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| 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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| 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 — Snap Inc. is laying off roughly 1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, part of an effort by Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel …
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| NBC News: |
A jury finds that 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 …
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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”
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control — The company says it's the most natural and expressive voice output it has shipped to date. The big new feature is audio tags … | The Information: |
Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp — Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant …
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Digital Trends
| 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 — ZDNET's key takeaways — Cal is reluctantly moving away from open source for security. — This move isn't about Mythos, but risks from modern AI tools.
More: The New Stack and Implicator.ai
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| 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.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block AI rivals — Meta Platforms Inc. has been threatened with an interim European Union ban on policies that allegedly block rival AI firms … | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B — Accel, the venture capital firm that's backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity …
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services — Monarch Tractor's assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business … | 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 …
More: TechCrunch. X: @rmac18, @freddy_brewster, @rmac18, @thestalwart, @katienotopoulos, @sigallagher, @tysonbrody, @objectionupdate, and @alexrkonrad
Bluesky: @foiaball.com, @rowyourbot, @jamesrball.com, @wowbaggert, @0kultra, and @parkermolloy.com
| Rachel Scharf / Billboard: |
A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least for now, the court judgment is largely a symbolic victory, as no one has identified the anonymous internet users behind Anna's Archive.| 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 — The European Union has unveiled an app to confirm users' age online, setting the standard for verification technology … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €34B-€39B to €36B-€40B — ASML stock fell 6% on Wednesday despite raising its sales forecast for 2026 and beating first-quarter revenue and profit expectations.
More: Bloomberg, ASML, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Implicator.ai, Motley Fool, Proactive, Reuters, and Financial Times
| Molly Taft / Wired: |
The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use — In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.| 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.| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration — Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September.| 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 — Auctor, a startup helping companies adopt new software, raised $20 million in a combined seed and Series A, CEO William Sun tells Axios Pro first.
More: Unite.AI, Sequoia Capital, The Next Web, and Forbes
X: @auctor_ai, @hankcouture, @julienbek, @mtthewblckburn, @auctor_ai, and @sarahyuui
| 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 — Jane Street Group, a trading firm, has taken an additional $1 billion stake in AI cloud services provider CoreWeave Inc. and plans …
More: MarketWatch, CoreWeave, TheEnergyMag, Reuters, Benzinga, New Jersey Business Magazine, Pulse 2.0, Quartz, Blockonomi, and Forbes
| 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 — Teens largely turn to TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for fun and connection. But experiences around messaging, screen time and cyberbullying vary.
More: Engadget, Tubefilter, Social Media Today, Pew Research Center, Business Insider, and Mashable
LinkedIn: Monica R. Anderson and Amanda Lenhart
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages — In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.
More: Spotify, CNET, Engadget, Android Central, WeRSM, Android Police, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Good e-Reader, Mashable, and BOOK RIOT. Forums: r/books
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Zengo, a crypto wallet provider, as the trading and investment platform expands its reach into decentralized finance.Sponsor Posts
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