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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google services, AWS, Spotify, Cloudflare, and other services appear to be in a partial outage, according to Downdetector — If you're struggling with Google services right now, you're not alone as it appears that a partial outage is affecting many of the company's various apps and services.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Chime opened at $43 in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, after selling shares at $27 each in an IPO in which the neobank raised $700M and was valued at $11.6B — Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of online banking services sold shares in an IPO that valued the company at $11.6 billion.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones, and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models — It's working with the US National Hurricane Center to test out its new AI-based tropical cyclone model.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long — Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coinbase announces its first branded credit card, in partnership with American Express, for Coinbase One US users, and creates a lower-cost Basic subscription — Coinbase on Thursday introduced its first branded credit card in partnership with American Express.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to prevent it from advertising on Meta apps; in January, 90% of its traffic came from Meta — As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and “strengthening” its enforcement.
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| Savyata Mishra / Reuters: |
Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business — Mattel (MAT.O) has teamed up with OpenAI to develop toys and games with artificial intelligence, and expects to launch … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI — Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following …
More: Business Insider and AIwire
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings — Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push … | Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA ends the 320+ day video game performers strike after reaching a tentative new Interactive Media Agreement contract with the major video game companies — The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests — An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure … | Bloomberg: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow overall tech advances and harm consumers and companies — “If you narrow access to to technology and you force other ecosystems to grow up, it's not good,” Haas said Thursday in an interview … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads, claiming up to 4x AI compute performance and 35x inference gains over the prior-gen MI300X — More power consumption equals lower TCO. — AMD unveiled its new MI350X and MI355X GPUs for AI workloads here at its Advancing AI 2025 event … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
A Citizen Lab report finds that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Paragon spyware; Apple fixed the zero-day used in the spyware in February — Researchers revealed on Thursday that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with spyware made by Paragon.
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on “F1 the Movie” is about more than selling iPhones — Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply — Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.
More: Gemini, Gemini, Inside Bitcoins, Benzinga, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, Blockworks, and CoinDesk
| New York Times: |
Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content — The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing … | Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end — Lyft is ramping up its ad business with new formats, the ride-hailing company exclusively tells Axios.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update — Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.| New York Times: |
Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M — Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.| CoinDesk: |
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants — The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
More: The Block, Fortune, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, and Motley Fool
| CNN: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China — Chipmaker Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts following the imposition of tough US restrictions …
More: Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Cryptopolitan, and Forbes
| MIT Technology Review: |
How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed — This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
The UK passes the Data (Use and Access) Bill, criticized by creatives, without an amendment to force companies to declare using copyrighted material to train AI — A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed.| Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 — Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company's valuation to $1.25 billion.
More: Gecko Robotics, SiliconANGLE, Pittsburgh Business Journal, The Robot Report, and Technical.ly. LinkedIn: Stefani Pashman
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which uses quantum-inspired AI model compression tech to shrink LLMs by up to 95%, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients — Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million …
More: FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Proactive, The Quantum Insider, EU-Startups, WinBuzzer, HPCwire, insideAI News, and SiliconANGLE. LinkedIn: Angelo Del Priore
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
TollBit: traffic from RAG bots, which scrape information in real time, to 266 websites, half of which are from news outlets, grew 49% from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025 — As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. — Summary4Sponsor Posts
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