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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A US judge seated a nine-person jury in the Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance — The nine-person jury was seated on Monday in the high-stakes legal battle between longtime friends turned rivals Elon Musk …
More: Reuters, Gizmodo, The Guardian, Business Today, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Hans India, Implicator.ai, MIT Technology Review, Associated Press, The Hill, The Verge, and The Information
X: @elonmusk, @openainewsroom, @katiemiller, @suchenzang, @elonmusk, @yv_thorne, @xfreeze, @mikeisaac, @ceodonovan, @brianroemmele, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @katiemiller, @marionawfal, @elonmusk, @wallstreetapes, @paranoidream, @cb_doge, and @dvorahfr
Bluesky: @darakerr, @lorak, and @justinhendrix
| Wired: |
Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman were spotted in the security line inside the courthouse this morning, but Elon Musk was nowhere to be found.
More: The Verge, New York Times, CNN, CNBC, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Courthouse News Service, Local News Matters, The Information, and NBC News
X: @zeffmax, @hadas_gold, @zeffmax, @jordanuhl, @hadas_gold, and @zeffmax
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns — The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country — Meta Platforms is preparing …
More: Bloomberg Law, Silicon Republic, The Information, Implicator.ai, Reuters, Global Times, The Business Times, CNBC, Financial Times, The Next Web, Livemint, DigiTimes, Fortune India, Nikkei Asia, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and New York Times
X: @niubi, @loyndsview, @niubi, @niubi, @chrisrmcguire, @meghanbobrowsky, and @villi
Forums: r/China_irl and r/China
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 — The company's CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth
More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Fortune, Proactive, Digit, New York Times, MarketWatch, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, The Decoder, ZeroHedge News, CoinDesk, and Reuters
X: @edludlow, @negligible_cap, @rihardjarc, @pkafka, @pkafka, @mbgilroy, @ns123abc, @appyg99, @zerohedge, @benfritz, @berber_jin1, @negligible_cap, @edzitron, @firstadopter, @scmallaby, @annmarie, @bmlascolea, @oguzerkan, @edzitron, @garymarcus, @edzitron, @garymarcus, @beffjezos, @negligible_cap, @gergelyorosz, @boringbiz_, @howardlindzon, @martinshkreli, @zerohedge, and @shaughnessy119
Bluesky: @reckless, @tyleraking.com, @patigallardo, and @daniloc.xyz. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/Economics, r/wallstreetbets, r/StockMarket, and r/BetterOffline
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models on classified work …
More: The Verge, The Next Web, Reuters, Türkiye Today, crypto.news, Blockonomi, The Sun Malaysia, TRT World, COINOTAG, and Daily Sabah
X: @erinkwoo, @erinkwoo, @tim_hua_, and @bradrcarson
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
More: The Verge, Business Insider, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Financial Times, The Decoder, Reuters, Bloomberg, Semafor, Coinpaper, Jerusalem Post, Crypto Briefing, People Matters, SiliconANGLE, Mobile World Live, and Newsmax
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/google
| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
X: @mariorod1, @nicoloboschi, @auchenberg, @glcst, @peer_rich, @mariorod1, @paularambles, @mrahmadawais, @jpschroeder, @hsvsphere, @mrahmadawais, @hsvsphere, @0x45o, @theo, @bruvimtired, @ryanvogel, and @chshersh
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
More: InfoWorld, Game Developer, The GitHub Blog, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, ITPro, The Register, Hello China Tech, GitHub, and TestingCatalog
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance — Chinese tech giant Tencent's latest AI model has generated positive reviews from developers. But the company probably owes some of that success to Anthropic.
More: Claude
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.
More: Search Engine Land, PCMag, The Decoder, Android Authority, Digit, Digital Trends, Phandroid, Engadget, and Korea Joongang Daily. X: @glenngabe
| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
More: AI on the Internet, The Decoder, and Wired
Bluesky: @damonberes.com, @knibbs, @mjgault, and @jasonkoebler. Mastodon: @rom@social.lol. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Many US rural communities oppose adding AI infrastructure; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing data centers are in urban areas — Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House In Tazewell County … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple says iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS developers can offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment from May, except in the US and Singapore — Apple today announced the launch of a new subscription option for App Store developers: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.| Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years — Layoffs might lift some efficiency measures, but there are other considerations — Tech companies are rushing to trade their people for more chips.| talkie: |
AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries — Why vintage language models? — Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?
More: talkie, talkie on GitHub, talkie on Hugging Face, talkie on Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, MarkTechPost, and talkie on Hugging Face
X: @bradrcarson, @davidduvenaud, @pmarca, @quantian1, @repligate, @2ndworldmusic, @willccbb, @trueslazac, @max_paperclips, @sauers_, @qiaochuyuan, @status_effects, @allgarbled, @platounderwater, @itsandrewgao, @anjneymidha, @gleech, @pmarca, @davidduvenaud, @miles_brundage, @geoffreyirving, @status_effects, @status_effects, @trollaccou94432, @souljagoyteller, @status_effects, @freed_dfilan, and @deredleritt3r
Bluesky: @nomads, @emollick, @jdp.extropian.net, and @tedunderwood.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents — Six months ago, while working on an internal productivity tool, our team made a controversial (at the time) decision: we'd build our repo with no human-written code.
More: InfoWorld, Gizmodo, GitHub, Digit, and Help Net Security
Bluesky: @maggieappleton.com and @lizthegrey.com
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.53B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT drops 10%+ — Spotify Technology SA, the music streaming leader, reported results that underwhelmed Wall Street, forecasting operating income … | Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: |
FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, with $794M originating on Facebook; WhatsApp and Instagram were a “distant” second and third — Love, investments, and shopping scams were the most common — Social media scams caused Americans to lose $2.1 billion in 2025 …
More: Federal Trade Commission, CNET, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, Tech Times, The Next Web, Baller Alert, and PYMNTS.com. X: @ftc
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic “claw” tasks — Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable … | Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: |
Leaked renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later in 2026, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses — Add Android Headlines as a preferred source on Google — Samsung's next Android XR product is reportedly a pair of smart glasses codenamed …
More: Tech Advisor, T3, Road to VR, Android Authority, The Verge, YouTube, Phandroid, Digit, The Indian Express, Trusted Reviews, Gizmodo, Engadget, Stuff, Tom's Guide, Notebookcheck, iPhone in Canada, Android Central, Digital Trends, Wccftech, SammyGuru, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Sammy Fans, Android Authority, and SamMobile
X: @onleaks, @parkerortolani, @sondesix, @sondesix, @yabhishekhd, and @idesigner3d
| Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: |
Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's co-founder on why only two consumer apps broke through in 15 years, how every major Snapchat feature was cloned … | Josh Gerben / Gerben IP: |
Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management files applications to trademark the singer's image and “sound marks”, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications to protect her voice and image. — The filings, made on April 24 …
More: Moneycontrol, Variety, Music Ally, Daily Star, DNYUZ, TechRadar, Music Business Worldwide, CNN, Mashable, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, FemaleFirst, IGN, Digit, BMI, Benzinga, CNET, The Guardian, Mediaweek, The A.V. Club, Semafor, Vulture, NBC News, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, BBC, and The Wrap
| The Guardian: |
Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme
More: Reuters, MediaNama, Agence France-Presse, Newser, The Next Web, Türkiye Today, Neowin, Press Gazette, TV Blackbox, BMI, France 24, The Register, B&T, and Mumbrella
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta — WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.Sponsor Posts
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