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OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he will remain CEO and focus on research, compute, and safety — Sam shared this message with the company earlier today: — Hi everyone - I have some exciting news to share.
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| Fidji Simo / Instacart Corporate Blog: |
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo tells employees that she is leaving in a couple of months, the new CEO will be a management team member, and she will stay on as Chair — Instacart CEO and Chair Fidji Simo shared the email below with Instacart employees this evening. You can read it in full here:| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Rockstar says its second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer was “captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5, comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes” — The trailer was also captured entirely in-game from a PS5. … A second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI had a surprise drop this week …
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X: @rockstargames and @rockstargames
| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Eddy Cue says Apple is “actively looking at” revamping Safari for AI search, and that in April searches fell for the first time; GOOG dropped 7.5% — Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” reshaping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines …
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| The Keyword: |
Google says it is continuing to see “overall query growth in Search”, including “an increase in total queries coming from Apple's devices and platforms” — We continue to see overall query growth in Search. That includes an increase in total queries coming from Apple's devices and platforms.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Barron's Online, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, WebProNews, and Search Engine Journal
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Nintendo projects Switch 2 sales will reach 15M units for the fiscal year ending March 2026, below 16.8M est., and ~$2.2B in annual operating profit, below est. — What Trump's ‘Golden Dome’ Can Learn From Israeli Air Defenses — An exclusive look at what Israel's upgraded air defense system can …
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| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Nintendo reports FY 2024-25 revenue down 30% YoY to ~$8B, profit down 43% YoY to ~$1.9B, and says the Switch has 128M+ players globally eight years after launch — Japanese video-game maker Nintendo on Thursday reported a 43% decline in profit for the fiscal year through March …
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| Bloomberg: |
The US Commerce Department says it will rescind the Biden-era “AI diffusion rule” to limit AI chip exports from May 15, replacing it “with a much simpler rule” — The Trump administration plans to rescind Biden-era AI chip curbs as part of a broader effort …
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
An interview with curl project founder Daniel Stenberg, who likens “AI slop” in HackerOne submissions to a DDoS attack, echoing Seth Larson and others' concerns — “A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time …
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| Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI staffers met with the FDA and two DOGE associates multiple times in recent weeks to discuss a project called cderGPT, likely for drug evaluation — High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.
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| Washington Post: |
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers defaced the LockBit ransomware gang's dark web affiliate panels, linking to a MySQL database dump with operational data, including 59,975 BTC addresses — The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches web searches API for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, 3.5 Sonnet, and 3.5 Haiku at $10 per 1K searches, giving the models access to up-to-date information — Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple seeks to pause the part of the April 30 Epic v. Apple US court ruling that blocked it from charging App Store commissions on outside transactions — The company is appealing a federal judge's ruling last week in its long-running fight with Epic Games Inc. that the iPhone maker failed … | Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net: |
Palworld developer Pocketpair says a 2024 update was due to “ongoing litigation” and a new update is “yet another compromise”, as it disputes Nintendo's claims — “We... assert the invalidity of the patents in question.” — Palworld developer Pocketpair has released …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Windows Central, Polygon, Destructoid, GamesRadar, Nintendo Life, Push Square, Dexerto, and GoNintendo
X: @palworld_en, @amagicmonkfish, @morphboxsr, and @vamplosion
Forums: r/gaming and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
An IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs finds that only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected ROI over the last few years, and only 16% have scaled enterprise wide — Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far — Only a quarter of AI initiatives have delivered the expected return on investment, according to an IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs.| Financial Times: |
The European Commission is facing pressure from member states, led by Ireland, to require Google, Meta, and others to vet financial ads for potential scams — EU member states push for rule change to make tech groups shoulder responsibility for fraud that costs billions each year| Washington Post: |
Internal messages show how the US State Department, in conjunction with trade talks, pushed nations facing tariffs to clear regulatory hurdles for Starlink — Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in conjunction with trade talks, State Department staffers wrote.
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Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social and @dianshuo@mstdn.io
X: @jstein_wapo, @repcasar, @jstein_wapo, @tcfrankel, @lpolgreen, @samstein, and @joroulette
| Danny Park / The Block: |
The US OCC says banks can buy and sell customers' crypto assets on their behalf and can outsource crypto custody and trade execution services to third parties — - The OCC clarified that national banks are permitted to execute cryptocurrency buy and sell orders on behalf of their customers.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
At Stripe Sessions, the company announced an AI foundation model for payments, plans for stablecoin-powered accounts, a recent migration with Nvidia, and more — Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event.
More: Stripe Documentation, Cointelegraph, The Block, Stripe, The Crypto Times, Bloomberg, Blockhead, Cryptopolitan, Decrypt, crypto.news, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, and Stripe
X: @thegautam and @stripe
| Reuters: |
TPG and Corpay agree to acquire Charlotte, NC-based payment automation software provider AvidXchange for $2.2B, with Corpay investing ~$500M for a 33% stake — Global alternative asset manager TPG (TPG.O) will partner with Corpay (CPAY.N) to buy payments solutions provider AvidXchange … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung plans to launch the Galaxy S25 Edge at a May 12 virtual event at 8pm ET, and reservations for the super-slim device are now open with a $50 credit — After weeks of rumors and an apparent delay, Samsung has just announced a May 12 launch event for the Galaxy S25 Edge and has opened reservations for the device.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Netflix unveils its ChatGPT-powered search that lets users express preferences using natural phrases, rolling out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta — After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the service will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an AI experiment in r/ChangeMyView — Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
AppLovin reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $1.48B, vs. $1.38B est., net income up 144% to $576M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est.; APP jumps 13%+ — AppLovin shares soared as high as 15% in extended trading after the company reported earnings and revenue that beat expectations and announced the sale of its mobile gaming business.| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
| Simon Hill / Wired: |
A look at Silence Speaks, a British startup that has built an AI-powered sign language avatar capable of accurately translating text to British Sign Language — New technology from British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf … Sponsor Posts
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