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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
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Patently Apple, Neowin, iPhone in Canada, Forbes, Fortune, Spyglass, Apple Must, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and Benzinga
| 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
More: Axios, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Reuters, iPhone in Canada, New York Post, WebProNews, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacRumors, WinBuzzer, 9to5Mac, iClarified, and MacTech.com
| 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.
More: Investor's Business Daily, PCMag, Reuters, WebProNews, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance, Neowin, Adweek, WinBuzzer, Quartz, and TheCable. Bluesky: @hypervisible
| 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
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Irish Times, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @conorsen and @niedermeyer.online
| 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, PCWorld, AFTVnews, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, and Pocket-lint
Mastodon: @mookie@wantstoruletheworld …. Forums: r/apple, r/technews, r/privacy, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Android Central, Cautious Optimism, Mashable, Tech.co, The Information, Android Police, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, Analytics India Magazine, PhoneArena, Fortune, Radio Free Mobile, PCMag, TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, Patently Apple, TechIssuesToday.com, Business Today, NDTV Profit, KED Global, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, Business Standard, Sam Lover, Neowin, SamMobile, Financial Express, SammyGuru, Tech in Asia, Blockchain.News, Cryptopolitan, and DigiTimes
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski. X: @testingcatalog, @joshuatopolsky, @maxwinebach, and @markgurman. Forums: r/Android
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
A UK government trial of 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft Copilot for three months found that they saved 26 minutes per day on average, or two weeks per year — Staff used Microsoft's Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings — Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest …
More: GeekWire, Windows Central, GOV.UK, ComputerWeekly.com, and Microsoft
| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Paradromics inserted its Connexus brain implant in a patient and removed it after ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, 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.
More: Austin Business Journal, Gizmodo, TechEBlog, Reuters, Quartz, Bloomberg, CNBC, and MassDevice. Bluesky: @emilymullin
| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns — Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients' money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.
Bluesky: @ekp
| 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 … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders — Latest move comes as tech giant is attacked on multiple legal fronts that threaten its break-up
More: Reuters, AppleInsider, Bloomberg Law, TipRanks Financial, and MarketWatch
| 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 …
More: Gizmodo, Adweek, ZyCrypto, iPhone in Canada, CryptoRank, The Hans India, WinBuzzer, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoPotato, Mashable, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin Insider, CoinDesk, Digit, Benzinga, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, The Independent, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Times, and CoinGape. Bluesky: @3fecta
| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, pretax profit up 335% YoY to £60.5M, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and users up 25% YoY to 12.2M — Monzo reported revenue above 1 billion pounds ($1.35 billion) for the first time and a sharp rise in annual profit …
More: Forbes, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, Bloomberg, Monzo, Tech.eu, The Times, The Independent, Tech in Asia, Finextra, and UKTN
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell ~26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, valuing it a $10.3B to $11.1B; co-founders Chris Britt and Ryan King each own 4% to 5% — Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion …
More: TechCrunch, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, The Crypto Times, and Reuters
X: @jrichlive, @danprimack, and @mikulaja
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