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May 6, 2025, 5:00 AM
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs  —  OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI's restructuring, seeking assurance that changes will protect its $13.75B investment  —  After months of public pressure, OpenAI walked back part of its effort to create a more conventional for-profit company …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
TeleMessage parent company Smarsh says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and 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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI reaches an agreement to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; the deal has not yet closed  —  OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion …
Financial Times:
DoorDash agrees to acquire UK food delivery company Deliveroo in a £2.9B cash deal; Deliveroo has struggled since its London IPO in March 2021  —  Takeover comes after UK company has struggled since going public four years ago  —  DoorDash has agreed to buy UK food delivery company Deliveroo …
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%+  —  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.
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, which makes a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for ~$1B  —  An Upstarts paid subscriber special edition: acquisition-hungry data and AI unicorn Databricks is in advanced talks to buy the startup behind …
Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling to stop it from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store  —  Epic Games' stunning victory blocks Apple from imposing fees on purchases made outside the App Store.
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
A look at Waymo's Mesa, Arizona plant, producing several retrofitted Jaguars per day, and where tariffs may derail plans to scale up with Chinese Zeekr vans  —  An exclusive look inside the facility turning Jaguar EVs into robotaxis with the AI-driven fleet's custom computing system, cameras, lidar and radar.
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.

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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

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
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Reuters:
Tel Aviv-based eToro Group says it is targeting a $4B valuation in a Nasdaq IPO, aiming to raise $500M, after pausing plans in April due to market volatility
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
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
More: Hunted Labs.  Bluesky: @andyjabbour.  Mastodon: @eob@social.coop.  X: @780thc.  LinkedIn: George Barnes.  Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/geopolitics
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that supports USDT and Bitcoin payments with no API keys or a central point of failure
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