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| Bloomberg: |
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid — Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
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| Politico: |
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more — The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNET: |
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 — In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
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Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January — We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
More: Digital Trends, The A.V. Club, Simon Owens's Media Newsletter, and GovTech
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord — Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
More: Claude, VentureBeat, GitHub, XDA Developers, MacStories, and India Today
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| Bill Ready / Time: |
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences — When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, The Independent, and Mashable
LinkedIn: Bill Ready, Cailin Crockett, Ryan Fujiu, and Allison McConeghy
Forums: r/sanfrancisco, r/cybersecurity, and r/privacy
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more — Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web.| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 provides “the foundation” for Cursor's Composer 2 model and that Cursor accesses Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks AI — Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
| Associated Press: |
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply … | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge.
More: SiliconANGLE. Bluesky: @dollspace.gay. Forums: r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/technews
| DeepDelver: |
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence — How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
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Forums: Hacker News and r/soc2
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks — It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others. — Learn more.
More: BleepingComputer, Internet Crime Complaint …, Reuters, Washington Examiner, and Fox News
X: @kasparov63, @themainewonk, @seancasten, and @fbidirectorkash
| Arthur Mensch / Financial Times: |
Mistral's CEO proposes a revenue-based levy for AI model providers in the EU, to be invested “in new content creation and supporting Europe's cultural sectors” — A revenue-based charge would protect the livelihoods of copyright holders and bring legal certainty
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China — Super Micro Computer said Friday that Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker's board …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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LinkedIn: Jon Stevens and Matthew Kimball
Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @jordannovet.cnbc.com
Forums: r/StockMarket, r/technology, r/news, r/Taiwanese, r/espionage, r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, and r/SMCIDiscussion
| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers — The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
More: Digit. X: @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @edandersen, @levie, @rahll, @dharmeshba, @neogoose_btw, @gergelyorosz, @kylegawley, @tftc21, and @aravsrinivas. Bluesky: @lorak
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations — A judge ordered Kalshi to immediately halt sports and election contracts in the state, intensifying a growing regulatory battle over prediction markets.
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Gizmodo, Reuters, Front Office Sports, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, The Block, and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bluesky: @moreperfectunion and @joshsternberg.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Fauxmoi, r/Nevada, and r/politics
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war — The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that's impossible.| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military — Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary …
Forums: r/technology and r/news
| Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal — Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing the billionaire OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing …
More: Bloomberg Law and Business Insider
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible — A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a Federal Trade Commission order barring TurboTax maker Intuit (INTU.O) … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4 — Roblox Corp. will take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games as part of a major overhaul of its advertising policies.
More: Reuters, Tubefilter, GamesBeat, and Blockonomi
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021 — Savvy Games Group has agreed to buy the Moonton studio from ByteDance Ltd. as the Saudi Arabian firm builds up its mobile gaming assets.
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