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A US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled  —  The federal government struck a settlement with Live Nation in March, requiring Ticketmaster to divest up to 13 amphitheaters …
Bloomberg:
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue  —  Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
The Information:
Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 staff from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri  —  Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected …
Timmy Shen / The Block:
X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada  —  Quick Take  — Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the team has launched the “Cashtags” feature, which enables users to browse stock …
Bryce Elder / Financial Times:
Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+  —  Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.
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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more  —  “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it”
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks  —  Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the “Project Moonlight” moniker that could do tasks for you by tapping different Adobe apps …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more  —  Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion from Android and iOS.  —  This “native desktop experience” is launched via an Option + Space keyboard shortcut.
Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review:
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone.
Forums: r/technews
Nikkei Asia:
Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025 and Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B  —  TAIPEI — China's imports of chipmaking equipment from Malaysia and Singapore rose sharply in 2025 to surpass those from the U.S. …
Rina Chandran / Rest of World:
Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances  —  Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.
Swathi Moorthy / The Economic Times:
Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled  —  While ‘Kruti’ was not accessible via its direct website, kruti.ai, which showed a “site not found” error, users accessing …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000  —  After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post:
Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies  —  Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein
Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling  —  The Ohio Casino Control Commission has fined online prediction market Kalshi millions of dollars for illegal operation in the state.
David McCabe / New York Times:
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers  —  WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.
Jason Parham / Wired:
X users complain that the latest crackdown on bots purged secret accounts they had used for years to watch and curate their favorite porn  —  The platform's large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who've spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts.

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Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg:
QVC Group, owner of TV shopping channels QVC and HSN, files for bankruptcy as part of a plan to cut more than $5B in debt; shares closed down 69% on Thursday

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Notus will rename itself The Star and relaunch in early June as it adds local news and sports coverage; source: Robert Allbritton will add ~$30M to its funding

Ryan Glasspiegel / Front Office Sports:
Sources: the NFL and YouTube are in advanced talks for a five-game package; deal price and duration were not immediately known

More News

Chris Metinko / Axios:
NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A
Molly Taft / Wired:
The US EIA plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, per an April 9 letter to Senators Warren and Hawley
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET:
Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% message daily on Snapchat, 37% say TikTok impacts sleep

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Nvidia Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app, which requires showing ID, to shield kids from harmful content, setting the standard for verification tech
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability
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