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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA  —  OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced …
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, vs. $863M est., and raises 2025 sales guidance to $3.9B; PLTR falls 8%+ after hours  —  The company described rising demand for artificial intelligence software as a “ravenous whirlwind,” and bumped its 2025 revenue forecast to about $3.9 billion from about $3.75 billion.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
TeleMessage's parent company says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and has suspended all of its services “out of an abundance of caution”  —  The messaging app that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor was seen using during …
Micah Lee / micahflee:
A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
A look at Waymo's Mesa, AZ plant, producing several retrofitted Jaguars per day and where plans to scale up with Chinese Zeekr vans may be derailed by tariffs  —  An exclusive look inside the facility turning Jaguar EVs into robotaxis with the AI-driven fleet's custom computing system, cameras, lidar and radar.
Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling that prevents it from charging devs fees on purchases made outside the App Store  —  Epic Games' stunning victory blocks Apple from imposing fees on purchases made outside the App Store.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Researchers warn that open-source Go serialization tool easyjson, owned by Russia's VK Group and used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk  —  The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies.  But its ties to Russia's VK …
More: Hunted Labs.  Bluesky: @andyjabbour.  Mastodon: @eob@social.coop.  X: @780thc.  LinkedIn: George Barnes.  Forums: r/cybersecurity
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user's sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans  —  Meta's chatbot remembers everything, even what you might not want it to.  —  Mark Zuckerberg has a new way to invade your privacy: a creepier version of ChatGPT.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Trump has two crypto-focused dinners this month, for political donors and for $TRUMP holders; Chainalysis: trading fees alone have made $TRUMP insiders $324M+  —  President Donald Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires.
Reuters:
Tel Aviv-based eToro Group says it's targeting a $4B valuation in a Nasdaq IPO, aiming to raise $500M, after pausing plans last month amid market volatility  —  Israel's eToro Group said on Monday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4 billion in its initial public offering in the United States …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues
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The internet's biggest deepfake porn site, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down because a “critical service provider has terminated service permanently”
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