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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 … | 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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| 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
| 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.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, Gizmodo, PCMag, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, Thurrott, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Guide, The Verge, PCWorld, PCWorld, The Verge, Pureinfotech, Digital Trends, Neowin, Windows Latest, and MakeUseOf
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Mastodon: @matt@toot.cafe and @JenMsft@mastodon.social
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay and r/technology
| 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, Simon Owens's Media Newsletter, GovTech, and The A.V. Club
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Mastodon: @grigs@front-end.social, @munin@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@cosocial.ca, and @stefan@stefanbohacek.online. Forums: r/technology
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China; SMCI drops 30%+ — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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LinkedIn: Jon Stevens and Matthew Kimball
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| 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.
More: The Next Web and WordPress.com News
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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, Mashable, Reuters, and The Independent
LinkedIn: Ryan Fujiu, Cailin Crockett, Allison McConeghy, and Bill Ready
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/privacy
| 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, XDA Developers, GitHub, MacStories, and India Today
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| 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.| 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
| 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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LinkedIn: Jan Langrehr and Mike Kim
Bluesky: @regimecpa, @alisonbuki, and @moll.dev
Forums: Hacker News and r/soc2
| 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 … | @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.
| 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: Business Insider and Digit
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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, Decrypt, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, The Block, Bloomberg Law, Front Office Sports, Bitcoin News, Reuters, and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bluesky: @moreperfectunion and @joshsternberg.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Fauxmoi, r/Nevada, and r/politics
| Reuters: |
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 — India's Zetwerk is preparing to confidentially file draft papers for an initial public offering within the next one to two weeks …
More: Inc42
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.
More: Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love, and Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love
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Forums: r/SillyTavernAI, r/technology, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.
More: Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Engadget, Agence France-Presse, Kotaku, TechRaptor, PocketGamer.biz, and Game Developer
| 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: Tubefilter, Reuters, and Blockonomi
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