now hosts ~1.8M Android apps, down 47% from ~3.4M at the start of 2024, likely due to raising minimum quality requirements in July 2024  —  Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps.  —  From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …
Martin Young / Cointelegraph:
Filing: PayPal discloses that the US SEC said in February 2025 that it was closing its investigation into the PayPal USD stablecoin “without enforcement action”  —  PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant's US-dollar stablecoin.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Grindr rolls out A-List, powered by Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Amazon Bedrock, to curate “meaningful past connections, high-potential matches” and chat summaries  —  The LGBTQ dating brand is rolling out a feature from its product roadmap called “A-List,” an automatically curated list that surfaces …

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New York Times:
Sources: the White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

The Guardian:
Christopher Nolan says there's a “disdain” for AI, the idea that it “replaces” human creativity is “nonsense”, and he expects it to be useful in “imaging tools”

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Online graphic design platform Freepik releases F Lite, a ~10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into three tiers to determine how many AI chips a country can obtain
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., and $0.29 to $0.31 EPS, vs. $0.54 est., lower than past guidance; SMCI drops 19%+
CNBC:
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., $2.96 ARPU, vs. $2.93 est., and 460M DAUs, but declines to provide Q2 guidance; SNAP drops 13%+
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