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June 2, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs backing LoveFrom in 2019, and more  —  After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation”  —  Companies face fines of up to 10% their worldwide annual turnover if the EU decides they are flouting its Digital Markets Act
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools  —  AI-powered advertising is part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the company's future  —  Meta Platforms is betting that automation is the future of ads.
Financial Times:
Sources: xAI is launching a $300M secondary stock offering that values the group at $113B, allowing staff to sell shares to new investors  —  Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X  —  Tabby Kinder, George Hammond and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco, and Ivan Levingston in London
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs  —  Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though. … Among smart TVs, streaming sticks …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Samsung is nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity, preload Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, add Perplexity search to Samsung's browser, and more  —  The two companies are in talks to preload Perplexity's app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices and integrate …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M  —  The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
Emily Mullin / Wired:
Paradromics says it successfully tested its Connexus brain implant, which encodes memory, in a patient during epilepsy surgery, a first for the Neuralink rival  —  Paradromics, a brain-computer interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X aims to roll out an “XChat” messaging feature “with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file” to all users this week  —  Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat …
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, ending its July 2024 probe  —  European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …

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