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| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules Apple violated a court order in Epic's case to open the App Store to outside payment options, and refers Apple for a criminal contempt probe — Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
More: Bloomberg Law, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, United States District Court Northern District of California, CNBC, and Reuters
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Thurrott, Axios, Windows Central, Financial Times, Neowin, Tech4Gamers, Yahoo Finance, and Eurogamer.net
Threads: @mgsiegler. X: @satyanadella, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @thetranscript_, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @satyanadella, @kobeissiletter, @morningbrew, and @unusual_whales. LinkedIn: Marc Reguera
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft reports Q3 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 33%, above est., and forecasts Q4 Azure growth also above estimates; MSFT jumps 7%+ after hours — Microsoft shares rose about 9% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, and Quartz
| 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.
More: New York Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Shacknews, Reuters, and Reuters
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: The Verge and Shacknews
Bluesky: @markduffy.sh and @hypervisible
Threads: @sdw, @carnage4life, @shwetak.ai, and @crumbler
| 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.
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Bluesky: @markgurman and @parkerortolani.com
| 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 — - Alphabet CEO testifies as part of Justice Department lawsuit — Rivals could reverse-engineer ‘every aspect of our technology’
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Forums: r/apple and r/technews
| 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 …
More: Microsoft, Politico, ai fray, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, Atlantic Council, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @pieterhaeck, @simonpetersen.net, @katjabego, and @parismarx.com. Mastodon: @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
X: @privacymatters, @benjaminbjerre, and @bradsmi
| 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 …
More: Duolingo, Inc., TechCrunch, The Verge, Digital Trends, Benzinga, UPI, Neowin, Mashable, WPXI-TV, The Decoder, ZDNET, Freelance Informer, and WinBuzzer. LinkedIn: Luis von Ahn
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 4, benchmarks, AI friends, DeepSeek, China, export controls, open source, monetizing AGI, aligning with Trump, and more — Zuck on: — Llama 4, benchmark gaming, open vs closed — Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| 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 …
Bluesky: @nzkoz, @caseynewton, @normal-form, @alajon, @ryanparker.xyz, @jwmckenzie, @artison, @oldbk, @keblaster, @illuminatus, @davidarch, @wilkos, @jedgeco, @balbrecht, @noupside, @doctor-multiverse.com, and @jakeekiss
X: @texas_libtard, @lib_crusher, @transjesster, @kevinroose, @gao_ag, @loganbartlett, @nikhil_palsingh, @biedersam, @thegpatty, @drmistercody, @chaykak, @dylanmatt, @bigblackjacobin, @bennpeifert, @object_zero_, @summeroffilm, @secretcfo, @robinsonmeyer, @ns123abc, @jolyonklebold, @vitrupo, and @vcbrags. Forums: r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more — Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it's not replacing the Wikipedia community …
More: Wikimedia Foundation, MakeUseOf, Neowin, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @wikimediafoundation.org and @chrisalbon.com
Forums: r/wikipedia and Slashdot
| Bloomberg Tax: |
Sources: Ripple has proposed a takeover of Circle for $4B to $5B, a bid that was rejected as too low; Ripple remains interested in Circle — Ripple has proposed a takeover of rival stablecoin provider Circle Internet Group Inc. for $4 billion to $5 billion, a bid that was rejected as too low …
More: The Information, Blockchain News, Decrypt, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, The Crypto Times, Crypto Briefing, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, BeInCrypto, and crypto.news
Bluesky: @davemurphy. X: @matthew_sigel, @twobitidiot, @wublockchain, @sytaylor, @johnedeaton1, and @tier10k
| 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
More: Hugging Face, TechCrunch, Synced, and Tech in Asia
Bluesky: @vergauwensimon. X: @openrouterai, @xanderatallah, @devgerred, @zhs05232838, @ns123abc, @dorialexander, @sino_market, and @angrytomtweets
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/DeepSeek
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Intel EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell is resigning “in order to pursue another career opportunity” after joining in February 2022 — Christoph Schell, Intel's EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after a two-year stint, according to a filing with the SEC.| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.59B vs. $2.55B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; CFO Steve Priest to step down in May, with Peggy Alford succeeding — E-commerce firm eBay (EBAY.O) said on Wednesday that its Chief Financial Officer Steve Priest will step down in May and will be replaced …
More: Wall Street Journal, eBay Inc., Reuters, and eBay Inc.
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Visa announces Visa Intelligent Commerce, opening its payment network to developers building AI agents to find and buy products for users — AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding — even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network …
More: Finextra, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Information, Visa Inc, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, and Visa Inc
| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
More: The Block, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, Business Wire, CoinDesk, NFTgators, Reuters, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and CoinGape
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.6B est., handsets revenue up 12%, forecasts Q3 revenue slightly below est.; QCOM drops 5%+ after hours — 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.| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 50% YoY to $927M, vs. $920.1M est., crypto transaction revenue up 100% to $252M, increases share buyback authorization by $500M — The trading platform's results could give an indication for Coinbase's earnings on May 8. — What to know:| Financial Times: |
Sources: Shein is exploring ways to restructure its US business if Trump sticks with punitive tariffs on Chinese imports; the de minimis exemption ends on May 2 — Fast-fashion company searches for workarounds as Trump's trade war endangers operations in its most important market
More: The Guardian, Reuters, Axios, The Economist, and PYMNTS.com
| 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 …
More: Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Gizchina.com, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, XiaomiTime, South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
Bluesky: @sungkim. X: @bgurley, @jagersbergknut, @_akhaliq, @gm8xx8, @sino_market, and @adinayakup. Forums: Hacker News
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