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Dylan Butts / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profit, beating estimates and hitting …
Wall Street Journal:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts  —  Taiwan company expects revenue to grow by more than 30% and doesn't see material disruptions to supply chain
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 …
NBC News:
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 …
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 …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks  —  Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes  —  All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
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”
Emily Zemler / The Wrap:
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M  —  “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film
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.
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more  —  The technologist and investor argues recent progress in AI is an industrial revolution-scale event but warns the ability …
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 …
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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 …
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific  —  German agentic artificial intelligence startup Synera GmbH today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to scale …
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.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Paramount shareholder lawsuit claims David and Larry Ellison made an illegal deal with Trump in trade for approval of the WBD merger, promising to revamp CNN

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brendan Carr proposes repealing the national ownership cap, which restricts amassing TV stations that cover more than 39% of households, and sets an Aug. 6 vote

Corey G. Johnson / ProPublica:
Ethics disclosures show 7 out of 10 FCC commissioners since 2016 have accepted Kennedy Center tickets worth thousands courtesy of CBS or its parent company

More News

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
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
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
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

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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
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
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
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%+
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