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Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law:
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent  —  Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans' personal location …
Financial Times:
The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt  —  HMRC has stopped demanding ridesharing company pay VAT on the full cost of rides after legal setback in related matter
Ben Bergman / Business Insider:
Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D  —  - AI21 Labs is raising a $300 million Series D funding round to build its own LLMs.  — It aims to reduce hallucinations in generative AI, which would enhance reliability for companies.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April  —  OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises' AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations  —  Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have.
Lauren Kent / CNN:
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution  —  Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC:
President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US  —  Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says.
Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech:
The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief  —  FDA Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning Biotech  —  The FDA has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer …

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: Paramount and state AGs agree to freeze the WBD merger until an antitrust trial occurs or until June 2027; a preliminary injunction hearing is canceled

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
At the rescheduled WHCA dinner, Trump praised the press corps' response to the April shooting before insulting journalists and celebrities who criticized him

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
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