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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI — OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
More: MacRumors, OpenAI on YouTube, PhoneArena, and Barron's Online
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @brianmc, @ernie.tedium.co, @stevekovach, @kevinbuist.com, @edzitron.com, and @drewharwell.com. Mastodon: @markgurman@mastodon.social
X: @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, @sama, @bradlightcap, @openai, @pitdesi, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @keachhagey, @mike_matas, @pitdesi, @markgurman, and @mikeisaac
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: New York Times, OpenAI, Axios, The Verge, The Economic Times, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, CNBC, The Wrap, Reuters, Variety, Channel NewsAsia, and Daring Fireball. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Reuters: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans — A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier …
More: The Independent. Bluesky: @raphae.li, @metacurity.com, @stokel, @zachsdorfman, and @micahflee.com
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024 — Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020 — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
More: App Store, 9to5Mac, How-To Geek, CNET, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Shortcut, Bloomberg, Associated Press, CNBC, Daring Fireball, Reuters, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Spyglass, PCMag, Gameranx, Tom's Guide, VideoGamer, PC Guide, Ghacks, Investopedia, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, and Engadget
Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. X: @fortnite, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @donaldmustard, @markrein, @dhh, @timsweeneyepic, @vortexlorefn, @openwebadvocacy, @gergelyorosz, @matthewstoller, @zaidjilani, @vbuckscurrency, @ballmatthew, @hydrakles, @markgurman, @drbarnard, @mgsiegler, @loudmouthjulia, @aaronp613, @rjonesy, @markgurman, @jason_kint, @zollotech, @shiinabr, @aaronp613, and @nickeh30. LinkedIn: Adam Smith
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/FORTnITE, r/FortNiteBR, r/FortNiteBR, and MacRumors Forums
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls “a failure” that spurred Chinese rivals, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% over four years — World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
More: Investor's Business Daily, Business Standard, Tom's Hardware, The Register, Nikkei Asia, New York Times, BBC, Yahoo Finance, PC Gamer, Research & Development World, The Guardian, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Taipei Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Quartz, Silicon UK, en.people.cn, TipRanks Financial, Insider Monkey, TechRadar, Asia Financial, ZeroHedge News, Taiwan News, The Information, NBC News, Fortune, SHINE, Mobile World Live, Business Insider, Cryptopolitan, The Straits Times, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @ft, @brianroemmele, @rnaudbertrand, @jukanlosreve, @theresaafallon, @business, @okaythenme, and @jcmittelstaedt. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online — A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … | MIT Technology Review: |
Analysis: AI's energy consumption is exploding, with data centers' electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
More: PV Tech and Financial Times
Bluesky: @emollick, @davidgerard.co.uk, @caseycrownhart, @helenczerski, and @niallfirth
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/climate, r/ChatGPT, r/technews, Beehaw, and Lobsters
| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold for a profit — We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
More: MacRumors, Beyond Search, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and AppleInsider
| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
In a joint statement, the US, France, Germany, and eight other countries say Russia has stepped up cyber attacks on firms aiding Ukraine, often via Fancy Bear — One of Moscow's most infamous hacker teams is targeting logistics and technology companies supporting Kyiv's war effort. — Listen to the article| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers — At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
More: ZDNET, Regenerator, Laptop Mag, The Daily Upside, TGDaily, Radio Free Mobile, The Rundown AI, TipRanks Financial, Livemint, Android Headlines, Business Standard, and Digit
Bluesky: @caseynewton.mastodon …. X: @deedydas, @joshm, @poojauniyall, @rowancheung, @diesol, @kevinroose, and @ehuanglu. Forums: Hacker News
| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
More: The Verge, The Keyword, HotHardware, Chrome Unboxed, The Verge on YouTube, Android Developers Blog, PhoneArena, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, Tasnim News Agency, Sam Lover, Tech Funding News, TechRadar, Beebom, Stuff, SamMobile, TechEBlog, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Neowin, The Indian Express, Decrypt, and UploadVR
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's planned AI tools use — Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
More: Gizmodo and Windows Central
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft seizes ~2.3K domains globally to disrupt Lumma's malware-as-a-service operation, after finding 394K+ PCs infected by Lumma — Earlier this month, a coordinated disruption action targeting the Lumma malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer operation seized thousands of domains …
More: Microsoft, CyberScoop, GeekWire, Cybersecurity Dive, Connect, protect …, Bitsight, CleanDNS, CyberInsider, and Nextgov/FCW
| Jason Leopold / Bloomberg: |
Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases — Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations …
Bluesky: @kimzetter
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease its drivers' “cognitive load” — Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
More: Volvo, PCMag, HotHardware, 9to5Google, Quartz, InsideEVs, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, EV, KnowTechie, Telematics News, T3, Engadget, and Cryptopolitan. Forums: r/Polestar
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B — AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral.
More: Mistral AI, VentureBeat, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Analytics India Magazine, and All Hands AI on YouTube
X: @sophiamyang, @sophiamyang, @mistralai, and @allhands_ai
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in, and that Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps — Google has revealed that Android Auto is about to get more apps, including wider access to weather apps …
More: Android Developers Blog, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, SammyGuru, TechRadar, Moneycontrol, and Android Police. Forums: r/AndroidAuto
| CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for crypto tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
AI videos from Google's Veo 3, which features synchronized audio as well as crisper, more detailed video, are both impressive and terrifying — If the internet wasn't already full of misinformation and general filler content, Veo 3 is going to take it to an entirely new level.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US — Google on Wednesday detailed its plans to bring ads to AI Mode, the company's AI-powered experience in Google Search.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon issues refunds for returns as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1.1B charge over “some historical customer returns” — Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 … | Bloomberg: |
AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation — An effort that began at UC Berkeley as a way to rank AI models has raised $100 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts' context — Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI:| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, like an overdubbed foreign language speaker on the news — New AI speech translation in Google Meet video chats can mimic the speaker's voice, tone and emotion.| Laura Onita / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M operating profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; its market cap is down ~£750M — UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool — The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
More: US Department of Justice, The Record, BleepingComputer, The Verge, TechCrunch, GovTech, CyberInsider, Cyber Security News, and Infosecurity
X: @fbiboston and @dmanews1
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs — The eight-building Texas project is a central piece of OpenAI's efforts to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for computing power
More: Crunchbase News, The Decoder, Benzinga, and Wall Street Pit
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Google expands its “sovereign cloud” options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cybersecurity protections to European clients — Tech giant offers additional data security protections in EU as local customers express concern over reliance on US tech
Forums: r/eutech and r/degoogle
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Google rolls out Jules, its asynchronous coding agent unveiled in December 2024, in public beta for free with usage limits and will share pricing after the beta — Vibe coding and the growth of AI-powered coding platforms gave rise to yet another battleground among tech companies.| CNBC: |
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, Moneycontrol, Financial Express, The Verge, VentureBeat, HotHardware, Android Developers Blog, IndieWire, Silicon Republic, GSMArena.com, KnowTechie, The Hans India, AIN, The Economic Times, Coinpaper, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and The Verge
X: @mattshumer_, @skirano, @googledeepmind, @martinnebelong, @nearcyan, @emollick, @nearcyan, @sherveen, @mrjasonchoi, @ishansharma7390, @cokanestudio, @maxescu, @arikuschnir, @emollick, @googledeepmind, @fofrai, @pizza_later, @google, @angrytomtweets, @teodor_io, @swyx, @mattvidpro, @ednewtonrex, @saboo_shubham_, @google, @kylebrussell, and @mkbhd. LinkedIn: Jeff Chang
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