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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: |
Tim Sweeney says Epic plans to submit Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week and offers a “peace proposal” to end all litigation over App Store policies — Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that the company will submit Fortnite to the iOS App Store in the U.S. next week.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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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 …
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| 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%+ — Microsoft shares rose about 9% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results … | Reuters: |
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft says GitHub Copilot has 15M+ users, up 4x YoY; GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says its code review agent, launched in April, has handled 8M+ pull requests — As part of today's earnings report, Microsoft revealed that GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users, thanks to 4x growth year-over-year (YOY).| 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
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released in 2024, 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.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those generated by the app using natural language text prompts — After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.
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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 …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops — Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn't taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad.
More: Qwen on Hugging Face and MarkTechPost
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos, and costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $12.50 per 1M output tokens, available in Bedrock — Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier.| 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 … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
World's WLD launches in most of the US, including on Coinbase, starting this week, as Tools for Humanity debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning — After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Adani Group pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor on a $10B chip project in Maharashtra, India, due to uncertainty over potential demand — Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's group has paused discussions with Israel's Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) for a $10 billion chip project … | 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%+ — Revenue in the period ending in June will be $9.9 billion to $10.7 billion, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
More: CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, and Reuters
| 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, replaced by Peggy Alford — 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 …
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