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May 1, 2025, 4:15 AM

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Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
A US judge rules Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to outside payment options, and refers the case for a criminal contempt investigation  —  Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $70.1B vs. $68.42B est., Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 11%, forecasts Q4 revenue above est.  —  Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Third Quarter Results  —  REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Reuters:
Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta increases its 2025 capital expenditures to be in the range of $64B to $72B, up from its prior outlook of $60B to $65B; META jumps 5%+  —  Meta shares rose as much as 5% Wednesday after the company reported stronger-than-expected revenue in the first quarter and provided second-quarter guidance …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The Verge:
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai said Google expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by mid-2025 and Tim Cook told him Apple plans to add more AI models this year  —  Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company plans to roll out its Gemini integration by the end of this year.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn specific phrases in a new language, sound less formal, and more  —  Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena  —  A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: about a month ago, Tesla board members opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the current status of the succession planning is not clear  —  With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license  —  JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding.
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo:
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight  —  In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's.  —  Egg-headed venture capitalist …
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner  —  Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Duolingo launches 148 new language courses developed with generative AI, doubling its offerings for non-English speakers within a year, as it aims for 1B+ users  —  On Wednesday, Duolingo signaled that approach is helping to rapidly expand its language-learning courses …

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