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Apple Inc.:
Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.66B est., net income up 5% YoY to $24.78B, and China net sales down 2% YoY to $16B  —  Services revenue reaches new all-time high  —  EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2: iPhone up 2% YoY to $46.84B, vs. $45.84B est., Mac up 7% to $7.95B, iPad up 15% to $6.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 5% to $7.52B  —  Apple reported second fiscal-quarter earnings Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, but the company's closely-watched Services division came up light versus estimates.
Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
A US judge rules that Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to third-party payment options, and refers the case for a criminal 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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Threads: @benedictevans, @timothybucksf, and @eric_seufert
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Forums: r/LinusTechTips, r/atrioc, r/GeForceNOW, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/iphone, r/applesucks, r/technews, and r/apple
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Epic Games says it will take a 0% store fee from developers on their first $1M in revenue per app per year, and plans to let developers open their own webshops  —  Less than 24 hours after Apple's legal defeat over its App Store model, Epic Games is wasting no time.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Tim Sweeney says Epic plans to submit Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week and “puts forth a peace proposal” to end all litigation over App Store policies
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft raises the prices of its Xbox Series S and X consoles, Xbox controllers, and some new Xbox games globally; the consoles are priced $80 to $100 more  —  New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google says “a small percentage” of Search users in the US will start seeing an AI Mode chatbot tab “in the coming weeks”; AI Mode uses Google's search index  —  An AI Mode tab will soon start appearing in Search for a handful of US users.
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Google begins showing AdSense ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources say Google tested the ads in 2024 with startups, like AI search apps iAsk and Liner
Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC:
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling “tall tales” after the startup argued for tighter export controls by saying China is smuggling chips in “prosthetic baby bumps”  —  Nvidia blasted Anthropic Thursday in a rare public clash over artificial intelligence policy with U.S. chip export restrictions set to take effect.
Lindsay Clark / The Register:
Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model  —  New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers  —  Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name …
More: antirez.com, Redis, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @cra.dev.  Mastodon: @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz.  X: @simonw and @antirez.  LinkedIn: Michel Tu
Forums: r/programming, r/linux, and r/opensource
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Meta updated Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses' privacy policy on April 29 to enable the Hey Meta voice command by default, store voice recordings for a year, and more  —  The company has removed the option to disable your voice recordings from being stored, among other changes.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO  —  The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president's executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Polygon staff, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games publication has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet  —  One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up  —  The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: about a month ago, Tesla's board opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the succession planning status is unknown, but Tesla denied the report  —  With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users  —  Anthropic on Thursday launched a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded “deep research” …
More: Anthropic and AI News.  Forums: Hacker News
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more  —  An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
London's Court of Appeal rules Apple must pay Optis $502M as a lump sum for using Optis' 4G patents from 2013 to 2027, overturning a 2023 High Court decision  —  Apple (AAPL.O) must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads …
John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine:
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields  —  Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language.  Then came the transformer. sking scientists …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Pinterest rolls out an “AI modified” label globally to indicate AI-generated or AI-edited images, identified via metadata analysis and its own AI classifiers  —  AI labels are coming to a platform that sorely needed them. … Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform.
More: Pinterest and Engadget

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